First time at MonkeyTaco? This post builds on Your Laptop Is Already a Robot and When Your Robot Sees Someone, Make It React. You don’t need to read them first — but if something looks unfamiliar, those are great places to start. Let’s take stock of where we are. Our laptop robot can see. It can detect a…

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…