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A lot of old school robotics methods need to die. Older professors who refuse to get with the times are holding the field back. For example, the whole graph-bas
by loxodrome 2y ago
A lot of old school robotics methods need to die. Older professors who refuse to get with the times are holding the field back. For example, the whole graph-based navigation stack is dumb. Lidar-based SLAM is dumb. The field needs to go all in on AI/ML for navigation, planning, reasoning, language, and everything else.
- mystified5016 2y agoWell, gee, what do you think sounds better? Building a datacenter, burning gigawatts daily, spending millions in developer hours to train an 'AI' for a few years before you launch your product, and then to maintain said datacenter and its ridiculous energy requirements. Or, put a 2W microcontroller in each widget and use proven classical methods that can solve the problem locally. One of these is an obvious choice for anyone who has considered the question for longer than it takes to read 'AI'
- loxodrome 2y ago[flagged]