I was still teaching at Fairmont State University when I started this blog. I retired from teaching in 2015 after doing a stint as a coordinator for the Mechatronics Program at Pierpont Community College. 

Back then, I saw robotics as the future and wanted to make that an integral part of the University curriculum. It was not to be. Even with grant funding, administration was not on board. 

Heavy sigh and move on.. .

Upon retirement, I moved to writing, sci-fi and creepy stuff, not horror per se, though some of the stories may fall into that category. 

New tech. Things have changed a lot since 2009. The Tesla Model 3 was introduced in 2017, cars have a ton of robotic features: built in nav systems, lane change warnings, back up cameas, lidar/radar obstacle warning. Average car now contains thousands of chips, though the numbers are hard to count. I would suggest that actual processors, those things that take inputs, use software or firmware to process the data and make changes, are far less, perhaps a few hundred.

And we have Google self driving cars, Tesla has that feature--sort of...

We have robotic assisted surgery.

I will be posting more soon.

Link to my writing web page:  https://rgeneturchin.com/