New Metropolis

Working with our little mechanical buddies

Late in the last decade, when I was a senior editor at Control Engineering magazine, one of the biggest worries in the robotics world was safety. Robots were viewed like the proverbial bull in a china shop. Whether fixed or mobile, the things were considered big, clumsy and dumb as a box of rocks. They had no sense of what was going on around them, so any time a human blundered into their work are ...... Read More