Writing
I write about hardware, automation, energy, and applying AI in real-world systems.
I'm a regular contributor to publications like Innovation Magazine (Engineers and Geoscientists BC), reaching registered engineers & geoscientists through quarterly print editions from the regulatory board. I've also previously been featured in Popular Science and Cottage Life. In the arts & culture world, my work has appeared in places like Hazlitt (Penguin Random House), Maisonneuve, & the Taipei Times.
01
Wearable Robotics for Paralysis Rehabilitation
How a Vancouver startup engineered the world's first self-balancing, Health Canada-approved exoskeleton
Covering the full development arc of Human in Motion's ExoMotion R from custom actuation to ML model training — examining the ten-year iteration process that engineers underwent to ship a commercially-available exoskeleton, balancing competing constraints across torque, weight, speed, and user safety.
02
Electric Propulsion for Heavy Marine Operations
Designing the engineering systems behind North America's first fully battery-electric harbour tugs
Examining how Vancouver naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd. engineered a new class of zero-emission tugboats capable of moving 70,000-tonne vessels on battery power alone — covering the technical tradeoffs of scaling lithium-ion systems for industrial marine use and the path to methanol and hydrogen as bridge fuels for longer-range operations.
03
AI-Driven Robotics in Precision Agriculture
From mushroom-picking arms to electrophysiological plant sensors, how BC engineers are automating the farm
Profiling 4AG Robotics' commercially deployed mushroom-harvesting robot and SFU researcher Dr. Woo Soo Kim's low-cost sensors detecting plant stress through electrical signals — illustrating how actuation, sensing, and machine learning are converging into integrated agricultural systems.
04
Magnetized Plasma Compression for Clean Energy
Inside General Fusion's decade-long prototype campaign toward commercial nuclear fusion
Following Richmond-based General Fusion's incremental approach to sustaining plasma compressed by liquid metal at temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius — detailing their three-component prototyping strategy and how their liquid metal wall uniquely addresses both machine damage and tritium rebreeding.
