It's nickname should be the blue grinch

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social

We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked

What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective

We call it the digital sphinx

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Is this the VAIB metric?

Very cool work

Why do they have a bad reputation?

1. Starship robots seem to be moving faster compared to a few years ago. What changes helped achieve that?

2. How much processing is on board versus the cloud?

1. What are the major roadblocks to using more robots in construction?

2. How autonomous are the robots you deploy (percentage, maybe?) ?

Yup, feedback is a critical part of having imperfect processes reach their desired end. That is, closed loop and open loop are very different.

nice blog post about a humanoid robotics startup failure: ruixu.us/posts/six-th...

For all robotics or for robotics at Tesla?

Neat, do you describe the setup somewhere?

It HAS to be either autobotting or decepticonning

Those kp values look high, try 1000, maybe even 100.

CC vim mode is off to me

What do you like about diffusion models?

If the fingers are set to try to snap together, maybe reduce the gains, and try to make the set point equal the width of the object.

Try increasing the number of iterations for the dynamics solver. If that fails then possibly reduce the stiffness of the contact model, though you'll get more intersections between bodies.

What local model are you using?

Perhaps that's another good reason to not frame the number of citations as a measure of recognition.

Very meta, too! Neuro-inspired observation of neural phenomena.

Did you bolt the arm straight into the wood?

Fair, but does that improvement need to occur through the journal system? There's an argument for journals enabling expert feedback outside of buddy networks, OTOH.

"Imagine landing your dream job, only to discover that half your workday will be spent not on the work itself but on cold-calling strangers to beg for money."

Do these tear up the grass/soil any?

Preach

GitHub - philfung/awesome-reliable-robotics: Robotics research demonstrating reliability and robustness in the real world (continuously updated) Robotics research demonstrating reliability and robustness in the real world (continuously updated) - philfung/awesome-reliable-robotics

Also, a list of my favorite robotics papers:

github.com/philfung/awe...

Snippings of recorded talks

Last week’s #AI4Robotics workshop was fab & fabulously full 😊 If you missed out we've good news -
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Loving Justin Carpentier's talk right now. Nice workshop!

With that soundtrack it feels like it could be a scene from the animatrix.

Collaborative news curation as a service, demonstrating the value of social media based on protocols, not platforms and a “playbook for killing information voids.”