From the long silence here, you might think I'd stopped think and writing about robot matters. Not so!
In fact, one reason I've been quiet here is that I've been working on a large-ish robot-related journalism project, which I hope will see the light of day very soon. (Its timing is up to its editors, not to me.)
And I've been working on some other projects, because much as I love this newsletter, it does not yet pay anything.
These other projects take time. A problem for me because I'm not temperamentally a quick-hits kind of guy. I prefer to offer longish posts, but I can't produce those every week.
I am not happy with these long gaps in publication.
So from now on, I will be posting once a week.
Every few weeks, those posts will be essays of the kind I've described. In the weeks between, I'll be posting links to robot news, research papers, and any other sources that I think mig…