Product Concept: Autonomous Storage Droid

Product Concept: Autonomous Storage Droid

Project Concept A household robot which packs and unpacks your things in standard size boxes and can also take out the trash and put it bac…


6 key blockers to using Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) at scale

A few weeks ago, I keynoted the RIA Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Conference , where I walked through a set of customer stories from Freedo…


Startups: Please Don't Solve Business Problems with Tech Solutions

Many startups create an amazing product which never quite makes it in to the ecosystem of their real customers. Why many GOOD products don.…


Robots Create Genuine Emotion in People they Help

One of our earlier-stage robotic platform customers at Freedom Robotics, Cyanbot , sent this picture of their prototype to us and said we …


SSH into Your Robot from Anywhere

I was just reflecting on how far we have come at Freedom and it brought to mind one of the hidden features of Freedom Robotics - the abilit…


Full-stack, Robust Robot Cloud Logging

UPDATE APRIL 2020: Added ROS 2 official support ! Today, I am really excited to announce cloud logging on the Freedom Platform for ROS 1, …


Co-Founding FutureRobot as CTO

I am very excited to announce that I have co-founded a robotics company as CTO. We aren't announcing what we are doing yet, but you can…


3 Failings of Current Robotic Dev Tools

With the proliferation of startups creating interactive robots, drones, AR, etc, there is a huge need to increase the quality of integrated…


Mandatory 1 hour Home Cyber Tune Up

Here is a list of must-do updates to your devices and home network to keep your family cyber-safe. Most of these take literally a minute to…


GitHub Pages hosts your web app globally for free in 10 min

How do you set up scalable hosting for a global web app for free in <10 minutes? The time to set up a new dev project has gone from…


Best Raspberry Pi Text Editor (Sublime Text replacement)

When developing on Raspberry Pi, most IDEs are too cumbersome or have not been ported fully to Linux. In their official list , I couldn'…


Hobby Servo PWM Solution - Control over a narrow band

I am using an adafruit 12-channel PWM servo Hat for Raspberry Pi  to control multiple RobotGeek 18-degree servos and have been fighting wi…


Is a 4k 39" monitor worth it 2 years in?

I have been using my 4k monitor for a long time now. I wrote a review of it when I first got it and now have had it long enough I can give …


Product Overview Videos: Iterate or Bust

One of the hardest things to do when creating a new product is simplify the explanation to get across the intent of the product without ge…


Why HCI products fail: 5 ways to do environment-first algorithm design

With VR and AR products coming to the mass market for the first time, we are going to run into a new generation of "almost awesome...