Matt Mason

Vacuum grippers versus robot hands - Matthew T. Mason Will robot hands one day replace vacuum grippers in the warehouse? No chance.

Blog post number eight -- "Vacuum grippers versus robot hands." Here's the question: when humanoids can do everything a human can, will they take over the warehouse? No! Vacuum is awesome! Vacuum grippers are the wheels of manipulation!

It is only an five-minute read. Hope you like it.

Robots are Inside Out - Matthew T. Mason The human body has an infrastructure to build / maintain that body. Robots have a similar structure, but outside the body — an “exostructure.”

New blog post!
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The Heart of Robotic Manipulation - Matthew T. Mason Contact is the heart of robotic manipulation. To understand manipulation, you must understand contact.

I pushed out another blog post! How to close a drawer, how to do just about any manipulation, based on techniques described by Dan Whitney in a talk I attended about 50 years ago.

It is only an eight-minute read. Hope you like it.
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The Unstable Queen - Matthew T. Mason Getting started in robotics. And, why is manipulation hard? Manipulation means interacting with the real world, but the real world is tricky.

Time for another blog post!

Just a six-minute read.
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The Inner Robot - Matthew T. Mason How our subconscious processes mislead us on the nature of human manipulation, by managing it brilliantly and quietly.

Time for another blog post -- "The Inner Robot" -- on how our subconscious processes mislead us on the nature of human manipulation, by managing it brilliantly and quietly. Hope you find it rewarding. It is a seven-minute read.

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New blog post: Robo Genesis.

I was trying to think about robot design, from an evolutionary perspective, and it occurred to me I could have a character, Evolution Personified (EP) conversing with a roboticist. Moses, burning bush, ten commandments... sacrilegious? Not offensive I hope.

The forebot and the buttlebot - Matthew T. Mason What happens when humanoids arrive to modernize a warehouse, or a home? What instructions do you give them? How much freedom do you give them?

I added a post to my blog:
The Forebot and the Buttlebot​
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Here's the question. What happens when you deploy robots in a warehouse, or in a home? What instructions do you give them?

It is only a four-minute read. Hope you like it.

Watching this interview with Rodney Brooks. Great perspective from a deep thinker.

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The Beetle Roboticists: A Parable - Matthew T. Mason How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?

I just posted my 2nd blog post.
Here's the idea: How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?
It's only a four-minute read.

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