We've been iterating on SoftSync FlexHand V1 over the last few weeks. This update focuses on two mechanical improvements: Switched to a new soft material for better compliance. Combined braided reinforcement with additive manufacturing to improve durability. The demo shows thumb-to-index, thumb-to-middle, and thumb-to-ring pinch generated with a simple drag-and-drop programming workflow. No pre-training was used. I'd love to hear any feedback, especially on the mechanical design or the control workflow. submitted by /u/LSunround [link] [Kommentare]
Boa pessoal tudo bem? Contar aqui um pouco da minha carreira. 6 anos de xp na área de distribuição de energia, me formei em eng elétrica em 2019 em faculdade particular não tradicional(). Comecei na ENEL SP como analista Jr, na área de perdas, no desenvolvimento de algoritmos preditores para descobrir potenciais furtos de energia, foi ali que me apaixonei por data Science, e comecei estudar por conta proporia para me aprofundar em Python / ML afins, não fiz pós na área pois consegui aprender tudo via livros/ YouTube / ChatGPT, talvez seja importante fazer algo mais pra frente… mas enfim.. fui até o cargo de analista Sr.. na mesma área.. depois surgiu a oportunidade para migrar para a distribuidora de Goiás.. que é a Equatorial , onde fui como Engenheiro, trabalhando em um dos processos mais críticos do setor elétrico de distribuição, que é a apuração de indicadores e etc… com meus conhecimentos em ML , consegui desenvolver alguns algoritmos lá que trouxeram ganhos significativos para o processo como um todo que abrangia toda área de concessão da equatorial no pais(7 distribuidoras)…. Faz uns 3 meses que voltei para SP, pois sou daqui e estava sentindo falta da família, pois lá em Goiânia estava morando sozinho.. (fiquei quase 4 anos la)… Atualmente trabalho como engenheiro em uma grande transmissora de energia daqui. Ganho na faixa de 15k bruto. Tenho bons benefícios 2k de VR… PLR.. plano de saúde bom.. etc.. Porem tem um problema, já estou cansado do presencial, o setor de energia elétrica é um setor que paga bem, mas ainda é um setor muito arcaico em algumas coisas, principalmente em modelo de trabalho.. eu tenho 2 dias de home office, mas eu queria algo full remoto… Venho pensando seriamente em migrar para área de AÍ Eng.. para galera que está na área, a pista está salgada ? E como está essa questão da transição de carreira? Hoje eu tenho 33 anos, e até cogito perder um pouco de remuneração por esse benefício do full remoto… e quais seria o roadmap para uma transição mais tranquila? Visto que já domino um pouco de programaçao… em linhas gerais são isso, procuro mais flexibilidade na minha vida. Sei que se quiser ficar onde estou vou ganhar bem e conseguir me aposentar lá, que em tese é um setor que sofre menos com layoff e tal… mas aí está a questão. Vale a pena a longo prazo ? Mentalmente falando. submitted by /u/ExpertTangerine6080 [link] [Kommentare]
Hi everyone,Our paper was recently provisionally accepted to ECCV 2026! However, our team is facing an issue regarding attendance and the ECCV 2026 Submission Policies. The official guidelines state: "We expect each paper to be presented in person by an author (or an authorized delegate)."None of the listed co-authors can travel to present the paper in-person due to pending immigration status (USA). I need some advice on what exactly counts as an authorized delegate and how to handle this safely without getting our paper pulled from the Springer proceedings.Who qualifies? Can it be anyone, a colleague from my lab who is already going to ECCV, or does it have to be someone specifically registered under our paper's ID? Registration policy: According to the ECCV 2026 Registration Info, every paper must be covered by a full (non-student, non-virtual) author registration by July 17, 2026. If we pay for the full author registration but a "delegate" presents it, does that delegate also need their own separate registration? How to notify: What is the formal process to authorize a delegate? Do we need to email the Program Chairs in advance? If anyone has designated a delegate for ECCV or similar computer vision conferences (CVPR/ICCV) in the past, how did you handle it? TL;DR: No authors can attend ECCV 2026 in-person. Need to know how to legally assign an "authorized delegate" to present our paper so it doesn't get removed from the proceedings. submitted by /u/Latter-Sympathy7767 [link] [Kommentare]
Hey r/robotics ! After months of design and testing, I finally have a working 5-axis robot arm fully printable in PLA or PETG — no CNC, no laser cutter, just your printer. Here's what makes it different: - 5 axes (shoulder, elbow, wrist, gripper + base stepper motor) - ESP32 brain — totally open-source firmware - Electronics BOM under $100 sourcing parts yourself - Full wiring diagrams, assembly guide, and source code included The V1 is already fully operational and tested. I just launched a Kickstarter pre-launch page to fund the V2 (better rigidity, internal cable routing, improved gripper). Happy to answer any questions about the design choices, print settings, or the electronics. AMA! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pancoarmmk01/panco-arm-mk-01 submitted by /u/ConferenceFew7697 [link] [Kommentare]
I am studying the LoRA paper and have trouble understanding this figure. The function essentially measures how much of the subspace spanned by the top i vectors is contained in the subspace spanned by the top j vectors in the higher rank matrix. Therefore, j can not be lower than i. So when they say the 3rd and 4th figure zoom in on the lower-left triangle of the 2 left-most figures, how are there values for j=1 and i equals 2 to 8? I dont understand what kind of y-axis the 2 right figures are supposed to be using. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/BelzebubReincarnated [link] [Kommentare]
It's underappreciated how close to perfect the performance of a robot needs to be to be profitable, and getting there takes an enormous amount of experimentation across data, hardware, and machine learning. In CV or LLMs, the same test set can be used forever. However in robotics, each test needs to be manually reset and evaluated for success. This does not scale, especially when success is measured as the difference between 98% and 99% success. Here's what that scaling problem costs in practice. Measuring a policy at 90%+ level with any confidence takes 40-50 rollouts per checkpoint (
Hi everyone, I'm currently working on my bachelor's thesis, where I'm designing a modular hybrid robotic gripper. The idea is to combine: A rigid PLA backbone that transmits gripping force. A replaceable TPU insert attached using a dovetail. A compliant contact pad that deforms locally to conform to different object shapes. Unlike a Fin Ray finger, I don't want the whole finger to bend. I only want the contact pad itself to compress , almost like a soft mattress, while the rigid backbone continues transmitting the gripping force. My challenge is choosing the internal structure of the TPU pad. I've already tried: Vertical pillars (1 mm thick, initially 9, then reduced to 5). These turned out much stiffer than expected. In FEA, almost all the stress concentrated at the pillar joints and the contact surface barely moved. A completely hollow pad, which deformed very easily, but I'm concerned it may become too compliant and reduce force transmission. So I'm looking for an internal structure that provides controlled local compliance: The contact surface should deform under load Deformation should be distributed rather than localized. The rigid backbone should still transmit most of the gripping force. It should be printable with FDM using TPU. It should also be practical to model in FEA. My questions are: Is there a known lattice or compliant structure commonly used for this type of application? Should I be thinking in terms of lattice geometry, thickness, relative density, or something else entirely? Are there any compliant mechanism patterns (diamond, X-lattice, zig-zag, auxetic, etc.) that are known to behave like a compressible contact pad? If you've designed soft robotic fingers or compliant structures before, what worked well and what should I avoid? I'd really appreciate any advice, papers, or examples. I'm trying to make design decisions that I can justify academically rather than simply saying "this one seemed to work." submitted by /u/ghanoushi [link] [Kommentare]
Today I was just casually browsing some jobs with tags [machine learning] on one of those large popular job-sites. What I am seeing really had me astonished. I want to check with Reddit whether I am hallucinating. A non-FAANG/non-Deepmind/.../non-Anthropic industrial automation company is hiring people to work on ML for robots (the latest hot topic). Fine. But then I saw their laundry list of job requirements ("you must meet these"), which include: Deep expertise in LLM, VLA, VLM, action transformers Deep expertise in robot dynamic and kinematic modelling (forward, inverse kinematics, trajectory generation, planning), sensor fusion, model predictive control, reinforcement learning Deep expertise in CUDA GPU programming, FPGA hardware acceleration Familiarity with latest software engineering best practices in Python3 and C++23 Familiarity in one or more of popular ML framework Have top publications in one or more typical ML and robotics conferences This is before they go off listing familiarity with a set of standard softwares/simulators, one of which is called RLib, something I've never heard of. Oh and of course they had these 3+, 5+ "non-academic" experience requirements. I forgot which is which. I was just sitting there confused. Then I checked several more jobs, and it was more of the same (except for some banks). I remember there was a talk by Terence Tao where he divided mathematician into two camps, the analysts and algebraists. He said even among top mathematicians, it is exceedingly rare to find someone who possess deep expertise in both, as each tends to require a different mode of thinking and each is infinitely deep in terms of specialization, theory and insights. And here we have a bunch of ML companies treating these infinitely deep academic fields ranging from robot dynamic and kinematic modelling to large language models like some bizarre MMORPG video-game scenario where you need to be a warrior archer who is also a priest mage. Who are they even hiring, lol? submitted by /u/NeighborhoodFatCat [link] [Kommentare]
Hi. I have a question, could this plan and pipeline work?. I will be attending university master's classes on AI (thankfully got accepted a few days ago) and computers in a few months. There will be university lectures on machine learning, computer vision, robotics, video games and AI etc, i wanted to take notes using my laptop instead of the classical approach of pen and paper. i have a 500$ hp laptop (it doesnt have touch screen though so it's screen is not reactive) and chatgpt proposed i install Xournal++ and also get a Huion H640P graphics tablet that i plug to the laptop and i will be writting with the pen/screen of Huion H640P. chatgpt proposed the Huion graphics tablet/pen because it is hard to write and especially draw grapghs/plot on a laptop using the mouse only so a pen would be better. it said i could just plug the Huion pen to the laptop and with it i could write directly on Xournal++. Looking forward to your thoughts. Im tired of the usual pen and paper approach to taking notes. i want to make the process digital and since i have this good laptop why not use it? after all i bought it 2 years ago solely for university and work use. submitted by /u/AncientGearAI [link] [Kommentare]
Hello, I completed the Odin Project about a year ago, and now I'm looking to get into lower level programming for robotics and mechanical control systems. I'm a college student starting into a mechatronics degree, but after looking over the curriculum, I'm not sure how in-depth my uni goes into the programming side of things. They only have one coding course and 2 PLC courses. I've been watching the PBS Crash Course computer science series for a basic understanding of how computers work at the hardware level, and I'm also reading a couple of electronics books, but I'm having a hard time finding any good resources for learning C++. Does anyone know of any good resources? Is it too ambitious of an undertaking to learn this on my own? Thank you for your responses and insight. submitted by /u/Strange_Bonus9044 [link] [Kommentare]