Apr 8, 2018

Welcome to AutonoMusings!

By Joshua Ouellette • Issue #1 • View online

Hello!

We’re kicking off a weekly newsletter discussing all things related to building autonomous systems – from autonomous cars, to drones and service robots.

We’ll cover startup news, technology trends, culture & design, and upcoming events – all as they relate to a building an autonomous future. That’s a lot of ground to cover, but it’s important to view these topics holistically if we’re going to understand the technology and its place in the world.

We’d love for this to be a place for you to share what you’re building, the challenges that keep you up at night, or any exciting news you have. To submit contributions for consideration, please shoot us a note at: contributions@autonomusings.com

Startup news

Zipline Hopes to Operate in the US (by way of Rwanda)?

We tip our hats to Zipline’s strategy of launching in Rwanda. They proved their concept, gained operating expertise, and made a strong case that their technology can save lives in the US, too. Will that get the FAA to “yes”? We hope so!

www.technologyreview.com • Share

Voxel 3D Simulation for Games

Another stellar example of video game technology pushing the envelope in fidelity and realism – improvements we’ll inherit to simulate more realistic robotic control systems.

venturebeat.com • Share

Technology trends

There’s been a recent uptick in the news about cool bio-inspired designs. Here’s some of the best from this week…

Underwater GPS Inspired by Shrimp

If shrimp can find their way around underwater, well, why can’t robots?

spectrum.ieee.org • Share

Swarm of Flapping Wing Flyers

We’re curious whether the atmosphere on Mars is thick enough to make ornithopters a realistic probability, even with the reduced gravity.

www.nasa.gov • Share

Spiders and Foxes and Robots, Oh My!

Gratuitous, but haven’t we all dreamt of building creepy but elegant, crawling, flying, cartwheeling things?

spectrum.ieee.org • Share

Culture and Design

Imagine: Your airy loft in SoMa

Next-level Whiteboarding

Oh wow, we’d like this for our office. Wall-sized map of Westeros, anyone?

www.dezeen.com • Share

Events on our radar

Next week is National Robotics Week! Please feel free to share any events that you think are interesting and relevant with us.

We Robot 2018 - Legal and Policy Issues

We’ll be at this conference at Stanford; hit us up if you’ll be there too and we’ll organize a group for drinks. We hope that the “Robot Law & Policy for non-lawyers” workshop will tell us more about how the data collected by robots, autonomous vehicles, and drones might be regulated in the future.

conferences.law.stanford.edu • Share

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