srlake
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stephenlake.ca - co-founder of Thalmic Labs (YC W2013)
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comes from the latest Startup Genome report:
"Its startup density is second only to Silicon Valley and a full 50% higher than its closest follower. How can such a small city compete against cities 10 to 30 times their size such as Rio, Atlanta and Rome?"
http://blog.compass.co/waterloo-the-david-vs-goliath-of-star...
Will add the citation to the Medium post as well.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's been a few years since studying in this area, but one approach we used to use for modelling and control of manipulators (mostly industrial robotic arms) was Screw Theory.
Here's a recent paper using one of these approaches: http://www.intechopen.com/books/international_journal_of_adv...
One approach that could be used for a system like Big Dog would be a feed-forward control loop with kinematic/dynamic modelling of the robot. These approaches use knowledge of the system dynamics to predict the output based on changing inputs or disturbances.
Comment · 12 years ago
The eye is not focusing on that depth. The light coming out of the lens or LCD would be collimated / diffracted to form an image on the retina that appears to originate from a specific distance (or in this case, many different distances, multiplexed together).
Just like with Google Glass, where the image appears to be at a distance and your eyes do not focus on the actual screen.
Comment · 12 years ago
What were you hoping to do with the raw EMG data?
Comment · 12 years ago
Exact same hardware. Difference is software only.