Dec 4, 2023·edited Dec 4, 2023Liked by Sean Dotson
Good article, Sean! I love the story. Agility started up in my hometown with engineers from Bill Smart's robot engineering program at Oregon State. Humanoid robots are the rage because BD finally proved how they can work. MIT / Vecna developed "BEAR" 20 years ago (Daniel Theobald's company). Mankind always wanted a look-alike robot so we can feel God-like (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was an early example; Gollum from the Dark Ages, which became "orcs" in Tolkien's writing is another). Now we can finally do that. And so a millennia old thirst is quenched.
Good article, Sean! I love the story. Agility started up in my hometown with engineers from Bill Smart's robot engineering program at Oregon State. Humanoid robots are the rage because BD finally proved how they can work. MIT / Vecna developed "BEAR" 20 years ago (Daniel Theobald's company). Mankind always wanted a look-alike robot so we can feel God-like (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was an early example; Gollum from the Dark Ages, which became "orcs" in Tolkien's writing is another). Now we can finally do that. And so a millennia old thirst is quenched.