Cool robot oriented mags & links

Posted by pogo on April 17, 2008, 7:57 pm

I picked up the latest edition of Popular Science yesterday which has a nice
article on "The Real Iron Man" - the exoskeleton suit
being developed by Sarcos. Here's a link to the online version:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

Also, I've been getting this trade magazine for a while now, and it always has
interesting gizmos & new product announcements -
and discusses "mechatronics" frequently: http://www.designnews.com/ I like the
print mag more than the web site.

Enjoy!
JCD

Posted by Gordon McComb on April 18, 2008, 4:59 pm

pogo wrote:

>
> I picked up the latest edition of Popular Science yesterday which has a nice

article on "The Real Iron Man" - the exoskeleton suit

> being developed by Sarcos. Here's a link to the online version:
> http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

I saw this as well last night when I picked up PS at the local store. I
was also gratified to see the magazine is going back to more of its old
roots. For a time it had an identity crisis, and wasn't like the
magazine I knew in my youth - or wrote for in the 80s.

Though I didn't pick it up, there was a special Scientific American
issue just on robotics. Makes you wonder why there's all this interest
all of a sudden...

-- Gordon

Posted by pogo on April 18, 2008, 6:55 pm

> pogo wrote:

>> I picked up the latest edition of Popular Science yesterday which has a nice

article on "The Real Iron Man" - the exoskeleton

>> suit
>> being developed by Sarcos. Here's a link to the online version:
>> http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

> I saw this as well last night when I picked up PS at the local store. I
> was also gratified to see the magazine is going back to more of its old
> roots. For a time it had an identity crisis, and wasn't like the
> magazine I knew in my youth - or wrote for in the 80s.
> Though I didn't pick it up, there was a special Scientific American
> issue just on robotics. Makes you wonder why there's all this interest
> all of a sudden...

> -- Gordon

Yeah I picked up a copy of that Scientific American myself (I assume it's the
same one). Turned out to be mostly reprints but
still a good diversion for something to read when away from the house/office,
anyway.

Later !
JCD

Posted by BRW on April 21, 2008, 3:17 pm

> Though I didn't pick it up, there was a special Scientific American
> issue just on robotics. Makes you wonder why there's all this interest
> all of a sudden...
> -- Gordon

I was wondering the same thing myself. Some have predicted that we
are in the "Steve Wozniak working in the garage" phase of personal
robotics, and it's about to take off like a rocket. It does seem
likely to me. Perhaps iRobot is the Apple Computer of our time.

BRW

Posted by Gordon McComb on April 21, 2008, 4:15 pm

BRW wrote:

> I was wondering the same thing myself. Some have predicted that we
> are in the "Steve Wozniak working in the garage" phase of personal
> robotics, and it's about to take off like a rocket. It does seem
> likely to me. Perhaps iRobot is the Apple Computer of our time.

We've had this period come and go a couple times since Apple II days.
Last one peaked at about 1999 or 2000. For whatever reason it never
quite catches on for robotics as it did for computers. The mechanics are
still pretty expensive, and not as subject to Moore's Law as silicon.

Let's see if the interest can be rekindled, and hope it will last more
than a couple of years, and will bring with it some definite movement in
the adoptation of robotics in home and small industry (rather than just
research).

-- Gordon

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