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No their research is much better than most. In my field of Robotics, Russ Tedrake, Alberto Rodriguez regularly get out impactful work (and I have a disdain for

No their research is much better than most. In my field of Robotics, Russ Tedrake, Alberto Rodriguez regularly get out impactful work (and I have a disdain for most work especially the kind Google does). I think they kind of lost out in Deep Learning to Berkeley and Stanford but they’re slowly building their expertise in it (frankly most of Academia doesn’t compare to industry outputs in Deep Learning so I don’t think it’s that big a deal)

ipsum2 3y ago
I agree that Russ Tedrake is great, I've watched his online lectures on underactuated robotics.
KennyBlanken 3y ago
> No their research is much better than most. Yeah, so good they were extensively faking their research and demos for a "personal food computer"...and even selling the fucking things to unsuspecting schools. Literally snake oil scamming. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=MIT+media+lab+grow+box+scam https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=MIT+med... Then there's your robotics team, backed by millions of dollars in free products and "consulting" (ie doing work for them) in sponsorship by defense contractors...beaten by a bunch of high school kids who raided a BoatUSA store and Home Depot to build an underwater robot with bilge pumps and a bunch of PVC pipe. The most exciting thing to come out of MIT Media Lab in two decades is an alarm clock wrapped in carpet that rolls off your nightstand when it goes off. MIT is a defense industry thinktank masquerading as a university.
- sashank_1509 3y ago
  Sadly scams happen in every school, and I think it may only increase in academia moving forward but what’s the issue with their robotics team? Russ’s student Scott later went on to make Atlas (Boston Dynamics Humanoid) backflip. They were the first to come up with a backflipping quadruped. Alberto’s team won the Amazon pick and place challenge (also demonstrated a robot playing Jenga). Recently Pulkit showed how to rotate any arbitrary object with a dexterous robotic arm. I’d honestly find it hard to name universities better than MITs at robotics

ipsum2 3y ago

I agree that Russ Tedrake is great, I've watched his online lectures on underactuated robotics.

KennyBlanken 3y ago

> No their research is much better than most. Yeah, so good they were extensively faking their research and demos for a "personal food computer"...and even selling the fucking things to unsuspecting schools. Literally snake oil scamming. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=MIT+media+lab+grow+box+scam https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=MIT+med... Then there's your robotics team, backed by millions of dollars in free products and "consulting" (ie doing work for them) in sponsorship by defense contractors...beaten by a bunch of high school kids who raided a BoatUSA store and Home Depot to build an underwater robot with bilge pumps and a bunch of PVC pipe. The most exciting thing to come out of MIT Media Lab in two decades is an alarm clock wrapped in carpet that rolls off your nightstand when it goes off. MIT is a defense industry thinktank masquerading as a university.

sashank_1509 3y ago
Sadly scams happen in every school, and I think it may only increase in academia moving forward but what’s the issue with their robotics team? Russ’s student Scott later went on to make Atlas (Boston Dynamics Humanoid) backflip. They were the first to come up with a backflipping quadruped. Alberto’s team won the Amazon pick and place challenge (also demonstrated a robot playing Jenga). Recently Pulkit showed how to rotate any arbitrary object with a dexterous robotic arm. I’d honestly find it hard to name universities better than MITs at robotics