Rohit

US-based conferences should probably prepare to offer e.g. presentation and comms devices for on-site use by international travelers who are motivated enough to attend but who can't safely bring their devices across the border.

Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not cities or the planet.

The abortion access restrictions are also a way to deter liberals from migrating to red states

Most of Indian IT was about boilerplate testing and coding. And the thing is that is exact what LLMs are trained on. So yes the number of IT jobs is definitely going to decrease

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

Two genocidal and begrudging allies in a slapfight (the Adani slap was clearly an unexpected sting for India).

This is so frustrating. Like it would be peanuts compared to the subsidised parking on city streets.
Libraries and museums should ideally be free in a civilised world

HortiBot: An Adaptive Multi-Arm System for Robotic Horticulture of Sweet Peppers Horticultural tasks such as pruning and selective harvesting are labor intensive and horticultural staff are hard to find. Automating these tasks is challenging due to the semi-structured greenhouse w...

Yes, our paper HortiBot was accepted and presented at IROS2024. The preprint and video link can be found here
www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/publications...

With the Lite6, we have mounted only 2 cameras ZED 2i and D405

The xArm7 API has improved a lot in the past 2 years. However, there is room for improvement

We have the xArm7 dual arm manipulation with a Lite6 arm as articulated head for active perception.
The xArm7s are good enough for our horticulture tasks. And the Lite6 arm has a bit of play in the wrist joints but for active perception it is ok

UFactory arms from China are also now increasingly popular. Esp if you are into high level research

I am Roboticist doing my PhD on Active Perception for Mapping and Manipulation. Evidential learning, semantic mapping, coupled active perception manipulation are topics of my interest

I am a left-liberal Bombay Mallu who likes to read, is a news junkie, likes history,economics

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Or the smallest ;)

Have heard about this. Also about the fact that teachers refer kids to Gymnasium based on their performance in German and Math. Which makes no sense at all to me. Of course the Gymnasium concept itself is a negative for upward mobility

I can speak English, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi. Can understand Tamil. Can read a bit of Sanskrit and French and yet the only language I am assessed on is German.
And having been fairly good at debates, presentations, I miss not being able to exercise those skills anymore

A strange thing that living in Germany did to me is to devalue the languages I know. Telugu/Hindi are exotic and there's little use to it here. My English, which is C2 is treated not on par with Anglophone English speakers and my German, well it's German.

Manhattan?

Yes I guessed it based on your tweets in Twitter about the river flow :)

Chicago?

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LLMs are a distraction when it comes to robotics. The papers using LLMs for robot planning ultimately have a robust control/planning backend for complex problems. Or else it is only tacking toy problems.

3/5 I quibble with "[the] introduction of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of robotics". No, it has created a lot of research papers, but not real hardened deployments, which is acutally their point in this paper--such deployments are physically dangerous.