Yeah, they were probably right about this. #ROSWorld #ROSWORLD2021

Isla (4 YO): daddy where do coin come from Pete: vending machines I: what’s a vending machine P: a machine that you put money into and it spits candy and coin at you I: A MACHINE THAT SPITS CANDY AND COIN AT YOU The saga to find the best vending machine in California begins.

I don’t remember what year when Elon Musk visited Stanford & told us that self driving cars were a solved problem already, 6+ yrs ago. To have the confidence of a tech bro who gets rich from tax subsidies, runs his factories like a plantation & threatens to leave when called out.

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MMitchell Here is proof GitHub CoPilot, which I believe is based on GPT-3, is both picking up on AND REPRODUCING my personally identifying information (PII) on the machine of another researcher in precisely the same overall research area as me: Robotics with AI.

Many standard probability distributions can be obtained by solving a maximum-entropy optimization problem over distributions. For example, the Gaussian maximizes the entropy subject to mean and covariance constraints. Jax source code: github.com/facebookresear… More resources: 🧵

The Steph Curry of sanitation #whatisnewyork

Deploying mobile robots is hard, so we don't do it that often. But how else are we going to start to understand how people interact with them? 🧵#hri2022

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A friend is looking to acquire a PS 5 in the bay area. I'm using Twitter to fish for leads.

Excited to be part of this year's Heidelberg Laureate Forum Heidelberg Laureate Forum! Looking forward to interacting with some of the brightest minds in math/CS (and visiting Germany 😎🍻).

Can we build highly dexterous robots without relying on a large number of costly, heavy, bulky motors? Using electrostatic braking, we've built dexterous manipulators with # DoF >> # of motors! Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02460…

Confusing? CONFUSING‽?! Confusing is trying to explain to a 4.5 year old that we can't go to the museum because of brand disparity. It's confusing that I now have to unironically say "Won't someone please think of the children?!"

It’s wild how Covid has killed a million people in this country, and our government and the rich used it to facilitate the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history, and instead of being furious about that people are angry at masks.

Ahalya Prabhakar’s and my paper on mechanical learning with Springer Nature in Nature Communications is out. Below you can see a robot using movement to learn how to perceive a rubber duck. 1/5 (open access, with supplement/movie) Web: nature.com/articles/s4146… ePDF: rdcu.be/cRIOq