New blog post! Manipulation is such a big deal that it takes the broadest possible perspective to appreciate it properly. A careful objective look at all phenomena across all space and time reveals that manipulation is the most amazing, to the fourth power. Manipulation is glorious.

New blog post: The Hairball of Human Knowledge What does the universe of human knowledge look like? A neat disk with the frontier at the edge? Nope, it's a porous hairball with the frontier sprinkled throughout. A mess, but a beautiful mess. Under 6 minutes to read. mtmason.com/the-hairball...

New blog post: A Dilettante's Philosophy of Mind. For fifty years I have tried and failed to ignore philosophers, especially the philosophers telling us that AI is destined for failure. Maybe a brain dump will alleviate the pressure. Under 6 minutes to read. mtmason.com/a-dilettante...

Time for another blog post! AI and Robotics: Scientific Revolution #3. We are living through a third scientific revolution, after the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions. And almost nobody has noticed! Under five minutes to read. mtmason.com/ai-and-robot...

I just added a new post: Don't trust smart people! Some ideas about refining your ideas, starting with a chat with Jeff Schneider, and featuring cameos by Marvin Minsky and Allen Newell. A seven-minute read. Hope you find it fun and/or enlightening! mtmason.com/dont-trust-s...

New blog post! What did I learn in warehouse automation? Clutter is essential, in the warehouse and also at home. A seven-minute read. mtmason.com/robotic-mani...

Time for blog post number nine -- "Robo Exodus." The question: What happens when we produce robots with true minds? Fifty years in the future, Professor Moses faces this challenge in a discussion with Evolution Personified. An eight-minute read. Hope you like it. mtmason.com/robo-exodus/

Blog post number eight -- "Vacuum grippers versus robot hands." Here's the question: when humanoids can do everything a human can, will they take over the warehouse? No! Vacuum is awesome! Vacuum grippers are the wheels of manipulation! It is only an five-minute read. Hope you like it.

New blog post! mtmason.com/robots-are-i...

I pushed out another blog post! How to close a drawer, how to do just about any manipulation, based on techniques described by Dan Whitney in a talk I attended about 50 years ago. It is only an eight-minute read. Hope you like it. mtmason.com/the-heart-of...

Time for another blog post! Just a six-minute read. staging2.mtmason.com/the-unstable...

Time for another blog post -- "The Inner Robot" -- on how our subconscious processes mislead us on the nature of human manipulation, by managing it brilliantly and quietly. Hope you find it rewarding. It is a seven-minute read. mtmason.com/the-inner-ro...

New blog post: Robo Genesis. I was trying to think about robot design, from an evolutionary perspective, and it occurred to me I could have a character, Evolution Personified (EP) conversing with a roboticist. Moses, burning bush, ten commandments... sacrilegious? Not offensive I hope.

I added a post to my blog: The Forebot and the Buttlebot​ mtmason.com/forebot-and-... Here's the question. What happens when you deploy robots in a warehouse, or in a home? What instructions do you give them? It is only a four-minute read. Hope you like it.

Watching this interview with Rodney Brooks. Great perspective from a deep thinker. bsky.app/profile/rodn...

I just posted my 2nd blog post. Here's the idea: How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles? It's only a four-minute read. mtmason.com/the-beetle-r...