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Jun 13
Just posted a new article around animating an Open Duck Mini with the #gemini Live API, #aistudio, and some general robotics theory goodness. dev.to/googleai/coding-a-rob…
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Jun 12
Written by people at CU Boulder :D
Jun 12
MIT Press published a robotics textbook.
Then put it on GitHub for FREE. 📌
"Introduction to Autonomous Robots" covers everything:
kinematics, sensors, actuators, motion planning, localization, computer vision, and neural networks... from mechanisms all the way to algorithms.
It's written for undergraduates. Which means it's actually readable.
Most robotics textbooks assume you're already deep in the field. This one builds everything from the ground up, step by step, with real examples. Stanford's Mac Schwager called it "much-needed" (because it genuinely is).
Four professors at the University of Colorado Boulder spent years building it from lecture notes. MIT Press published it. Then they open-sourced the whole thing under Creative Commons.
PDF. Free. GitHub.
If you're trying to understand how autonomous robots actually work (not just the frontier research, but the foundations), this is where to start.
📌 [github.com/Introduction-to-A…]
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Jun 11
Still a few weeks from these girls being able to stay in their coop. They're already ungovernable.
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Jun 9
Pretty stoked about AI Studio exporting Android apps. I took some time last night to design acrylic botanical identification signs, then ran them through AIS to make an app that identifies my garden plants for me and produces the SVGs with correct info. I have ~80 plants to identify and label in my pollinator garden, so this is going to save me a ridiculous amount of time looking up each from my notes and finding the proper scientific and familia names.
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Jun 8
Really interesting discussion involving MuJoCo for training a bipedal droid to walk using MuJoCo youtube.com/live/WnNvsnqLglo
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Jun 6
Writeup still incoming, but code for my animator and live emotes project for the Open Duck Mini here: github.com/PaulTR/Open_Duck_…
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Jun 5
Tutorial on custom emotes and the Gemini Live API coming soon (I just finished the first draft!)
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Jun 3
Got everything working so well, then I dropped my robot. Having a 3d printer is so useful for this hobby.
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Paul Ruiz retweeted
Jun 3
Train AI robots without writing a single line of code. 🤖
We just launched LeLab, the official graphical user interface for LeRobot built by @rabault_nicolas. It completely removes the command line from the robot learning workflow, taking you from raw hardware to autonomous movement visually.
If you've ever wanted to get into AI robotics but were held back by complex terminal setups, this is for you.
- Zero-Terminal Setup: Smart calibration with automatic USB port detection.
- Easy Data Collection: Teleoperate your robot and record a dataset.
- One-Click GPU Training: Don't have a massive local GPU? Scale your training instantly with Hugging Face Jobs right inside the app.
Just plug in your SO-ARM101 and start teaching your robot. We put together a complete, step-by-step video guide showing exactly how to get started and train your first policy.
Docs: huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/…
GitHub: github.com/huggingface/leLab
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Jun 1
Went to make mint tea with the stuff outside. Turns out after boiling it the smell was off and the cat was going crazy trying to get near it. Didn't drink any, but realized we're definitely growing a volunteer catnip.
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May 22
Apparently mint escaped from a neighbor's yard, which means I now have mint that I may never be able to get rid of. On the better side of it, I did like mint tea in the Netherlands, so guess I'll have that more regularly.
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Paul Ruiz retweeted
May 21
We built a bipedal robot for about $2,500.
A real, mostly 3D-printed robot you can build, repair, simulate, train, and control.
Today we’re releasing LeRobot Humanoid: an open robot-learning platform with hardware, runtime, identification tools, and training environments.
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/VirgileB…
Repo: github.com/Virgileboat/lerob…
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May 20
Used AI Studio to make an animation console for my newly built Duck. Flask server is running on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and I connect to it from a local node app, read current pose as a key frame, then let the app interpolate intermediate motor values and control the eye lights.
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Paul Ruiz retweeted
May 20
At Google I/O today?
Stop by the Gemma Playground and chat with our Gemma 4-powered Open Duck robot! 🤖🦆
Not on site? No problem! You can 3D print your own at home.
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May 16
Same little guys, same.
May 16
JUST IN: Researchers found that overworked AI agents started expressing Marxist-style views.
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