In the era that we don't need to pay for high price software. Just knowing basic principles, that would be fine.
I have to implement a basic magnetic simulation plug in for Freecad, which based on MagPySim lib.
Success rate has long been the primary metric for evaluating robot manipulation. What about speed?
Today, we introduce ⚡️B-spline Policy (BSP). Instead of predicting discrete fixed-rate action chunks, we parameterize actions as continuous B-spline curves. Together with our system design, BSP enables fast manipulation on low-cost robot arms.
This project is co-led by @xshenhan, check out his following threads for more details. 🧵
PS: one of my favorite parts of this project was the first time we saw the robots move significantly faster and smoother than the baselines. The videos below are all real time. 👇
Berlin police turned water cannons on citizens… to cool them down
Instead of dispersing crowds, officers used water cannons to give people a refreshing shower right in the city center.
@therealcarlin Silicone has two type of curing. If you use a 1:1 or 1:2 two components type, it will be a problem. Try platinum cure. SLA usually has 5% uncured resin. Also, it long chains plasticiser. However, it the free rad that race to inhibit Silicone curing.
Every pixel needs a depth test, but RAM is slow.
TinyGPU v3.0 hides that latency by running shader execution in parallel with Z-buffer access.
That jump—from a fixed pipeline in v2.0 to a 31-instruction pixel shader core in v3.0—happens without dropping a single frame 🚀
@hoops18888@malachimaxeyusa@dom_lucre the goldsmith was accused that he stolen the 25oz of gold. However, it was planted inside the epic of the building and was dissambled to proof his innocent.
A Lens That Takes Derivatives
US Patent Basis: US8610839B2 - Optical Processing System for Computing Derivatives.
In a 4f Optical Processor, the first lens takes the incoming field and forms its Fourier spectrum. At that middle plane, a tiny optical mask multiplies the spectrum by iξ. This is the derivative operator written in Fourier language
u(x) -> U(ξ) -> iξU(ξ) -> ∂u/∂x
Then the second lens brings the field back to the real space. What comes out is no longer just a focused beam. It is the spatial derivative of the input field, computed by light as it propagates.
So, this is the serious promise of optical computing. A physical optical train can perform operations that usually live inside numerical code: differentiation, filtering, convolution, edge detection, correlation, and many other linear transforms.
We implemented @karpathy 's MicroGPT fully on FPGA fabric.
No GPU.
No PyTorch.
No CPU inference loop.
Just a transformer burned into hardware, generating 50,000+ tokens/sec.
The model is small, but the idea is not: inference does not have to live only in software 👇
Unitree founder Wang Xingxing:
In robotics, locomotion and basic motion is mostly solved. But grasping and manipulation—anything related to haptics—hasn’t been solved. That’s the key bottleneck preventing them from being deployed at scale in factories and homes.
He says that simulation is much faster for training but for manipulation tasks you still need real-world training data—for now.