About
I build robots that have to work in real rooms, and I write about what that does to work itself.
I studied robotics and computer science at Tufts, where most of what I made had to survive contact with hardware: a robotic arm learning a policy in simulation and then having to run it on a real Kinova, a brain-computer interface deciding when a person should take over from an autonomous controller, a battlebot that won its competition mostly by not falling apart.
Lately I have been working on two things. One is Complex Cobotics, an attempt to put a cognitive architecture, rule-following, and plan-based motor control into a single collaborative robot. The other is Central, the network map on this site, which watches hosts and the agents running on them.
The writing on the blog is the other half of the same question. If machines are going to take over jobs nobody wants, someone should be careful about who ends up better off. Some of it is essays. Some of it is poems written at a pool, or in a laundromat.
If you want to build something, or you need a website like this one, write to me at hello@olimn.com. Code lives at github.com/ogoudey.