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robotics/ML researcher: http://members.loria.fr/jbmouret/
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Comment · 5 years ago
Provide examples of uses of words and possibly help us rephrase in a more idiomatic way. Basically, answer "how do people use this word usually?"
A bit like linguee but for scientists: (at the bottom of the page): https://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/search?source=auto&q...
Comment · 5 years ago
We're doing exactly this to teleoperate humanoid robots on high-latency networks!
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01281
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3u4ot3aIyQ
"We introduce a system in which a humanoid robot executes commands before it actually receives them, so that the visual feedback appears to be synchronized to the operator, whereas the robot executed the commands in the past. To do so, the robot continuously predicts future commands by querying a machine learning model that is trained on past trajectories and conditioned on the last received commands. In our experiments, an operator was able to successfully control a humanoid robot (32 degrees of freedom) with stochastic delays up to 2 seconds in several whole-body manipulation tasks, including reaching different targets, picking up, and placing a box at distinct locations."
Comment · 6 years ago
Related (not historic stuffs necessarily): https://www.softwareheritage.org/
Comment · 6 years ago
Here is an open-source, 3D-printable quadruped with (almost) direct-drive actuation:
https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io
Comment · 7 years ago
we are also happy with waf, wich gives us a lot of flexibility (e.g., use python libs that are not build-related) and use a language that the team already know.
(https://waf.io)
Comment · 8 years ago
Gaussian Processes are very good when you do not have much data (< 500 points) and and your data are low-dimensional (<10 dimensions). For this, they are more accurate than anything else, and they provide both a prediction and variance.
Comment · 8 years ago
Most journals are OK with authors posting a paper on their own website, especially the 'pre-print' (pre-review, pre-layout). See: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php
(even Nature is OK for all the pre-prints, arxiv and your own website).
Comment · 8 years ago
This is the "net" of a senior researcher (very competitve position, people are about 35-40 year old, about 10-15 years after a good PhD) in public institutions (see http://www.emploitheque.org/grille-indiciaire-etat-Directeur...) and more than most "researchers" in public institutions (http://www.emploitheque.org/grille-indiciaire-etat-Charges-d... -- 5-10 years after a PhD).
This includes researches in CS and AI.
Comment · 8 years ago
My definition: there is no clear limit, but there is a spectrum of ‘roboticity’ that corresponds to the spectrum of ‘versatility’. The more versatile a machine is, the more a robot it is.
For instance, a blender is not versatile. But a cooking robot can do more things (it blends, but also cooks, mixes, etc.). This is why the cooking robot is more a robot than a blender.
This is similar in industry. You have specialized machines, which can do a single thing. Industrial robots are more versatile because we can program them to achieve different task (e.g. when there is a new model of car). The ultimate robot would be as versatile as a human. This kind of humanoid would have the highest level of ‘roboticity’.
Comment · 9 years ago
... or more than 100 top French researchers for 3 years (Research Director, top pay at the end of the career is about 6000 euros / ~10000 for the company).
[source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directeur_de_recherche_au_CNRS ]
Comment · 10 years ago
check also iceSL, which is developped with 3D printing in mind: https://members.loria.fr/Sylvain.Lefebvre/icesl/
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Original article: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6312/aaf5239
Comment · 10 years ago
The actual rule for European grant (H2020) is "either publish in open-access or put the paper on arxiv or similar archives". We can still publish in non-open access journals provided that we put the paper on an open access repository.
Comment · 10 years ago
In H2020 projects (EU projects), the maximum embargo that can be "tolerated" is 6 months (then it has to be on arxiv) [12 months for social sciences]. However, all journals are OK with an arxiv post of the submitted (pre-review) manuscript, and this is what every authors should do.