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Evan Ackerman

@evanackerman.bsky.social

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Senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. I hug robots. spectrum.ieee.org

Evan Ackerman @evanackerman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Paro, who is my muse, is coming with me to SXSW for a panel tomorrow with Peter Stone @sonyai.bsky.social and Cynthia Breazeal @mitmedialab.bsky.social on robots and creativity

An adorable white baby harp seal robot is stuffed into a backpack with only his head peeking out

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Evan Ackerman @evanackerman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Hmm let me try that GIF again:

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Evan Ackerman @evanackerman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Turns out that if you're going to give them legs, you also need to give them toes, or this happens:

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Evan Ackerman @evanackerman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This guy pretty much sums up how I feel about robots after a month of work travel.

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Evan Ackerman @evanackerman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Not sure yet what I'll be posting here, but enjoy this cow who features prominently in a robotics story that I'm working on:

A very close up picture of the nose and face of a curious cow in a dairy

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Evan Ackerman @evanackerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

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