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Love this, I’m playing around with the cheapo esp32+servos version of this, super fun. Something I’m working on is a hardware CLI for agents to run experiments

by sails 4mo ago

Love this, I’m playing around with the cheapo esp32+servos version of this, super fun. Something I’m working on is a hardware CLI for agents to run experiments, with a “CICD” pipeline that validates everything and means I can delegate more of the experiments to the agents. I wonder if you have any thoughts on this? The idea is to allow the coding agent to run the full loop of experiments and validations, with vision, audio, button pressing, speaking etc to interact in place of the human

mplappert 4mo ago
Very cool! Have you seen the recent nvidia thing? They do this at scale for robotics manipulation: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/enpire/ https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/enpire/
- sails 4mo ago
  Ah no I hadn't seen that, very interesting. I'm finding a gap just before running those experiments. The process of updating firmware, doing basic smoke tests on each device and validating it is live, and can function correctly. Basically the pre-deployment green light that you get on github, but for hardware. Have you seen or thought about that at all?
  - mplappert 4mo ago
    This seems indeed useful. I haven't seen this for robotics but I'm sure people need this for larger deployments (either for a distributed fleet or for an "arm farm"-like setup where there's many robots in one location for data collection / eval). Interesting idea!
    - sails 4mo ago
      Great thanks for giving it some thought, I’ll share a video as it’s all quite an early concept but saving me a lot of time on the bench!
killix 4mo ago
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- dang 4mo ago
  Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079. Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but some of your posts (like this one) are getting classified that way.

by sails 4mo ago

mplappert 4mo ago

Very cool! Have you seen the recent nvidia thing? They do this at scale for robotics manipulation: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/enpire/ https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/enpire/

sails 4mo ago
Ah no I hadn't seen that, very interesting. I'm finding a gap just before running those experiments. The process of updating firmware, doing basic smoke tests on each device and validating it is live, and can function correctly. Basically the pre-deployment green light that you get on github, but for hardware. Have you seen or thought about that at all?
- mplappert 4mo ago
  This seems indeed useful. I haven't seen this for robotics but I'm sure people need this for larger deployments (either for a distributed fleet or for an "arm farm"-like setup where there's many robots in one location for data collection / eval). Interesting idea!
  - sails 4mo ago
    Great thanks for giving it some thought, I’ll share a video as it’s all quite an early concept but saving me a lot of time on the bench!

killix 4mo ago

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dang 4mo ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079. Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but some of your posts (like this one) are getting classified that way.