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by chfritz 3y ago
Stupid clickbait title. "The robot was designed to handle freshly-cast aluminium car parts." This means it was not an intelligent robot (one that senses its environment and changes its behavior accordingly), but an old-school indu
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People exaggerate the consequences of saying no to invites(arstechnica.com)
2 points by chfritz 3y ago|0 comments
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38635744
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by chfritz 3y ago
Being German and having left Germany I have a suspicion why: they enjoy complaining too much. However that also raises an important question that is only brushed on in the Context: how do you control for a "cultural bias to complain&qu
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by chfritz 3y ago
That's cool, but, uhm, isn't the hard part still to come?
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by chfritz 3y ago
I've worked with autonomous robots since 2001 and worked at six different robotics startups and after all this I'm a big believer of the idea of telerobotics. This is precisely because of the need for bootstrapping autonomy as you
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by chfritz 3y ago
Impressive! A video I found, showing what that looks like in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BdjxYUdJS8
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by chfritz 3y ago
"After the study, they felt more understood by the robot [..]" -- Which is to confirm that the whole point of AI research is to find that humans aren't intelligent either.
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup. Just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38285922 . Also a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31494328 .
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by chfritz 3y ago
Sorry but I don't believe what the title proclaims. And I don't even think the author does: "Thus, the large, high-quality dataset becomes a more complex challenge to solve in robotics, and deploying a fleet of robots in prod
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38267740
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by chfritz 3y ago
"cracking the home robotics market is hard" -- is it? Or is it just that no one has yet found a good application for robotics in the home besides cleaning?
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Amazon brings its home robot to businesses(techcrunch.com)
1 points by chfritz 3y ago|1 comments
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by chfritz 3y ago
I like the article for its contribution of numbers. And I think overall the narrative is valid at this point in time, however I also see three problems with it that show a certain degree of unfounded pessimism. 1: it assumes that the upfron
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233
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by chfritz 3y ago
How come no one has mentioned the Turing Test yet? This test has existed since, well, Turing. Are we already convinced that it's no longer enough? I suspect so. One should also mention the Winograd Schema Challenge, which has already b
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by chfritz 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38169402 .
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by chfritz 3y ago
Why are people surprised that they didn't go from a 1:1 ratio of drivers to cars (namely a safety driver in each car) to 0:1 (i.e., full autonomy without supervision)? That would have been highly irresponsible. Any step function that c
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by chfritz 3y ago
Lua is a programming language, JSON a data serialization format. Aren't those apples and oranges? What am I not getting?
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by chfritz 3y ago
Personally I'm excited they are doing this. Seeing how long we've had robot vacuums and how poorly they are still performance practically, I feel its time someone disrupts this market. I've worked at robotics companies with o
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by chfritz 3y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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Millions of Fruit flies will be dropped on Los Angeles(ktla.com)
47 points by chfritz 3y ago|43 comments
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by chfritz 3y ago
3GB = tiny? LOL. For comparison, a "mini" ubuntu image if 87MB ( https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mini-iso/daily-live/curren... ).
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by chfritz 3y ago
The title of this post is wrong and misleading. ROScribe is not a platform, let alone a robotic platform. It's a tool for generating code for a robotic platform (ROS). I feel the need to clarify this because there is a ton of peopl
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by chfritz 3y ago
They seem to be back up!
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by chfritz 3y ago
They are now showing it on their status page and tracking it: https://status.npmjs.org/

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