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by chfritz 2y ago
Sorry to hear, Kyle! But keep in mind: good ideas always survive, you just need to find the right business model for them. Maybe Basis didn't work as a VC funded business from day one. But take Foxglove again: they came out of the open
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by chfritz 2y ago
It's Moravac's paradox: Many of the things that are easy for humans (like doing dishes) are still very hard for computers/robots. That is why so far no one has been able to build a robot that can do the things people want hel
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by chfritz 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457213
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by chfritz 2y ago
> to do it all over the internet, but adds the associated serialization and transport latency. I wrote this blog post on that topic a while back after having seen various approaches robotics companies take and their shortcomings: https:
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by chfritz 2y ago
I've heard about you guys before. Nice application! What are you using for teleop/remote-monitoring? Did you build that yourself?
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by chfritz 2y ago
WebRTC is end-to-end encrypted, too, and unlike OpenMLS is designed for video streaming, so it's great for low-latency live viewing, even over terrible network connections. We are using it in robotic and built a component you can just
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by chfritz 2y ago
Funny, just yesterday I was complaining about OpenAI's gptbot's stupidity costing site operators too much: https://x.com/chfritz/status/1863689365740020012
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by chfritz 2y ago
Not new, but still very cool!
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by chfritz 2y ago
No pictures of the mobile robots?
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by chfritz 2y ago
> We find that robot adoption is accompanied by an increase in employment and retention and the relationship is strongest for nonregular care workers and monitoring robots. The share of specific tasks performed by robots increases with t
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by chfritz 2y ago
Interesting question! I think you should run an experiment! You could remote control a telepresence robot, call an Uber for it, ask the driver to load and unload the robot, and then continue remote controlling when you arrive wherever you w
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by chfritz 2y ago
Were you involved in the research of the video from Stanford you are showing?
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by chfritz 2y ago
> These QR codes are not reliably scannable! Isn't the whole point of QR codes to reliably transfer information from the physical world into the digital one without specialized equipment or software? They look pretty, sure, but so d
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by chfritz 2y ago
Cool. And I noticed that a surprisingly high number of songs are in Spanish. So I'll venture to hypothesize that this project will identify a correlation between musical taste and preference for how loud it is played, rather than acc
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by chfritz 2y ago
Re. infrastructure integration: it's always a cost-benefit analysis. I've worked at a robotics company where we integrated with doors and elevators. Doors was really easy, cost almost nothing, and didn't come with any regulat
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by chfritz 2y ago
Humanoids are not a threat to anyone. Not from China and not from anywhere. They'll fall flat on their face, all by themselves.
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by chfritz 2y ago
> this essay looks at how AI and automation are flattening the Phillips curve Sounds like a causal relationship between a very narrowly focused observation (more AI + robots) and a very general phenomenon (Phillips curve flattening). Thi
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by chfritz 2y ago
How is your approach different from Peanut's?
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by chfritz 2y ago
OK, so now we have: Basis Robotics (C++), Copper Robotics (Rust), and NComm (Rust) all trying to replace ROS. Shouldn't you guys be working together instead? Also, can't we just all instead improve ROS instead? I think Zenoh is le
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by chfritz 2y ago
Why limit this to arxiv papers? Why not any paper published online, e.g., via https://bibbase.org ? btw, very cool that you seem to have overcome the initial inertia of getting something like this going. The idea is not new, but
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by chfritz 2y ago
Very cool. Thanks for starting this!
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by chfritz 2y ago
Nice use case! Can you elaborate a bit more on robotics piece? What role does the robot play? I assume it's required to turn the part around for inspection. If so, how do you (automatically?) compute the grasping pointing? Also feel fr
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by chfritz 2y ago
It doesn't sound like a robot at all, because it doesn't "plan". A robot is an embodied cognitive agent. Embodied = has a body and is acting in physical space. Cognitive agent = it uses a sense-plan-act loop. This thing
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by chfritz 2y ago
It's not robotics, because it doesn't "plan". A robot is an embodied cognitive agent. Embodies = has a body and is acting in physical space. Cognitive agent = it uses a sense-plan-act loop. This thing may sense and act
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by chfritz 2y ago
I hear you loud and clear! In robotics, every company has the same make-vs-buy dilemma with respect to fleet management software (quite comparable to logistics). I've been in your shoes. This is why I believe in third-party solutions t
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by chfritz 2y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41193508
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by chfritz 2y ago
Yeah, well isn't that implied by 'solidly amateur'?
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by chfritz 2y ago
Would YOU like to work with your manager looking over your shoulder at all times? A good manager builds trust, rather than needing to rely on control.
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by chfritz 2y ago
Lots of applications for robots in solar farms! Besides installation they also do mowing (e.g., Swap Robotics) and inspection (e.g., OnSight).
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by chfritz 2y ago
Using webrtc is actually overkill in this case. What you really want is just the ICE part used by webrtc to establish a peer-to-peer connection. That's what tailscale does, too. Webrtc then adds a lot of media-related protocols on top

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