Uber-geek [James McLurkin] was in Austin recently demoing his robot swarm. He's on tour with EDA Tech Forum. [McLurkin] has multiple degrees from the MIT AI lab and worked at iRobot for a couple of years. Lately, he has been working on distributed robot computing: robot swarms. [McLurkin] was an entertaining speaker and had an interesting view of robotics. He is optimistic that robot parts will … [Read more...]