jonnycowboy

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by jonnycowboy 6y ago
Not in this case. With SpaceX they also need high (de-entry, Mach heating) and low temperature (cryo fuel & oxygen) resistance but in the case of Boom the surface won’t heat enough to need high temp materials. That said, I’m not sure t
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by jonnycowboy 7y ago
In interaction with anything rigid (or even deformable), position control does not mean anything. Force (or torque) control defines the actual physical interaction.
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by jonnycowboy 7y ago
We actually have very cheap and pretty powerful position-controlled actuators (hobby servo motors). Attach any kind of spring and displacement measurement device (potentiometer, hall sensor, optical, LVDT, etc) and voila, instant torque co
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by jonnycowboy 9y ago
Also interested in answers to these two questions, as well as OpenCL performance in vanilla linux (iMX6 and above).
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by jonnycowboy 9y ago
Did you go to Sherbrooke?
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by jonnycowboy 9y ago
Sad to hear, I demoed a system with a Tobii sensor and it performed very well (even with my glasses). We were wondering about the effect of the constant IR blasts (are they continuous or pulsing?), thanks for the input.
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by jonnycowboy 9y ago
I work for a company that makes robot arms for assistive purposes (Kinova) so I have some insight to share. 1st a voice setup with Alexa or similar can really help. With regards to phone use, some of our users have an attachment to put the
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
The thing is that there was a lot about those old systems that was slow, so you were very, very careful how you programmed. You tended not to use vast library stacks, you went close to the metal and you coded in languages like Assembler, CO
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
the real question of course would be how to train the AI to have varying levels of "expertise" (ie: penalize if score is too high)
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Shorting insurance companies.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the share. One point I noticed not mentioned yet is that the images used for training are only 64x64! In the original google "grasping" research, the images were 472 × 472, 54 times bigger! I think t
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
I think this is mainly a "data" challege, how does Udacity plan on gaining an upper hand on this, especially with competitors like Uber and Tesla which gather data exponentially with each new ride/car sold?
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Not anymore, at least with CRISPR.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Do you know how long it took to train using that dataset and with what hardware configuration?
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
I would say: automation & AI: - automated cities & robotic workers - HARC working on the interfaces for the "workers" - basic income to replace minimum wage earners' incomes Would love to work on this path!
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
correction - those who PROJECT peace also nurture war.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
In both of those examples likely the blame is on the company and not the worker. In Joe's case, any aluminium dust may stick on the broom - solution, two seperate 20$ brooms, problem solved. Nevermind aluminum and iron shaving take a
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Do you have any details of what and how you teach the kids? I am interested in setting something similar up in our neighborhood.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Maybe @sama needs to take some hint from him for his new cities project!
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Seems like a good way to start a lawsuit...
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
This will be a great alternative for the kids instead of a complex PS4 or Xbox. Especially considering the controller size is much more in line with their hand sizes.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
It could be 100 pages if you start from scratch with a permissive development plan... (from a city standpoint). Issues such as criminal law, state and federal taxation, etc are outside the purvue of this discussion (and of the 100 page limi
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Reliability is not an issue for industrial hydraulics (they rarely break down) however they do require a lot of maintenance, are filled with hot (dirty) hydraulic fluid and are noisy (pumps). Electric solves all those issues.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
I imagine this robot is only a few weeks/months away from being able to plug itself in to recharge from any household socket.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
You mean Rat Things, right? http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Easily the most impressive household robot ever built.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
BD is only focusing on the platform. Google is working on the deep learning aspect of finding out what to do / action and how to do it. The control theory remark above is true, however even with deep learning, you can start your estima
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Introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot [video](youtube.com)
92 points by jonnycowboy 10y ago|55 comments
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Interesting that most of the requirements listed can be waived, including presumably the line of sight requirement (ie: for drone delivery): • Most of the restrictions discussed above are waivable if the applicant demonstrates that his or h
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Yes, easily by devaluing the currency.

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