PinnedPublished inTowards AIProfiling Neural Networks to improve model training and inference speedIn a previous post, we studied how to teach the Anki Vector robot to recognize human sign language. Specifically, we trained a custom…Dec 16, 2021Dec 16, 2021
PinnedPublished inProgramming RobotsIntegrating Vector with Open AI CLIPOpen AI rang in the new year with a major announcement: two new revolutionary pieces of research: 1)DALL-E which can generate images from…Jan 24, 2021Jan 24, 2021
PinnedPublished inProgramming RobotsLearn AI with a robotFor most of my career, I have been an engineer solely focused on the performance aspects of computer operating systems. Three years ago, I…Jun 1, 20212Jun 1, 20212
Published inProgramming RobotsMoving over to SubstackAs many of you know, I am an avid robotics enthusiast. I own Anki robots: Cozmo and Vector as well as the Bittle robot by OpenPetoi. Many…Aug 13, 2021Aug 13, 2021
Published inProgramming RobotsThe success of Anki Vector in research in Human Robotics Interaction (HRI)One of the few successes that Anki robots, Vector and Cozmo, (now owned by Digital Dream Labs) have had is in the exploration of Human…May 9, 20212May 9, 20212
Published inProgramming RobotsIntroducing my new pet dog, BittleI am a proud father of a new programmable robot, a pet dog Bittle. Bittle is the second robot made by Petoi, and a successor to Nybble…Mar 13, 2021Mar 13, 2021
My first 48 hours at ClubhouseSocial networks has never been my thing. I am inactive on Facebook, and don’t have an Instagram account. But I enjoy Twitter, mainly for…Feb 10, 2021Feb 10, 2021
Published inProgramming RobotsPlaying with OpenAI CLIP on multiple datasetsIn my last article, we examined how OpenAI CLIP can classify an image amongst multiple options of provided text (prompts) using a…Jan 28, 20211Jan 28, 20211
Published inProgramming RobotsUnderstanding how robots discover objects and their poseOne of the most popular videos in my YouTube channel is an illustration of how one can draw on Cozmo’s face by simply moving the cube…Nov 18, 2020Nov 18, 2020
Published inProgramming RobotsContributing to the Anki Vector datasetIn my previous post, I discussed how Roboflow.com features the Anki Vector public dataset, which can be used to train the Vector too…Sep 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020