Recent selected coverage…
Bloomberg TV
February 2013: Tabitha Soren came over to talk with us about making robots a little less scary. The Bloomberg team put together this piece about her visit.
Smithsonian
December 2012: The Smithsonian Innovations blog just listed me as one of the top 6 innovators to watch in 2013. It’s definitely time to get my nose back down to the research grind!
APM: The Story
October 2012: Dick Gordon did a fun interview with Doug Dooley and me about our ongoing work on animating personal robots.
POP!TECH
September 2012: I went to Camden, Maine, for the PopTech Science Fellows training and conference.
Tech Review
August 2012: MIT’s Tech Review named the TR35 (innovators under 35) for 2012. I’m flattered and honored to be included in their list this year. It was fun to get to meet these folks at EmTech.
NPR: All Things Considered
June 2012: Melissa Block and Alison MacAdam visited us at Willow Garage to produce a story around personal robots. It was great to meet and talk with them. In case you’re wondering, yes, they really are as sharp, curious, thoughtful, and articulate as they seem to be on edited radio.
FastCompany
May 2012: FastCompany just posted the list of 2012 Most Creative People in Business. I don’t think I’ve ever been on a list along with the likes of Bjork before. Flattered.
PBS
May 2012: PBS aired our work on personal robotics and human-robot interaction as part of their television series, America Revealed.
Newsweek
December 2011: Our HRI research got covered by Dan Lyons, who visited us at Willow Garage during his trip to the Bay Area.
Core77
July 2011: As part of our ramp up for Kicker‘s Device Design Day (D3) event, Core77 posted some answers to the six questions that the D3 folks asked me.
ABC, CNN, et al.
July 2011: Many folks, including ABC, CNN, FastCompany, Forbes, have covered our recent blog post on the Robots for Humanity project that Henry Evans, Jane Evans, GA Tech, Willow Garage have been working on for the past few months.
National Geographic
June 2011: National Geographic just published one of the photos of PR2. That’s my hand, grabbing the mail from the PR2 gripper.
Wired
April 2011: Brendan Koerner at Wired magazine just covered the research that Victoria Groom (Stanford) and I did together on human-like vs. machine-like robot forms.
New Scientist
March 2011: Heather Knight from New Scientist magazine just wrote an article on our telepresence research, based on the field work for our CHI 2011 paper.