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Back to the Future: Drones in Humanitarian Action
A devastating earthquake struck Nepal on April 25th, 2015. The humanitarian drone response to the earthquake was almost entirely foreign-led, top-down and techno-centric. International drone teams...
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Decolonizing Medical Cargo Drone Technology: Step 1
We’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Pfizer on an exciting project over the past 12 months. The project focused on using affordable, locally repairable, and locally owned cargo drones for the...
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Technology for Good is Broken. Here’s How We’re Trying to Fix It.
In Toward a Rational Society (1970), the philosopher Jürgen Habermas describes “the colonization of the public sphere through the use of instrumental technical rationality. In this sphere, complex...
View ArticleWeRobotics for Humans in a Hurry
We need to be better at communicating what WeRobotics is (and isn’t) to fellow humans. We can’t expect everyone to have the time to read through most of these blog posts and somehow immediately...
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Moving on from WeRobotics, with Gratitude
It is time for a new chapter of WeRobotics to begin. This next stretch of the journey must include more diverse executive leadership. I’m thus stepping down as the official Executive Director of...
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Drones and the Coronavirus: Do these applications make any sense?
Want to use drones in response to COVID-19? Then read this previous post to inform your decision-making. I also published this follow-up post to suggest that drones may add more value later in adjacent...
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Joining the Swiss Institute of Technology at EPFL
The Swiss Institute of Technology at EPFL ranks in the Top 15 of tech institutes alongside MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Caltech, Cambridge, Oxford, ETH, and NTU. I’m excited to join this highly...
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On the Decentralization of Robotics (A Story about Trouts, Magic Seeds, and...
So here’s the thing: “Robots are still being built in the same way as they have been for 70 years, since the dawn of robotics and its Taylorist and Fordist approach.” But guess what? This is about to...
View ArticleVideo: Why Climate Robotics?
Why am I interested in Climate Robotics? For many reasons, like the fact that robots can simultaneously assess and assist climate action in unique ways. This new video in our series on “Climate...
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First-ever Study on Robotics in Climate Action
The climate crisis is the defining issue of our time, and we need all hands and appropriate tech on deck to mitigate the effects of the emergency and adapt responsibly. The Climate Robotics Network is...
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