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by ragebol 8y ago
RoboCup@Home [0] is addressing such home tasks, eg. cleaning a toilet, in a competition setting for universities. This is an attempt by last year's winners: [1]. Taking out trash is a new assignment this year. Note that in RoboCup@Home
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by ragebol 8y ago
Something like https://zenrobotics.com ? Sorting action in https://youtu.be/X_1sOPqM_VA
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by ragebol 8y ago
How would you recognize this and reach that conclusion if you were a different species, with different technology?
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But does that incentive need to be so huge? Would innovation not happen anymore when the incentive was reduced to say 1%, 10% or 25% etc? My motivation for doing what I do (which I'd classify as innovative) is not (just) the money. The
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by ragebol 8y ago
> Amsterdam won the bid to host the agency in 2017. From the article.
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by ragebol 8y ago
> Shame that this awesome visualization method he uses isn't used more ... The animation engine is on GitHub so you can make your own: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
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by ragebol 8y ago
alias continue-branch='charm $(git diff master --name-only)' # Open all files changed in the current branch wrt master in PyCharm function record-window { recordmydesktop --windowid=$(wmctrl -l | grep $1 | awk '
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by ragebol 8y ago
I blew through The Expanse series: https://www.amazon.com/Expanse-Boxed-Set-Leviathan-Calibans/... Hard Sci-Fi, the 8th book coming out next March 2019.
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by ragebol 8y ago
In the Netherlands, when I order a package and no one's at home when it's delivered, it either gets delivered to my neighbors or to the post office, with a note of where to pick it up. It's never left at my door AFAIK. How i
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by ragebol 8y ago
The Shinkansen is just so awesome. GF an I toured Japan last October and we did all inter-city travel by the Shinkansen, using a Japan-Rail pass, so you can just walk through the entry gates. The punctuality is also unparalleled. On a diffe
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by ragebol 8y ago
Aha, that explains.
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usually many options to pick 1 from.
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by ragebol 8y ago
> it takes about six minutes to vote Why does voting take 6 minutes? I think I used a voting machine maybe once in my life (in the Netherlands and apparently young enough to not have used those more often). Casting a vote on paper is us
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by ragebol 8y ago
We were a spinoff of TU Eindhoven. Robovalley went up into Holland Robotics recently, AFAIK, but Netherlands is small of course. Our company just stopped. I actually interviewed at https://www.robotcaresystems.com/ that no
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by ragebol 8y ago
The problem with a lot of robots in care is that if you pick 1 task, the MVP to solve that problem doesn't even have to be a robot. To automate 2 tasks, you will need 2 MVPs and this doesn't really scale. A single robot can do a l
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by ragebol 8y ago
We did have a business case worked out, even had a Dutch care insurance company as investor. Those insurers would pay for the largest bit.
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by ragebol 8y ago
I worked at a small robotics company in the Netherlands, technical university spinoff. We did tests in care homes for elderly and disabled people and we actually had clients that wanted to use our robots and were very positive about them. B
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by ragebol 8y ago
I think CMake is quite established. I don't like these kind of holy wars (I like vim too :-)) but to get stuff done. ROS lets me do that. I've seen several times that companies write their message passing stuff on top of ZeroMQ, m
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by ragebol 8y ago
The build system is mostly macros on top of cmake. But not ideal indeed. Same for the IDL. ROS 2.0 [0] should adress a lot of those issues, also stuff like real-time, improved security, no roscore needed. On the robots I worked with, I nev
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by ragebol 8y ago
Home service robots, controlled via 'natural' language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0P2MqmQ-DI Wall cleaning robot (still testing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dMjt_Pj4og There are some
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by ragebol 8y ago
What do you use to version-control your notebook?
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by ragebol 8y ago
Not entirely what you want but still a step in the direction: https://www.explainshell.com/about
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by ragebol 8y ago
I think that usually, stuff like desalination plants aren't over-dimensioned but are built to consume some known amount of power. There's nothing to consume near-free power because that capacity would sit idle the vast majority o
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by ragebol 8y ago
The Right To Be Forgotten is to protect citizens while China's censorship exists to protect its government.
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https://cybe.eu/
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by ragebol 8y ago
Sounds a bit like the German tank problem {0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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by ragebol 9y ago
In turn, Visual Studio has great support for C# because of the C#'s great type system.
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by ragebol 9y ago
/r/SpaceX [0] is very very informative [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/
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by ragebol 9y ago
These are exactly the sort of tasks we're aiming for in RoboCup@Home [0, 1]. With recent advances, this is getting closer and closer. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73enwaP0tJk [1] http://robocup.org&#x
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by ragebol 9y ago
Luckily, lot's of commercial parties seem very interested in ROS 2.0 which gives me some good hopes for a less painful transition from ROS 1 to 2 than from Python 2 to 3... But given the federated development of many non-OSRF maintaine

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