First time at MonkeyTaco? This post builds on Your Laptop Is Already a Robot. You don’t need to read it first — but if something looks unfamiliar, that’s a great place to start. Let’s be honest about something. In the last post, we built a robot that could look at the world through a webcam and…

Open any news site right now. Scroll for ten seconds. I’ll wait. Yep — there it is. AI. Robots. Some headline about a robot doing something a human used to do, followed by either breathless excitement or mild existential dread, depending on the publication. Robots and AI are everywhere. In the news, in your social…