Juan Carlos Brenes
@jcbrenes.bsky.social
Lecturer and researcher at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.
Currently I play with robot swarms. Somedays I love them, others I hate them...
Currently I play with robot swarms. Somedays I love them, others I hate them...
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I genuinely cannot even communicate the massive difference between “how actual robotics people talk amongst themselves about humanoid robots” and “how the rest of the world talks about humanoid robots.”
The marketing hype is gonna get suuuuuch a reality check.
The marketing hype is gonna get suuuuuch a reality check.
June 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I genuinely cannot even communicate the massive difference between “how actual robotics people talk amongst themselves about humanoid robots” and “how the rest of the world talks about humanoid robots.”
The marketing hype is gonna get suuuuuch a reality check.
The marketing hype is gonna get suuuuuch a reality check.
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Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
June 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
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I knew the robots would strike back someday after all the kicking and hitting we’ve done to them.
Be nice to the robots.
Be nice to the robots.
May 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I knew the robots would strike back someday after all the kicking and hitting we’ve done to them.
Be nice to the robots.
Be nice to the robots.
Reposted by Juan Carlos Brenes
‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office
‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office
SACRAMENTO, CA—Believing that he was establishing a firm line between who he was as a person and what he did for a living, local man Jordan Wheeler, an employee of Creighton Industries who will ultima...
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April 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office
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$14k open source humanoid robot upper torso. Writing with a pen on a notebook that you're holding is an impressively challenging task! Also comes with an open, modular, python software stack for robot control and planning.
openpyro-a1.github.io
openpyro-a1.github.io
March 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
$14k open source humanoid robot upper torso. Writing with a pen on a notebook that you're holding is an impressively challenging task! Also comes with an open, modular, python software stack for robot control and planning.
openpyro-a1.github.io
openpyro-a1.github.io
So happy that our paper "Bioinspired cooperation in a heterogeneous robot swarm using ferrofluid artificial pheromones for uncontrolled environments" has been published at Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Journal. Check it out at iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
So happy that our paper "Bioinspired cooperation in a heterogeneous robot swarm using ferrofluid artificial pheromones for uncontrolled environments" has been published at Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Journal. Check it out at iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...