After conducting an interview at the office I drove downtown to the Microsoft NERD (New England Research and Development) Center where I attended a seminar on the Future of Robotics. It was an extremely informative session and I made a number of good connections. After the presentations, mostly by local university researchers, I walked over to the MIT campus where a tour was given of the robotics sections of the CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). I saw walking robots, flying robots, underwater robots and even this cooking robot (she was stirring a bowl of cookie batter). If there was any doubt in my mind before, I am now convinced that Boston is the worldwide epicenter of robotics.

Tomorrow I depart for Hong Kong and China where I will spend a week visiting with our contract manufacturers and several key vendors. In the past my website has been blocked by the Chinese government (censorship at its finest) and if that is the case again I will not be able to make new posts until I return.