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Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

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  1. WoodenChair · · focus · HN ↗
    I thought this was going to be a post about learning robotics.

    It seems more like a post about hooking up an LLM to a pre-made robotic arm.

    While that's interesting, I wouldn't have labeled the post "my robotics crash course."

    Unfortunately, I think this is in some sense another example of LLMs substituting for actual learning. While I'm sure the author is learning something about robotics from doing these experiments, I doubt it's as much as he would have gotten from say reading a couple chapters of an introductory robotics for dummies book.

    1. jvanderbot · · focus · HN ↗
      True in the sense of learning fundamentals from the bottom up.

      Only partially true in the sense of learning how the system might work and doing problem-directed learning.

      Eventually, all the problems you'll encounter getting an arm automated are self-discovered, and if you stick with it, you'll learn all you need eventually.

      So this is basically step 0.

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