Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Professor of Robotics, Director of Morph Lab, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London

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What I Learned About the Future of Robotics from a Week in China https://t.co/QsK4kDcYlX via @LinkedIn

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@nathancofnas Next time don't do research when you are hurt. You can avoid killing other people that way. You obviously channelled vengeance towards a selected person to confirm your biased views that got you hurt to begin with. Shameful.

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Kindle version free for only two more days! Ghost Circuits: How Intelligence Emerges from the Interaction of Body, Brain, and Environment https://t.co/2BhBE0rCWE #Amazon via @Amazon

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@MarwaEldiwiny Yesterday I gave this talk to the Design Engineering community at @imperialcollege, where I leaned more towards the philosophical side of Ghost Circuits: https://t.co/77Vv3iJAQs

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In this talk to the @ImperialDyson community yesterday, I leaned more towards the philosophical side of #GhostCircuits
https://t.co/NIIypybfdv

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@MarwaEldiwiny Look forward to give this public talk at 11am today in the Dyson Building Library, 25 Exhibition Road, South Kensington. #ghostcircuits

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@mutebi_69st @MarwaEldiwiny Conscious part of intelligent behavior is only one part. There are sub-conscious mechanical side to it too. This book tries to expose that. Hope you will enjoy the story.

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@MarwaEldiwiny Thank you, @MarwaEldiwiny. You did a wonderful job distilling a five-year journey into a short conversation. I am delighted that these ideas are reaching a wider audience and provoking discussion about ghostly nature of intelligence.

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Ghost Circuits… Machines That Think Without Code.

What if intelligence doesn’t come from code at all?

Computing comes from the tunability of materials and geometries.

I sit down with @thrishlab to share his journey of writing Ghost Circuits, it took him five years.

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Made a short home demo using Hexbugs and stones to illustrate a central idea behind Ghost Circuits.
https://t.co/3OUQGNFGcm

#GhostCircuits #EmbodiedIntelligence #Robotics #PhysicalIntelligence #ComplexSystems

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@elonmusk Beyond bigger models, the next frontier is intelligence that emerges through physical interaction. Mountain goat hooves, human fingernails, even a dead fish drifting upstream hold clues. That idea has shaped much of my robotics work, and inspired Ghost Circuits.

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Early readers are taking Ghost Circuits in directions I had hoped for but could never predict, from systems thinking to philosophy to embodied intelligence.

Grateful to see it reaching readers in 10 countries already.

#GhostCircuits #EmbodiedIntelligence #Robotics

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Signed the first copy. Felt so good to see a young person excited about going beyond the brain to understand intelligence as an embodied process.
#Design #Innovation #GhostCircuits

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I’m releasing Ghost Circuits book after more than fifteen years of research about how intelligence really emerges from movement and interaction. It invites you to rethink #intelligence. Now the Kindle version is available for pre-ordering: https://t.co/TBvNWbknek

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Our latest paper on a single piece mountain goat inspired hoof for passive slip reduction in #npjRobotics: https://t.co/LhXpNtmaBK
https://t.co/1h7TI6sp2s

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@ErikSolheim @SriLankaTweet @IndiainSL @PMDNewsGov @RW_SRILANKA @EspenBarthEide @jonasgahrstore @SLinNorway @NorwaySriLanka @NorwayMFA @anuradisanayake In Sri Lanka we cannot ask a court what to do.

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@emmamurphyitv Oh, so sad. I think it was Einstein who said that he knows about two infinite things. One is universe and the other is human stupidity. He was not very sure about the former. I think this photo shows human hatred is a third competitor. The sane world should act fast.

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Sportsmanship

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School vs Street Fight 🥊