Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots

students overlooking their rope-traversing robots

Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of towers and strings – Meccano, or Lego – to have …read more Continue reading Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots

The AI Fix #29: AI on OnlyFans, and the bot that wants to be a billionaire

In episode 29 of The AI Fix, an AI company makes the bold step of urging us to “stop hiring humans”, Graham is wrong about GB AI, parents prepare their kids for the imminent Moxie-mageddon, Google releases Gemini 2.0, and a robot is found dead at work … Continue reading The AI Fix #29: AI on OnlyFans, and the bot that wants to be a billionaire

The AI Fix #28: Robot dogs with bombs, and who is David Mayer?

In episode 28 of The AI Fix, the new version of ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of telling Mark how to defend himself from a flame thrower-wielding robot dog in his living room, Graham loses 30,000 robots on the head of a pin, our hosts meet a hum… Continue reading The AI Fix #28: Robot dogs with bombs, and who is David Mayer?