We are well aware that RSS is the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, but any observer of RSS over the last many years would be forgiven if he/she were to ask the question, “where are the systems?” It is an open secret in the robotics community that it is hard…

I am often asked how I go about teaching ROS to robotics students, and I simply reply “I don’t”. Although ROS is an important skill to learn at some point during the career of a robotics student, in the first semester or two of introducing robotics, an instructor must balance…

The past decades have seen tremendous advances in robotics, with many tech gurus predicting that a revolution in robotics, with a scale…

This is the big ethical question of our time, and we need to face it before it’s too late. To be clear, there has never been a time in history when humans could be called entirely rational. But the negative impacts of irrationality are being amplified and spread by technology…