Tech Stuff

Humanoid Robots 2024: Products and brands.

March 21, 2024 August 20, 2024

These are the robots and companies behind the robots for those that took centre stage with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Nvidia AI event in March 2024, together with robots absent but still significant, and they are the start of a revolution that will transform the world provided we can solve the economic question that sadly is not even being asked.

While some companies on this list are in production with customer service and other robots, no company is in 2024 yet producing biped robots in the sufficient quantity to yet profit from biped robot production, and considering Tesla, founded in 2003, did not report a full year profit until 2020, profits may take a while.

Significantly, some are beginning mass production of humanoid robots in 2024, and those some include companies like Fourier, UBTech and Unitree that have already had other robots in mass production for a decade.

Page Updates: OFP Posts WordPress plugin, why updates matter, and how to find them.

July 17, 2022 August 16, 2022

I am an analyst, not a journalist, which means the focus of this site is analysis. Journalists, with the word ‘jour’ at the start of their title, present pages which will normally be in their final correct form from day one.

Analysis is very different. Many topics analyses continue to evolve, and while a report on what happened at a point in time should remain intact, analysis should continually be updated to reflect current, rather than now outdated conclusions. Updates are essential for information to remain relevant.

Updates, The Web Tools Topic, and 2D Animation.

March 2, 2022 March 5, 2022

The Web Tools discussed here are those used to create this website:
Wordpress, Elementor, Wordpress.com,. Synfig, Inkscape and Gimp.

The Webpaper and the ‘Blook’: An Evolution of non-fiction.

January 12, 2022 November 15, 2022

If you send someone an email, once you press send it is as final as when a book is published. If you later decide it would have been better if something was different, then it is too late. But if you put that writing on a webpage and send a link… you can always update the web page.

Imagine a scientific paper that in place of normal final publishing, is on the web and has that same ability to continue to be updated with the results further research.

Welcome to the “webpaper”, that can even be online before work is complete in get the feedback of peers and others even before it is considered final, and the “blook” that begins with one webpaper builds into a complete set of work over time as webpapers are added and continue to be updated as time progresses.

WordPress.com to the Next Level: Plugins, Elementor, CoBlocks?

January 8, 2022 April 2, 2022

Something completely different. A discussion on how this site is hosted: on wordpress.com.

Anyone who has started a “blog” or other site on wordpress.com, may get to wonder, what are the options for upgrading the website? What is the value of the free, personal or premium plans and beyond? What real world benefits are there, and, alternatively, what would you lose and/or gain from moving away from wordpress.com. This is a page discussing being in that situation. If you are not considering having a website, it may be of little interest.

Images, Making Animated GIFs & Solving colour problems.

January 1, 2022 January 1, 2022

This is part of series of pages I will be adding on things I have learnt as part of building this website, and I will soon try and enable following by topic (when I get this page working), so people can separately select notification on building websites and/or population or other issues, without being notified of things outside their interest. Standby for that update.

Meanwhile this page provides general help on making an animated GIF for a series of images, specific help on a challenge with animated GIFs, and a list of sites with free images as a resource for those building images.

Robot Vacuums and the 2021 Ecovacs Deebot T9+

August 12, 2021 March 20, 2024

From my research, the Ecovacs T9+ is at least the equal of other current robot vacuums in 2021, but there are still some caveats on what robot vacuums can achieve at this time.

Our Home Robot Future in 2021: Toys or Valuable Tools?

August 8, 2021 August 8, 2021

Someone mentioned ‘the Jetsons’ and I thought, “Robots, yes, flying cars, no.” People do keep working on flying cars, but I just do not see that turning out like in the Jetsons, and I will at some time elaborate on that topic. However a home robot could soon become a real thing.