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Oliver Mitchell

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New York, NY, United States

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Past:
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  • AlleyWatch

Past articles by Oliver:

Countering Luddite politicians with life (and cost) saving machines

Earlier this month, Candy Crush celebrated its decade birthday by hosting a free party in lower Manhattan. The climax culminated with a drone light display of 500 Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) illustrating the whimsical characters of the popular mobile game over the Hudson. Rather than applauding the decision, New York lawmakers ostracized the avionic wonders to Jersey. In the words of… → Read More

The Impact of AI-Enabled Smart Cities

"All kinds of automation are great, BUT a city is about satisfying the quality of life of its residents before everything. Integrated dashboards with AI and robots, and tech-supported decision makings are a life-long technical dream of all generations of urban professionals, engineers, architects, but most of the people would agree that there would not be worse governance than the one of… → Read More

Reopening America with Intelligence in the Built Environment

Matias Klein, CEO of Kognition.ai, hopes to change the Smart Building paradigm with his new AI-monitoring platform, Total Property Intelligence System (TPIS). → Read More

Robotic Startup Now Cuisine Takes On Ghost Kitchens and Drone Deliveries

The robotics industry is at an inflection point where the baton is being passed from the scientists to the practitioners. In historical terms, we are witnessing the Edisons of the world harness the innovations of the likes of Faraday to create life-changing businesses and wealth. Automation has moved from smart manufacturing and logistics to fry cooking and salad tossing. → Read More

Robot Stomachs: Powering Machines With Garbage and Urine

The World Bank estimates that 3.5 million tons of solid waste is produced by humans every day, with America accounting for more than 250 million tons a year or over 4 pounds of trash per citizen. This figure does not include the 34 billion gallons of human organic materials that are processed in water treatment centers across the country each year. → Read More

Robot stomachs: powering machines with garbage and pee

Robot stomachs: powering machines with garbage and pee → Read More

Are Robo-Butlers Really Handy?

“I am extremely skeptical about the quality of the artificial intelligence behind the housekeeping robot in Samsung’s CES video. They show it performing an extremely wide variety of tasks, from pouring wine to loading the dishwasher to doing laundry. Developing an AI robust enough to go into an unknown consumer home and learn from them how they want to pick up toys is already a hard problem.” → Read More

The Year of the SPAC and What it Means for Hardware

A record 219 companies went public through this fundraising vehicle that uses a reverse merger with an existing private business to create a publicly-listed entity. This accounted for more than $73 billion dollars of investment, providing private equity startups a new outlet to raise capital and provide shareholder liquidity. → Read More

The Year Of The SPAC And What It Means For Hardware

The Year Of The SPAC And What It Means For Hardware → Read More

Smiling Robots Alleviate Human Anxieties with Expper Technologies

Expper’s founder Karén Khachikyan says the company's robot Robin changes a kid’s perception of medical treatments, where they will no longer feel isolated, lonely, and scared. → Read More

Contact Tracing, Machines, And Civil Liberties

Already five regions within New York State have reopened for business, ushering in a new reality of “test, isolate, and trace.” The United States estimates it will hire close to 300,000 people to become contact tracers, identifying potential spreaders of the virus. Governor Cuomo has appointed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to head … → Read More

Promobot Pivots From Whimsical Buddy To Social Distancing Enhancer

Oleg Kivokurtsev is the founder of Promobot which is headquartered in New York City. The Russian-born engineer started building his first humanoid literally in his garage. Today there are 500 Promobots in 36 countries generating many millions of dollars annually. In explaining how his business halted overnight, the innovator griped, “Our business has drastically changed. Before, our main product… → Read More

3D Printing Vital Equipment for COVID-19

Living in the epicenter of the coronavirus plague is a surreal experience. Outside my window, New York City appears serene – devoid of its former noise, bustle, and loud citizenry. However, a few blocks north, south, and east it is a war zone with fatalities piling so high that administrators are utilizing mass graves. One … → Read More

Blue Ocean Robotics Leads The Way In Combating COVID-1

Blue Ocean Robotics’ shipped 2,000 units of UVD Robots ApS, a mobile ultra-violet sanitizing platform, to combat COVID-19. I caught up with Claus Risager of Blue Ocean, to discuss how their business has been impacted by the global pandemic. → Read More

The Cambrian Intelligence Case Study and the New Normal: Virtual Offices, Schools, and Manufacturing

Moving past the hysteria, computer vision is a defining element of intelligent machines transforming mechanical movements into dynamic workflows. → Read More

Don’t Worry About Coronavirus, There’s A Bot For That…

Sitting in New York’s former Engineer’s Society, I spoke with Oleg Kivokurtsev of Promobot and discussed his latest service bot creations that are being deployed across the globe in hotels, office buildings, and hospitals. Fay-Louise Hayden of VentureOut (his New York mentor) shared a vignette of her experiences last month as the imposing humanoid diagnosed tourists in Times Square for … → Read More

Augean Robotics: Mechanizing Food Production From Farm To Table

It spanned over 120 feet and took up a considerable area inside the already overpacked robotics section of the Las Vegas Convention Center, leaving many to wonder, ‘What on earth is a tractor doing at CES?’ Ever the since the acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Blue River Technologies for $305 million, John Deere has been betting its … → Read More

NASA Prepares the Nation for Flying Taxis?

Autonomous eVTOLs (electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing systems) are coming sooner than you think. → Read More

It Takes a Village to Deploy a Tactile Telerobot

Observing MLK Day, I followed in the footsteps of Katherine Johnson at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Her memory still looms large over the Mission Control room that launched Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing fifty years ago. This historic milestone could not have been achieved without the mathematical genius of the African-American pioneer and her team … → Read More

CES 2020: A smart city oasis

Like the city that hosts the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) there is a lot of noise on the show floor. Sifting through the lights, sounds and people can be an arduous task even for the most experienced CES attendees. Hidden past the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) is a walkway to a tech oasis housed in the Westgate Hotel. This new area hosting SmartCity/IoT innovations is… → Read More