Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

It's incredible that the Simpsons' creators predicted Coronavirus back in 1993! I understand that the sign in the first photo (t...

This is a 3D Printed Octopus.   The bendable legs are cute.  It's sitting on a camera and tripod.  Soon 3D Printed Objects wil...

I love FANUC industrial robots.  They are made by a secretive company in Japan and they are #1 in workplace automation worldwide!  The...

These  statistics  are dismal for manufacturing in the U.S.  Today, public sector (government) employment is 22.2 million vs. just 12.2 m...

Got to love this all American chair.  Red, white, and blue.  And stars and stripes everywhere.  The only thing that I serious...

If you have a pulse and have been to the stores or even shopping online lately (hey, it's the holidays so of course you have), you kno...

Get comfortable with your salary, because it isn't going anywhere positive-- payrolls are stagnant ! The Wall Street Journal repo...

Interest rates have been near zero since the recession of 2008. That supposedly to stimulate the economy.  However, aside from a stock...

So the world financial markets continue to go haywire.  The Uber glorified taxi service and app ( with an almost half billion dollar...

Thought this desk was really nice.  Professional, clean, hardwood, and very polished! Not overly large, but I  liked the geometry of t...

There was an interesting quote about jobs of the future by Tom Preston-Werner in Bloomberg Businessweek : "In the future, there...

Fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal today on China's "Left Behind Kids." While we hear about China as the risi...

As a kid, I was all too familiar with factory settings--my dad worked in one.  Dad is an incredibly persistent hard worker who went to t...

With so much of U.S. manufacturing activity going abroad, it is almost hard to believe that there is still a store in Elma, N.Y. called “...

Eleven years after the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Centers, we are still waiting for the new Freedom Tower to go up. Yes, the...

This new robot named Baxter, by Rethink Robots, is practically being touted as the greatest thing since Swiss cheese--"allowing our p...

I took these photos today of a cross section of a shoe.  I was surprised that this was all there was to it.  So what costs $140??? A ...

"The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System [LS3], a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with fund...

I continue with my infatuation with everything robotics. Here, the new Second Generation Exoskeleton Robotic Suit , the XOS 2, from Ray...

Forget waiters and waitresses, the new Japanese Hajime Robot restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand invested almost $1 million on 4 robotic wait...