Robotics

/robotics1402

a place to discuss robotics, how to build them, papers, tutorials, the consequences, hands on demos and more

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kevin mfer 🎩
@kevinmfer·
china has started mass production, crypto bros finally have a chance
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp·
🤞🏾eagerly waiting for the price drop so that we can send rovers to moon, mars amd beyond 🚀

https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/1845573933082333423
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Montana Wong
@montana·
Finally saw a Boston Dynamics dog robot in person
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s5eeo
@s5eeo·
I've seen a lot of people argue that humanoid robots are a form of skeuomorphism because there are much better form factors, even for homes (e.g. wheel base with arms, robot dog with an arm as the head).

I watched an interview where the roboticist Eric Jang shared his take on this. He believes that the humanoid form factor for an environment like a home is not just sufficient but actually necessary. And he went into concrete reasons why he thinks so, which was super interesting.

If anyone wants to watch it, the discussion about this starts at 21:55 in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHsWJ_XNEz0&t=1395s

I'd add some quotes from the interview here but I'll cast hem in the comments. Reaching the character limit.
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Alberto Ornaghi
@alor·
Can we check if someone at Tesla installed red LEDs in the Optimus eyes? just in case...

https://x.com/MrGoldBro/status/1844597552135413986
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@na·
a parallel agent: exploit while you explore (following protocols), explore while you exploit (projecting history)
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Tayyab - d/acc
@tayyab·
I remember watching a video on the Open Source Hardware movement and can never find the same video again. :/
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July
@july·
/robotics is open to all!

Click the link above to Join the Channel
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp·
currently working on LLM for a client and cryptobotics at home - good balance 😇
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s5eeo
@s5eeo·
I somehow expected the fastest bipedal robots to be faster at running than humans already. But I was surprised to learn that this is not just wrong but that it's not even close!
The latest world record for the running speed of a bipedal robot is 24.73 seconds for 100 meters (~14.6 kmh or 9 mph).
The world record for humans is 9.58 seconds (~37.6 kmh or 23.4 mph).
Even for quadruped robots, the current world record is 19.87 seconds (~18.1 kmh or 11.3 mph), also surprisingly far behind.

Speeds on treadmills can be much faster but they're not directly comparable with overground walking / running.

The video shows footage of the fasted bipedal robot I could find for overground running and running on a treadmill, respectively.

Happy to be corrected, if I missed anything!
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July
@july·
Just a normal video of a robot uninterrupted, cleaning bathrooms for one hour straight at 1x

Spoiler alert: it's getting pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCY2-eDQ-X0
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp·
Today's Yak Robotics Garage Meetup on YouTube.

Very productive meeting. Controlled a robot in Seattle via farcaster frames from Finland, Japan and Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxLTyQgbKRwajpYef2ZWSylZpr8NnqvxB0
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp·
@robrecht any estimate on when the pay API comes online? I have a use case for my robot and this would greatly speed up my work 🫡
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July
@july·
1/n Here's an extensive overview & thread and a few thoughts on Robotics projects and whether they should use Rust or C/C++ or Python
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