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Robotics
Path planning, motion control, manipulation, and the geometry of getting somewhere.
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May 6, 2026RoboticsA visual primer on the three localization-and-mapping problems every mobile robot has to solve — pure localization, pure mapping, and the joint estimation problem (SLAM). Eight ...
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May 6, 2026RoboticsA visual primer on robot motion control — from path tracking on wheeled vehicles (pure pursuit, Stanley, MPC), through arm navigation (inverse kinematics, RRT-Connect), to aeria...
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May 2, 2026RoboticsA primer on self-awareness — the quiet but startling fact that you know there is a you — and how the question is being taken up by roboticists trying to give machines a self-mod...
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Apr 28, 2026RoboticsHow a robot, a car, or a vacuum cleaner decides where to go and which way to get there — the principal families of path planning algorithms, with interactive figures you can tou...
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Apr 23, 2026RoboticsAn interactive primer on what a robot actually is — the geometry of reach, the closed-loop control underneath every motion, the sensing that lets it know what it's doing, and th...