Michael Rand
MSEE GT, Founder/CoFounder of Future Networks, Aretta Communications, SIP.US, SIPTrunk.com, Telvero telecommunications companies. Interests lie in communications, home automation, autonomous control systems, SCUBA diving, and fast cars.
17 articles
This article examines the specific hardware and logic that allow a machine to look at a sock and decide whether to vacuum it, avoid it, or ask for help.
Discover the "invisible eyes" that prevent your robots from becoming a pile of floor-scrapings from falling over.
It can be sad to witness the architectural indignity: a thousand-dollar robot, a marvel of silicon and sensors, currently vibrating pathetically against the leg...
To confidently bring a robot into the sanctuary of the home, it needs to avoid breaking our household items.
We often assume robots see the world the way we do, through a pair of high-definition biological lenses. The reality is much stranger.