Robot Sunday

Schneier has "Friday Squid Blogging", so being original and imaginative, I'll take on Robot Sundays. (Besides, plenty other people do regular "niche" posts, and I thought, "Why not?")

But why robots?

Well, I've been fascinated by robots since I was young. (Who isn't?) My main motivation in becoming a computer engineer was to build robots. That, and my overwhelming nausea at the sight of blood droplets, which led me to quit my ambition of being a doctor. And despite naysayers' predictions that robots will rule the earth and crush humanity, I believe they are essential to our progress as a species. Of course, they must follow Asimov's three laws or we're doomed.

At the SM Science Discovery Center.

(My robotic obsession also stems from my frustration in control systems courses in college. I still wake up sweating after bad dreams of drowning in transforms and matrices. Damn you, Laplace!)

Who knows, I might also use this "column" to track my progress in building robots — it's one of those I'm-gonna-do-this-as-soon-as-I-have-time-and-money ventures. Just bear with me on this one.