Chad Jenkins

robotics researcher (robot learning), computer scientist, father, husband, learning caster board

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

@petersibley Yes, my year-long sabbatical at Willow Garage is ending in June. Don't forget ROS, PR2, PCL, and now http://t.co/NL6QH8a7Zh

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

@petersibley I guess so. I added the bit about MLS just for you.

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Need to post something. Robots... robots and people! and say something smart sounding, umm... Gaussian processes... moving least squares...

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

NatGeo found my twitter account! http://t.co/XGKChL8eWx

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Current favorite video: TPIR hip hop flip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFJcKKHn39w

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Sam was an excellent and honest researcher as well as a great guy to be around. His work was a source of inspiration for my own research.

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

A very sad day. Sam Roweis died http://bit.ly/7xqThO

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Our Nao fresh out of the box http://twitpic.com/iglkk

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Our 2 Nao robots have arrived and we are starting to control them via wiimote. http://twitpic.com/igl20

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

I got schloss-ed for robotic manipulation: http://bit.ly/xOuu4

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

However, the KCRW and Public Radio iphone apps (http://www.publicradioplayer.org/) can be frustrating. Maintaining connections problematic.

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

I love KCRW, from LA, PVD, and when traveling the world: http://bit.ly/24nGoi

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Also putting Brown Robotics videos on youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/brownrlab - although not completely up to date

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Brown Robotics now has 2 svn repos: research code (http://code.google.com/p/brown-rlab/), ROS pkgs (http://code.google.com/p/brown-ros-pkg/)

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

New Scientist did a great piece on IJCAI 09 Robotics: http://bit.ly/SpujM

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Guest editing issue of IEEE-RAM on robot learning in practice, http://www.ieee-ras.org/issue/show/id/14. Consider submitting!

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

Takeaway message: one of robotics' main next steps is enabling reproducible results that will eventually lead to "out of the box" solutions.

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

We also had a very interesting session about the convergence of academic, amateur, and commercial robotics.

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

The robot exhibition was also quite incredible. I was amazed how much the AI and engineering of robotics has advanced, esp the UMass uBot.

[Chad Jenkins @odestcj]

The event went really well. Great well-attended robt workshop with speakers from DARPA, MSR, RobotCub, Meka, Barrett, Willow Garage, iRobot.