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Not in this case. With SpaceX they also need high (de-entry, Mach heating) and low temperature (cryo fuel & oxygen) resistance but in the case of Boom the surface won’t heat enough…

In interaction with anything rigid (or even deformable), position control does not mean anything. Force (or torque) control defines the actual physical interaction.

We actually have very cheap and pretty powerful position-controlled actuators (hobby servo motors). Attach any kind of spring and displacement measurement device (potentiometer, ha…

Also interested in answers to these two questions, as well as OpenCL performance in vanilla linux (iMX6 and above).

Did you go to Sherbrooke?

Sad to hear, I demoed a system with a Tobii sensor and it performed very well (even with my glasses). We were wondering about the effect of the constant IR blasts (are they continu…

I work for a company that makes robot arms for assistive purposes (Kinova) so I have some insight to share. 1st a voice setup with Alexa or similar can really help. With regards to…

The thing is that there was a lot about those old systems that was slow, so you were very, very careful how you programmed. You tended not to use vast library stacks, you went clos…

the real question of course would be how to train the AI to have varying levels of "expertise" (ie: penalize if score is too high)

Shorting insurance companies.

Very interesting, thanks for the share. One point I noticed not mentioned yet is that the images used for training are only 64x64! In the original google "grasping" research, the i…

I think this is mainly a "data" challege, how does Udacity plan on gaining an upper hand on this, especially with competitors like Uber and Tesla which gather data exponentially wi…

Not anymore, at least with CRISPR.

Do you know how long it took to train using that dataset and with what hardware configuration?

I would say: automation & AI: - automated cities & robotic workers - HARC working on the interfaces for the "workers" - basic income to replace minimum wage earners' incomes Would …

correction - those who PROJECT peace also nurture war.

In both of those examples likely the blame is on the company and not the worker. In Joe's case, any aluminium dust may stick on the broom - solution, two seperate 20$ brooms, probl…

Do you have any details of what and how you teach the kids? I am interested in setting something similar up in our neighborhood.

Maybe @sama needs to take some hint from him for his new cities project!

Seems like a good way to start a lawsuit...

This will be a great alternative for the kids instead of a complex PS4 or Xbox. Especially considering the controller size is much more in line with their hand sizes.

It could be 100 pages if you start from scratch with a permissive development plan... (from a city standpoint). Issues such as criminal law, state and federal taxation, etc are out…

Reliability is not an issue for industrial hydraulics (they rarely break down) however they do require a lot of maintenance, are filled with hot (dirty) hydraulic fluid and are noi…

I imagine this robot is only a few weeks/months away from being able to plug itself in to recharge from any household socket.

You mean Rat Things, right? http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)