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Also, who is the target audience of this blog? Is it high school students interested in robotics? Engineering students in college? Professionals in the field? All of them?
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Good question. Our hope is for the "all of them" option. Erico, the blog editor, is a reporter for IEEE Spectrum and really delves into backstories and interviews for kind of "reporting" on the newest stuff in the field, so that probably is most interesting to higher level robotics types (college, professionals). I like talking about consumer robots, education, competitions, events, and robot ethics/philosophy, so I think I write for a different audience -- both younger people (high school, college) and those who are interested in more than just the technical side. We're bringing on some other contributors over the next couple of months who will be able to talk more about academia, robotics in the rest of the world, and other topics that Erico and I can't cover between us. So we're hoping that there's something for everyone.
I think IEEE Spectrum, as a magazine, aims a little high in its audience's knowledge (appropriate, since it goes to IEEE members, who are probably college level or above), but the IEEE blogs are meant to be more accessible to a wider audience.