Blog
Notes on robots, products, and building things.
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Humanoid Robots are the Wrong Answer to the Right Problem
We all have a million things in our lives that we’d rather not have to deal with. From keeping up with emails, to countless chores around the house, there ar…
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We Aren’t Going to See General Purpose Robotics, and Here’s Why
I’ve always had a fascination with Disney’s Fantasia. Of course I wasn’t alive when it came out in 1940, but I’ve watched it countless times and dreamed of a…
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Augmented Reality Robotics
Mars rovers and your smartphone have the same problem: figuring out where they are without GPS.
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3 Ways We’ll All Be Shopping with Robots
The “death of retail” is greatly exaggerated and it’s actually an area ripe for disruption. There’s just something inherently human about shopping in person …
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Differentiating in Point to Point Mobility
Robot arms have always garnered attention for being used in manufacturing, but there’s an often overlooked segment regarding robots that simply move from poi…
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Exclusive Look Inside TickTock’s Consumer Robot Product Explorations
We started TickTock in March 2017, knowing that robotics was about to have a breakthrough, and it was going to start with mobility.
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Why an “Echo Show on Wheels” makes sense for Amazon
Bloomberg claiming that Amazon is working on a secret home robot. People keep sending me the link and asking “what do you think Amazon’s robot is going to do”?