Archive - General Robots

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)

Jun 10 •

March 2025

Correct vs Good

Part 2: Can we have it both ways?

Mar 26 •

February 2025

Correct vs Good

What's the difference?

Feb 11 •

May 2024

Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs

Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2

May 21, 2024 •

What's With All the Humanoid Robots?

If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why…

May 7, 2024 •

March 2024

The Mythical Non-Roboticist

What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea…

Mar 14, 2024 •

July 2023

June 2023

Dimension Hopper Part 1

2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation

Jun 12, 2023 •

May 2023

When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that everything they do is Fully General Purpose And Future…

May 2, 2023 •

March 2023

Nailing the Demo

So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9. If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC…

Mar 27, 2023 •

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