As more details come out, it looks like I was spot-on last night in my analysis of the embassy bombing in Athens. Hot damn!

It turns out one of my coworkers used to work for Evolution Robotics, which made the ER1 I used in my robotics research a year and a half ago. It's nice to know that he agrees with me that the ER1 could have been a great ( Read more... )

As Ricco mentioned in a comment to my previous post, it turns out that we won the scavenger hunt with flying colors. We took first place in the scavenger hunt, and Sony gave us an Aibo for that (this was unexpected; we didn't know that there were any prizes). We also got a Technical Merit award for "Overall Excellence in an Autonymous System," ( Read more... )