Brains, Bots and Bodies

Michael Sean Wright of Nice Fish Films recorded a podcast with me today. Billed as “a discussion with really big thinkers”, we talked about The Singularity Summit and some of my favorite emerging technologies. You can hear the podcast below.

On Friday, October 24th, SciVestor and The Singularity Institute present the Emerging Technologies Workshop. This event is sold out, and is being held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The day’s agenda follows:
Schedule
8:30am Doors open
9:00am [...]

January 1st, 2008 was the first day for SciVestor, my research and consulting firm focused on understanding emerging technologies that might change the world. We’ve accomplished a lot in the last 9 months, but I am most excited about our first upcoming event.
On Friday, October 24th, SciVestor and The Singularity Institute present the [...]

Rodney Brooks had it right in his 1991 paper “Intelligence without Reason.”  His approach to Artificial Intelligence is based an emergence of behaviors not explicitly programmed into a system.  Instead, a hierarchy of discrete behaviors is organized in such a way that higher-level behaviors subsume the resources required by lower-priority behaviors when appropriate conditions are [...]

Virtex Assembly is a high tech circuit board assembly firm headquartered in Austin, Texas.  Founder and CEO Brad Heath sat down with SciVestor to discuss how Virtex is going to change the world, why Moore’s Law is driving automation gains, and why the business community cares about what Virtex is doing.

Robotics Trends has just announced the line up for the Robo Development Conference and Expo ‘08, to be held November 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.  SciVestor Executive Director, and RobotCentral contributor Jonas Lamis has been named as a Featured Speaker for the event.  Details are available here.

Intelligent Sensor Technologies 2010 to 2020: Impact [...]

Chetan Kapoor is a roboticist at The University of Texas and CEO of Agile Planet.  We spoke about how his firm’s control software might change the world in the years ahead, what is driving robotics growth, and why business should take note.

SciVestor sat down with Dewey Gaedcke, Founder and CEO of Minggl.com.  He discusses the future of the social grid, how Moore’s Law is powering Web 2.0, and why companies and investors should care about Minggl.

SciVestor spoke with Dan Kara, CEO of Robotics Trends. Robotics Trends is an events and research firm focused on the robotics industry. They run the RoboBusiness and RoboDevelopment events. He discusses the rise of autonomy, the future of the robotics industry, and offers advice to the investment community.

SciVestor sat down with Matt Mason, Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He discusses how the Institute might change the world, why Moore’s Law is important to roboticists, and why business should keep an eye on CMU.