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I Spent a Career Manipulating You. Robots Should Too.

We're on the rooftop of an unstable building. MacGyver and his teammate Riley need to get a WWII-era unexploded bomb to a truck waiting fifty stories below, before the fuze ticking inside blows them all up. No time for the stairs. Mac looks...

21 days ago
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I Predicted This. Coco Robotics Just Did It.

Back in March, I predicted food delivery robots would become characters in our lives. Not just recurring entities. Branded ones.

First proof: Coco Robotics and Minions.

Josh Dubin, Coco’s Head of Ads, announced it on LinkedIn — a fleet fi...

a month ago
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A Fire, a Vigil, and Believing Objects Have Spirits

December, 2018. One of Kiwibot’s food delivery robots was cruising the Berkeley campus when it spontaneously burst into flames. Bystanders watched. One grabbed a fire extinguisher. Ultimately, the fire department foamed the smoldering chass...

2 months ago
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What Optimus Can Learn from Pac-Man

Video games spent decades leaning into one of the greatest cop-outs in storytelling history. Give the player a blank slate. An empty vessel you puppet with a controller. The excuse was that allowing the player to project themselves onto the...

3 months ago
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Grainwashing

A humanoid robot walks through a sunlit bedroom. Dust motes hang in the air. The camera drifts through a lens flare, revealing grain that suggests it was shot on 16mm film. A baritone voice begins speaking softly over ambient piano — intima...

3 months ago
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