Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life Singapore is using robot swans to monitor water quality Twerking robot bottom yours for $1000 Japanese Robot Manufacturer Responds to America’s Giant Robot Battle Challenge Inside Amazon’s Warehouse, Human-Robot Symbiosis Robotic dog pants, dribbles warm saliva, and tries to bite you

Travel Casper. Upcoming week: Casper and (finally) Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Essays Elsewhere Dad on audreywatters.com Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Other Projects The only project this week: dealing with my dad’s death. My brother and I saw the lawyer. We...

My dad died suddenly June 30. His memorial is today. I will not read this out loud there. I’m in no shape to do so. I’m not sure anyone who’ll be present wants to hear my truth about my dad. And I don't want things to become any more tangled...

Travel Philadelphia, PA; Hermosa Beach, CA; Casper, WY Upcoming week: Casper, WY; Hermosa Beach, CA Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter The Stories We Tell about Education Technology Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? Essays Elsewhere Is It Time to Give Up...

This post first appeared on aud.life Robot kills worker at Volkswagen factory in Germany The Future of Robots Doesn’t Look Like What You Think It Looks Like Mr. Head, An Abstract Painting Robot Built From a Roomba Drone footage of Iceland American Robot Builders MegaBots Inc. Publicly Challenge Japan to...

Travel Hermosa Beach, then Philadelphia. Upcoming week: Philadelphia, then Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Challenging MOOCs No, Sesame Street was not the First MOOC Essays Elsewhere Lady Pretty on audreywatters.com No, Sesame Street was not the First MOOC on educationfuturism.com Speaking Nope, although...

This post first appeared on aud.life Mother by Sense, A Sensor-Based Home Automation and Tracking System Queen Elizabeth Meets the Future Queen Who Is A Robot And Not A Human Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human? Adding a cockroach shell improves microbot mobility Nano Satellites Work with Ground...

My granny passed away today, just a few days after her 98th birthday. The last few weeks were quite difficult – she had a heart attack, pneumonia, and a pulmonary edema; the last few years perhaps even more so, as she suffered at times from dementia. She was certain that,...

Travel Nope (other than a trip to Woodland Hills on Monday – the first time I’ve driven in/through Los Angeles). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach and Philadelphia. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter How Sputnik Launched Ed-Tech: The National Defense Education Act of 1958 Parents as Modern...

This post first appeared on aud.life This Tech Giant Taught 3,000 Kids to Build Robots in a Year Automated Vehicles: One Eye on the Road, Another on You Hibernating robot wakes up on comet, sends message from space. We, Robots: Robots from the 1920s to the 1990s Clumsy Robot Slips...