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On-Chip Flying Robot Estimation At 2 Milliwatts
The human brain consumes ~10 W, while current humanoid robot brains consume power in the order of ~100 W (and trending upward, let alone datacenter brains).
This compute power is untenable for small robots. For example, the first untethere...
Should Robots Run Like Humans or Ostriches?
Ostriches and humans are both capable terrestrial runners, and they both weigh about ~100kg in rough order of magnitude. However, they look quite different when they run. Take a look at these snapshots of a human running compared to an ostr...
Are Robotics Policies Lookup Tables?
Generalist robotics policies (such as Vision-Language-Action or VLA models) have made frequent appearances on this blog. These huge models have performance and generalization characteristics that surpass our theoretical understanding, which...
How Thermals Constrain Robots, Chips, and Space Datacenters
In a prior article, I wrote about the principles behind designing record-breaking running robots. As I wrote then, one of the most helpful innovations over commercial humanoids appeared to be thermal:
What should we conclude from Honor’s...
What an Alternate History of the RISC vs. CISC Debate Teaches Us About Robotics
Recently, Elon Musk staked a claim that LLMs would eliminate the need for high-level computer programming languages, since they could compile directly to machine code.
Effectively, underlying that claim is a comparison between two pathways...
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Adjunct Prof @ UPenn | Chief Science Officer @ Ghost Robotics.
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