Microduck

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:12 AM UTC

_flux wrote: post #43

amelius wrote: post #25

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My main question is if it would be able to find its way back.

The biggest idea of this device seems to be that people would be able to write software to it, so this seems very likely to be in the domain of achievable things, because it has a camera and LIDAR.

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:13 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #33

tenuousemphasis wrote: post #29

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You can train it to do pretty much anything.

You can train deep learning to do anything. But the question is ... will it do it? And the next question: how reliably?

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:13 AM UTC

darkseed wrote: post #59

tamimio wrote: post #52

I hope it’s not built on ROS or rely on it in any way! Also kudos for bringing the joy of robotics back, since now most companies are riding the “defense” bandwagon and all robot companies I know suddenly are defense companies and visiting their sites is like the most dystopian thing ever, making it harder to find contract/jobs for people who want to make robotics for good not killing machines.

Its not https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:13 AM UTC

numpad0 wrote: post #163

lagrange77 wrote: post #80

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What would be so bad about relying on ROS in any way?

One horrifying facts I've read about it is that ROS1 is completely non-realtime and non-deterministic, so much so that its ROSBAG data logs aren't time or sequence accurate. So you can collect the sensor inputs and simulate programmatic behavior, but it's acucrate only if you were lucky. And everyone has to either use it or devote massive amount of resource recreating it right way because there's just immense amount…

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:13 AM UTC

usrnm wrote: post #126

dzink wrote: post #125

All AI images, a robot with no arms. Please improve on both. I will happily train one to pick things up and away with and after kids.

Just use the beak?