ROBOTICS

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Summary of Efficient Robot Grasping Research by Wisdom Agboh

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@ken_goldberg

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18 November 2022 18h38

Great summary of @WisdomAgboh
’s elegant research on efficient robot grasping.

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Amazon deploys robots to address human workforce shortage

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18 November 2022 13h01

Amazon can't get enough human workers — so here come the robots

Waymo vs Cruise: The Two-Player Autonomous Race

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18 November 2022 3h35

after all the dropouts this is effectively a two player race now, waymo vs cruise. if they wanted to data share they could. its just not even close to the 100th biggest problem they really need to solve

Single Player Mode Prerequisites for Autonomous Vehicle Platoons

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18 November 2022 3h34

spacing isnt the bottleneck, poor thing to optimize for. and i suspect working on single player mode is both necessary and sufficient prereq for car peloton anyway.

Autonomous Vehicles: The Future of Shared Mobility Without Steering Wheels

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18 November 2022 3h13

this isnt even the final form. once you can command cars by app (and voice, of course)… you can rip out the steering wheel and have people facing each other. @kvogt “it’s not a product you buy, it’s an experience you share.” No.
More.
Parking. https://
youtu.be/TGe4sOHYiXc

Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making in Complex Traffic Scenarios

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18 November 2022 2h58

this problem is incredibly complex.

here we are going in two lane traffic, but someone ahead of us has opened a parked car door on the side of traffic.

Our vehicle paused for them, waited for cars on our right to pass, and then *overtook* the human that was blocking us. pic.twitter.com/9J0nsnyfaB
— swyx 🇸🇬 (@swyx) 18 novembre 2022

this problem is incredibly complex. here we are going in two lane traffic, but someone ahead of us has opened a parked car door on the side of traffic. Our vehicle paused for them, waited for cars on our right to pass, and then *overtook* the human that was blocking us.

Autonomous Vehicle Handles San Francisco Hills Successfully

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18 November 2022 2h53

i got a nighttime joyride with @alexbowe recently and while we couldnt test heavy traffic, we pointed the car at the most challenging road we could think of inside the drivable zone – the incline squiggly road in Potrero Hill.

SF is a hilly city but was handled like a champ. pic.twitter.com/Eh2dBc8ARW
— swyx 🇸🇬 (@swyx) 18 novembre 2022

i got a nighttime joyride with @alexbowe recently and while we couldnt test heavy traffic, we pointed the car at the most challenging road we could think of inside the drivable zone – the incline squiggly road in Potrero Hill. SF is a hilly city but was handled like a champ.