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Provide examples of uses of words and possibly help us rephrase in a more idiomatic way. Basically, answer "how do people use this word usually?" A bit like linguee but for scienti…

We're doing exactly this to teleoperate humanoid robots on high-latency networks! Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01281 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3u4ot3aIyQ "We int…

Related (not historic stuffs necessarily): https://www.softwareheritage.org/

Here is an open-source, 3D-printable quadruped with (almost) direct-drive actuation: https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00093.pdf Vid…

we are also happy with waf, wich gives us a lot of flexibility (e.g., use python libs that are not build-related) and use a language that the team already know. ( https://waf.io )

Gaussian Processes are very good when you do not have much data (< 500 points) and and your data are low-dimensional (<10 dimensions). For this, they are more accurate than anythin…

Most journals are OK with authors posting a paper on their own website, especially the 'pre-print' (pre-review, pre-layout). See: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php (even Natu…

This is the "net" of a senior researcher (very competitve position, people are about 35-40 year old, about 10-15 years after a good PhD) in public institutions (see http://www.empl…

My definition: there is no clear limit, but there is a spectrum of ‘roboticity’ that corresponds to the spectrum of ‘versatility’. The more versatile a machine is, the more a robot…

... or more than 100 top French researchers for 3 years (Research Director, top pay at the end of the career is about 6000 euros / ~10000 for the company). [source : https://fr.wik…

check also iceSL, which is developped with 3D printing in mind: https://members.loria.fr/Sylvain.Lefebvre/icesl/

PDF: http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/201310...

Original article: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6312/aaf5239

The actual rule for European grant (H2020) is "either publish in open-access or put the paper on arxiv or similar archives". We can still publish in non-open access journals provid…

In H2020 projects (EU projects), the maximum embargo that can be "tolerated" is 6 months (then it has to be on arxiv) [12 months for social sciences]. However, all journals are OK …

Nature (and the vast majory of journals) is OK with posting on arxiv the pre-review manuscript, but not the post-review (ie, with the changes made after the comments by the reviewe…

Most of the robots in the manufacturing industry are following a pre-set sequence. Why do we call them a robot whereas most people would not call a dishwasher a robot? I think what…

We discuss a lot on mailing lists, live in conferences, and with personnal e-mails.

By finding an existing system that shares common properties with the academic system but in which there is no competition for prestige. I don't know, maybe documentation writing? O…

In France (and I suspect in many European countries), most modern buildings/renovated buildings have large mailbox in which many packages fit (e.g. books). The mailman has a 'unive…

A while ago, Internet was about people sharing things, freely. And it was an interesting place! Not all the content has to be written by professional writers and a lot of code is a…

As a scientist, I am most efficient when I skim with a goal . Typically, I would search for an answer to a very specific question (related to my own research) and just ignore whole…

4. The grant agencies (e.g. the NSF) could use some of its money to pay some labs to reproduce the study during the end-of-grant review process, in the same way as it already pays …

> Why can't people simply publish negative results? In addition to the other comments: because a negative result is usually much more likely than a negative one, it is very hard to…