If you look at larger multi-copters, 6 and 8 are quite common since they allow for some redundancy, allowing for safe landing and/or continued flight following the failure of one of the rotors. As other replies note, 4…
Yeah, clean room implementation is the only way - and the route chosen by the aravis project that builds a FOSS implementation (which is a really great piece of software, way nicer to work with and easier to debug than…
Because these bodies want to maintain a moat for the products made by member companies. No more, no less. A great example of this is the GigE Vision/GenICam standards that are used by basically all machine vision…
> companies don't tend to be in the business of making highly advanced robots I think you've gotten hung up on the idea that making robots is the essential part of the problem. I'm not going to go as far as much of the…
> I don't need robotics experience, I need automaker experience. Their software is universally terrible. If you had any auto industry experience, you would know that the people responsible for the design and build of…
> Not that it has much to do with why automation fails to penetrate certain tasks. The reason why "long tail" tasks are often beyond automation is: piss poor ROI, calculated correctly. I actually don't think any of the…
Ford doesn't even make the top 5 - and however "low-tech" you think these companies are is the point, the overwhelming majority of new cars are being built by those "low-tech" automakers. The problem is not the limits…
> "Could be in principle" and "could be in practice, under technical and economical considerations in play" are two very, very different beasts. > Everyone in the industry learned that the hard way. The auto industry is…
> How long ago was your robotics experience? This is over the last decade at one of the largest automakers in the world. Naturally there is significant variation between individual lines and plants; some are newer and…
> Everything that could be done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor is already done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor. Hah! Hardly. I say this as someone whose…
> If you std::abort(), you'll get a useful stack trace in the core dump. If you crash from an unhandled exception, you don't. That's a pretty huge difference and is one of the reasons exceptions suck. All of this is up…
>> Are we talking HTP+Kerosene or UDMH+N2O4 here? > I’m thinking kerosene or even methane. UDMH is a toxic mess. Methane is absolutely out because of pressures/temperatures involved in keeping it liquid for any useful…
Where exactly is that storability not needed? In the VLS cells of USN warships? In the missile canisters of field-mobile SAM batteries being driven cross-country (which, for survivability on the modern battlefield need…
"Crews can't stop sweating on the flight deck" is exactly like saying "the middle east is hot and people sweat in the sun there". It has very little to do with the ships and everything to do with a climate that is hot…
Satellite launch is so much easier than storable SAM/ABM, the comparison is not really useful.
There are a bunch of other problems with this comment, but this part in particular is laughably wrong. > Our ships are designed to operate in the Pacific or North Atlantic, not the Persian Gulf. Nearly every type of…
The munitions that (1) are currently solid-fueled and (2) represent a stockpile depletion issue are all SAM/ABM interceptors. The only new liquid-fueled missiles worth the development effort are a liquid-fueled ramjet…
Famously, of course, not at all the case, with Enterprise, Saratoga, and Ranger all surviving. Yes, losses of pre-war carriers were severe (Lexington, Yorktown, Hornet, and Wasp).
Anyone who describes hydrocarbon fuels and high-test peroxide oxidiser as a stable and proven combination is a charlatan trying to sell you something questionable. If you want a proven liquid fuel combination that works…
The DGX Spark/GB10 has CPU cores from Mediatek (in a pretty odd cluster configuration, too).
The reality of robotics is that the existence of the theory often means little about practical feasibility. I have myself joked about problems being solved in the '80s, but the joke is really something closer to "all of…
No, if a process allocates an infeasible amount, malloc fails and the process needs to deal with the failure (which is what already happens, "malloc doesn't fail on Linux" is only really true for smaller-than-page-size…
> And I'm sure bipedal walking was also basically solved in the 1980's. It isn't even efficiently solved now, in the general case. Bipedal walking on approximately flat surfaces with minimal geometry constraints is…
Not necessarily. Depending on angle and water depth, multi-return LIDAR can give you returns from both water surface and the road surface beneath, in the same way multi-return LIDAR can produce returns from vegetation…
> The FDA's approval process is stymied by a CYA culture that fails to adopt the risk profile it needs to in order to potentially save large contingents of sick and dying. Except the history of FDA approval here is that…
If you look at larger multi-copters, 6 and 8 are quite common since they allow for some redundancy, allowing for safe landing and/or continued flight following the failure of one of the rotors. As other replies note, 4…
Yeah, clean room implementation is the only way - and the route chosen by the aravis project that builds a FOSS implementation (which is a really great piece of software, way nicer to work with and easier to debug than…
Because these bodies want to maintain a moat for the products made by member companies. No more, no less. A great example of this is the GigE Vision/GenICam standards that are used by basically all machine vision…
> companies don't tend to be in the business of making highly advanced robots I think you've gotten hung up on the idea that making robots is the essential part of the problem. I'm not going to go as far as much of the…
> I don't need robotics experience, I need automaker experience. Their software is universally terrible. If you had any auto industry experience, you would know that the people responsible for the design and build of…
> Not that it has much to do with why automation fails to penetrate certain tasks. The reason why "long tail" tasks are often beyond automation is: piss poor ROI, calculated correctly. I actually don't think any of the…
Ford doesn't even make the top 5 - and however "low-tech" you think these companies are is the point, the overwhelming majority of new cars are being built by those "low-tech" automakers. The problem is not the limits…
> "Could be in principle" and "could be in practice, under technical and economical considerations in play" are two very, very different beasts. > Everyone in the industry learned that the hard way. The auto industry is…
> How long ago was your robotics experience? This is over the last decade at one of the largest automakers in the world. Naturally there is significant variation between individual lines and plants; some are newer and…
> Everything that could be done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor is already done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor. Hah! Hardly. I say this as someone whose…
> If you std::abort(), you'll get a useful stack trace in the core dump. If you crash from an unhandled exception, you don't. That's a pretty huge difference and is one of the reasons exceptions suck. All of this is up…
>> Are we talking HTP+Kerosene or UDMH+N2O4 here? > I’m thinking kerosene or even methane. UDMH is a toxic mess. Methane is absolutely out because of pressures/temperatures involved in keeping it liquid for any useful…
Where exactly is that storability not needed? In the VLS cells of USN warships? In the missile canisters of field-mobile SAM batteries being driven cross-country (which, for survivability on the modern battlefield need…
"Crews can't stop sweating on the flight deck" is exactly like saying "the middle east is hot and people sweat in the sun there". It has very little to do with the ships and everything to do with a climate that is hot…
Satellite launch is so much easier than storable SAM/ABM, the comparison is not really useful.
There are a bunch of other problems with this comment, but this part in particular is laughably wrong. > Our ships are designed to operate in the Pacific or North Atlantic, not the Persian Gulf. Nearly every type of…
The munitions that (1) are currently solid-fueled and (2) represent a stockpile depletion issue are all SAM/ABM interceptors. The only new liquid-fueled missiles worth the development effort are a liquid-fueled ramjet…
Famously, of course, not at all the case, with Enterprise, Saratoga, and Ranger all surviving. Yes, losses of pre-war carriers were severe (Lexington, Yorktown, Hornet, and Wasp).
Anyone who describes hydrocarbon fuels and high-test peroxide oxidiser as a stable and proven combination is a charlatan trying to sell you something questionable. If you want a proven liquid fuel combination that works…
The DGX Spark/GB10 has CPU cores from Mediatek (in a pretty odd cluster configuration, too).
The reality of robotics is that the existence of the theory often means little about practical feasibility. I have myself joked about problems being solved in the '80s, but the joke is really something closer to "all of…
No, if a process allocates an infeasible amount, malloc fails and the process needs to deal with the failure (which is what already happens, "malloc doesn't fail on Linux" is only really true for smaller-than-page-size…
> And I'm sure bipedal walking was also basically solved in the 1980's. It isn't even efficiently solved now, in the general case. Bipedal walking on approximately flat surfaces with minimal geometry constraints is…
Not necessarily. Depending on angle and water depth, multi-return LIDAR can give you returns from both water surface and the road surface beneath, in the same way multi-return LIDAR can produce returns from vegetation…
> The FDA's approval process is stymied by a CYA culture that fails to adopt the risk profile it needs to in order to potentially save large contingents of sick and dying. Except the history of FDA approval here is that…