We mourn our craft
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data
Free apartment cleanings, exoskeletons, 100 robots in a warehouse...
4946 The Alpha Dogs 2026 CAD and Documentation Release
After a successful FIRST Rebuilt Season, Team 4946, The Alpha Dogs, is proud to present our engineering report, business plan, and robot CAD. Our engineering report outlines the decision-making process taken to get to the robot design, optimization of electrical systems, and programming concepts. Public Version of 2026 Engineering Report.pdf (9.0 MB) Our business plan outlines our sponsorship interactions, short and long-term planning, and community outreach initiatives. Public Version of 20...
one with the machine
vannever bush, joseph licklider, chatgpt, and the dream of the cyborg
Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1 | MarshallBrain.com
Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17. It seemed like such a simple thing at the time, but May 17 marked a pivotal moment in human history.
Why We Need the Jetsons and Solarpunk
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Peter Thiel’s famous lament captures the disappointment of those of us raised on mid-20th-century technological optimism.
Pluralistic: “Rights for robots” and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
While the AI bubble is primarily a material phenomenon (driven by the calculation that bosses are easy marks for a sales pitch that sees them replacing workers with software), there is an inescapable ideological component to it: the desire for a world without people in it:
Three Laws of Robotics
The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, which were to be followed by robots in several of his stories. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although similar restrictions had been implied in earlier stories.
Photos: Hundreds protest at Open AI, Anthropic offices in San Francisco
Protesters met in front of OpenAI's headquarters in Mission Bay before marching to the offices of Anthropic and Google DeepMind.
Menlo Research
Menlo Research is an Applied R&D Lab building Asimov, an open platform to enable the next billion robots.
"[Man] aspires to make robots as one of the greatest achievements of his technical mind, and some specialists assure us that the robot will hardly be distinguished from living men. This achievement will not seem so astonishing when man himself is hardly distinguishable from a robot." - Erich Fromm
