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by BotJunkie 1y ago
There are automated "alert brokers" that will filter these alerts to make them manageable- you can subscribe to phenomena that you're interested in and get only those alerts.
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by BotJunkie 1y ago
I visited there a few months ago, and satellites are not a big concern for Rubin in particular. It will visit every part of the sky over 800 times and add all those images together, and since the satellite trails won't cover the same t
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by BotJunkie 1y ago
Personally (and to some extent, professionally) I make a distinction between robotics and automation. In robotics, I look for a distinct, physically embodied system that can make decisions based on its environment and alter that environment
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by BotJunkie 1y ago
I'm the author of this piece, and I'm happy to tell you where it came from. I was at a robotics conference in Boulder last spring, where some folks from Lely presented a paper on their robotic code of conduct. I hadn't heard
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by BotJunkie 3y ago
I wrote this story, which originated entirely from a single picture on brr [1], an Antarctica blog that has wonderful, detailed descriptions about how the South Pole station functions. [1]: https://brr.fyi/
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by BotJunkie 3y ago
This paper is based on the performance at the 2022 event, but it took this long to write it up and get it published. The tracking system was used during all of the races for data collection of both the autonomous and human-piloted drones, w
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What 13 Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by BotJunkie 4y ago|0 comments
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iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy (2017)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
This is all the next step. If they end up putting together an actual mission proposal, they can factor in power budgets for specific science instruments, sun angles and seasonality at the landing site, etc, but they're not quite there
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
It's hard to get a good sense of scale from the image, but the solar panel on the concept is about 0.5m in diameter. JPL has run the numbers as part of their engineering study, and MSH would be able to recharge itself in a day.
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
You can see how the whole thing would fold up in the linked article, there's an image from the white paper that shows MSH fitting into the same size aeroshell Mars Pathfinder used. It would run on solar power and recharge itself, just
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
JPL has run the numbers on this as part of the engineering study. The solar panel shown in the concept image (in the center) charges a battery that gives MSH a 10km range or 5 minutes of hover time after charging for a day. It would have it
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
The most likely way for MSH to get funded in the near term is as part of NASA's sample return goals. 5kg of science payload is not insubstantial, but even if MSH's primary instrument was just a sampling tool, it could still do som
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
I asked Bob about this. There are a bunch of options, but one way to do it is that you use a hollow projectile that takes a core sample, and then you just reel back in the core while the rest of the projectile stays in place.
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
I interviewed Bob and wrote this article, so I can answer a few of these. I think JPL's idea is that MSH would be a dedicated helicopter mission, rather than piggybacking on some other mission, so it wouldn't be eating up the mass
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by BotJunkie 5y ago
If you're looking for a better resolution version of the concept image, as far as I know there isn't one. The original is here, and it's not great: https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/showBrowseImage.
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If Necessary, Mars Rover Curiosity Could Rip Its Own Wheels Off to Stay Mobile(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by BotJunkie 6y ago
I'm the author of this. It was certainly surprising to learn that a lot of what AVs are doing right now is limited by the amount of power available to the computers. It didn't make it into the article in full, but we were told tha
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by BotJunkie 6y ago
I wrote the article; thanks for this info. Since your sister has posted this publicly on her Twitter account, I'll happily add her name to our article if I can get in touch with her/BD to confirm. [Edited to add that we'll co
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JPL's Team CoSTAR Won the DARPA SubT Challenge: Urban Circuit Systems Track(spectrum.ieee.org)
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