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Evan Ackerman

Oklahoma City

Senior Editor at IEEE Spectrum

Senior editor at @IEEESpectrum. I hug robots.

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  • 2 weeks ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

  • 3 weeks ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

  • 3 weeks ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

    Being long and skinny and wiggly is a strategy that’s been wildly successful for animals, ever since there have been animals, more or less. Roboticists, eternally jealous of biology, have taken notice of this, and have spent decades trying to build robotic versions of snakes, salamanders, worms, and more.

  • 3 weeks ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman

    The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is maknig right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories.

  • 3 weeks ago | evdriven.com | Evan Ackerman

    The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is making right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories.

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Evan Ackerman
Evan Ackerman @BotJunkie
12 Nov 24

Back on Twitter for just a sec to share this amazing visual story on @IEEESpectrum about how we might build the humanoid robot of our dreams: https://t.co/HUp0dMhPai

Evan Ackerman
Evan Ackerman @BotJunkie
21 Sep 24

Finally, A Flying Car(t): Where’s your flying car? I’m sorry to say that I have no idea. But here’s something that is somewhat similar, in that it flies, transports things, and has “car” in the name: it’s a flying cart, called the Palletrone… https://t.co/zdpO88f5Q5 https://t.co/y9Wo45X6PC

Evan Ackerman
Evan Ackerman @BotJunkie
20 Sep 24

Video Friday: Zipline Delivers: Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your… https://t.co/y42JMy3Juu https://t.co/6DpPgFbzDY