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I feel like robotics in a few years is what big data is today. So what is it that one should be doing to get ready to jump into robotics in a few years?
by madiator 13y ago
I feel like robotics in a few years is what big data is today. So what is it that one should be doing to get ready to jump into robotics in a few years?
- dsl 13y agoYou mean everyone and their grandmother will be a robotics expert? Most of the people I run into today working on "big data" could still effectively fit the workloads in a single powerful MySQL box.
- madiator 13y agoMay be thats true, but it is irrelevant to my question.
- DigitalJack 13y agoarduino, lego mindstorms, linear algebra Actually, a lot of the math for 3d game engines transfers directly to robotics. Matrix coordinate transformation to/from each joint to figure out where/how to place it.
- textminer 13y agoPragmatic question: I'm a mathematician by training, and currently a machine learning engineer at a large Silicon Valley company. How does one in their late twenties jump into really working robotics? Machine learning was something I could watch lectures on, read papers about, work the math out on paper, then spend years in Python/C++ getting a feel for across various problem domains. Physical robots don't seem as accessible.
- nl 13y agoComputer Vision is a good gateway. Also, play with Arduino some.
- Qworg 13y agoSensors. All robots need sensors and your math background will serve you well.
- thearn4 13y agoIt sounds like we have the same background - I'd recommend getting into microcontroller programming with a platform like Arduino, and maybe look into some computer vision libraries (OpenCV is great).