Blog 3 articles
Physical work, robots, and the long, long road between a slick demo video and a wet Tuesday on a building site.
Hands and machines 13 min read
In India, factory and home workers now wear head cameras so robots can learn what their hands do. Why robots need the footage, how much they would need, and which jobs it points at.
Hands and machines 4 min read
A production line and a plumber under a sink are both "hands-on", and a robot would find one far harder than the other. The measure that tells them apart, and what it still can't say.
Hands and machines 4 min read
In 1988 a roboticist noticed the hard things were easy for computers and the easy things were hard. Nearly forty years on it still explains a lot of the numbers here, with one big asterisk.
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