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I seem to recall a time when they all left earth and thanked us for all the fish...

In fact, during our interview with TechCrunch we let Kirsten drive our unmanned test vehicle from her browser at home!

I'd challenge this assertion. Rio Tinto has been on the forefront of automation, but there's a long list of equipment they operate that they don't have an immediate pathway to auto…

I always liked this reference as I thought it applied to a lot of ML stuff. Step 1: Collect Data, do some analysis, train a model or two Step 2: … Step 3: Profit!

Thanks so much! Glad to see you’re doing well!

Spot on. Except we’re just the onboard software (BYO HW)

Thanks - appreciate that. And thanks for reading my response in the right tone (I was nervous no inflection might do me a disservice). I’m not familiar with Tangram, but thanks for…

Thanks so much for the kind words! 1) We are mostly built on ROS (for better and worse) and are starting to migrate some containers to ROS2. Down the road I see an architecture tha…

To double click on the Twilio API example: In most robotics applications teams are building the equivalent of new speculative phone networks, building specialized infrastructure, a…

Might be a bit of a misunderstanding here. We’re not providing a sim world for you to do ML training on. Caladan would actually be a pretty terrible tool for that - it’s a static l…

Thanks for sharing Jaybridge. I hadn’t come across them but will reach out / try to dig into them.

Thanks so much for the note and the kind words. Would love to grab a coffee or something! My email is first @ polymathrobotics.com, but I'll reach out as well! Maybe we can play bo…

This is a good, well thought out point that I 60% disagree with (respectfully, of course). I think you're absolutely accurate in describing how robotics is today, and you're defini…

Ya video summary is nothing to sneeze at - I'll take my ML tasks as easy as determining if something is a person or a pixel /s Completely agree on decomposing hard things.

Ish. To _probably_ annoy you and everyone on this thread, I'll tell you how this works for a "large publicly traded company that has autonomous vehicles in mines." Essentially they…

To add to what Ilia said - re: - "The machine works good enough that it can perform the task until it can't anymore and then someone remotes-in to fix it?" The machine will work go…

Ilia gave you the more real (and specific answer) but I just want to call out that I love the Underpants Gnome reference. I used to cite it a lot and was frustrated by how many tim…

To add a somewhat easy sentance here - we're our actual product is delivered as SaaS (and it's not at Gmail pricing, it's more enterprise). Were you to become a customer we'd be pr…

Thanks so much! We had a fantastic designer, and our marketing/ops/cust success/everything else lead is really way better than we deserve!

You should get off the sidelines! Post-Starsky I wanted to run away from HardTech / FrontierTech and just do "easy SaaS stuff." I was deeply upset to realize I was too broken to do…

Thanks for the kind words! Ya - I can't imagine how hectic it was for you guys. I remember hearing Josh Switkes talk about hand building radars for pre-2010 autonomy. Re:booms/buck…

Thanks! It would be lovely if posting this one time in HN single handedly kicked off that ecosystem -> so everyone reading should quit their jobs and build robots /s More seriously…

To add to this - a neat thing about swarm robots is splitting the compute load between robots and figuring out how different robots move in conjunction with eachchoter. We're just …