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What an Alternate History of the RISC vs. CISC Debate Teaches Us About Robotics
Explorations in computing and robotics focused on power-efficiency and safety -- personal posts by Avik De, robotics Ph.D. and founder
Jun 18 • Avik De and Bharath Suresh
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The First Paradigm in Robotics & AI Research: Lessons from Computer Engineering
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Cache effects in object-oriented code: computer architecture meets programming
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Action Tokens: Fine-Grained vs. Behavioral Primitives
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The Loops and Hierarchies of Embodied Intelligence
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A Multi-Robot Brain is not like a Multi-Chip ISA
"Cross-embodiment" trained policies generalize well, but is that the best solution?
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How an LLM Changes its Mind
Safety and efficiency with universal approximators and Turing machines
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The First Paradigm in Robotics & AI Research: Lessons from Computer Engineering
Commoditization and end-to-end learning have consolidated robotics and AI. What's next for research labs?
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Honor's humanoid ran the fastest half-marathon: how did they do it?
Engineering isn't magic, it's a matter of tradeoffs
Apr 22 • Avik De
Building a reasoning hierarchical robotics pipeline from scratch
Part 5: A demo combining the best features of end-to-end and classical approaches
Apr 7 • Avik De
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