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JANUARY 23, 2024

Not only do people end up with the wrong idea of how your robot functions and what it’s really capable of, it also means that whenever those people see other robots doing similar tasks autonomously, their frame of reference will be completely wrong, minimizing what otherwise may be a significant contribution to the field by other robotics folks.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

1:13 — It's not necessarily useful to draw that parallel between computers and smartphones and compare them to robots, because there are certain physical realities (like motors and manipulation requirements) that prevent the kind of scaling to which the narrator refers. But people keep on trying it anyway. A robot that learns.

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JULY 2, 2023

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Many of the designers preferred to define the computer as they went along.

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APRIL 2, 2022

The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. The combination of windowing displays, menus, icons, and a mouse that is increasingly used on personal computers and workstations. Cupertino, Calif., Graphical user interface (GUI).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This is especially true for home robots, which need to be low cost(ish) as well as robust enough to be effective in whatever home they find themselves in. This is definitely an exciting path forward for us,” says Angle. Robots tend to do best when you optimize them for one single, specific task.

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JULY 2, 2022

Here, however, the plan was to make it possible for users to bypass the SRAM and attach the processor directly to a DRAM, which would allow the chip to be designed into low-cost systems as well as to address very large data structures. Said CAD manager Nave guardedly: “A tool at that stage definitely has problems.

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