In 2016, the educated expectation was that it would take approximately a decade before Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot would be able to perform a backflip. This expectation was based on a loose timeline determined by the results of testing around the balance and performance of earlier prototypes. Boston Dynamics achieved this goal in 2017 In 2017 Boston Dynamic released a video of their Atlas robot performing the backflip. There’s something a little unnerving in the viewing, per

Why I’m supporting Derek O’ Kelly in his quest to bring Winning Minds Movement to the masses: I was sitting in my office one Saturday morning and I received the most terrifying call, the likes of which I hope I never receive again. My friend had gone missing. This call was especially disturbing because for the previous weeks we had spent countless hours discussing a growing mental health issue, and several afternoons sitting in various doctors’ offices trying to arrange appoi

I’ve just had lunch with the guy who invented Baileys, and it was a masterclass. ‘But that was forty years ago Karl.’ Some months back I was due to give a talk at an Innovation event in Cong, co. Mayo. I was told with a degree of ceremony, David Gluckman would speaking at the event. Great, I thought, who’s David Gluckman? Well, it turned out I missed David’s talk but throughout the event, people kept asking me had I ‘heard David’s talk,’ and ‘wasn’t it amazing.’ I was still w