October 19, 2024 – Greg Schumacher – Behavior Trees on “gdgt”

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00:21:02 Robert: Federal Way Makerspace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsK-jUUkG3c 

00:24:16 Robert: https://snocomakers.org/ 

00:24:21 James Newton: As usually, I will plug the local San Diego Maker Space: https://sdcolab.org/about/

00:25:37 Robert: Snohomish Makerspace Robotics https://www.meetup.com/snoco-makers/events/303993788/ 

00:26:57 Robert: https://bainbridgebarn.org/studios/techlab/

00:28:49 Doug Bell: I still have a black screen, other than the strip of members’ windows to the right. If I move my mouse to the top, I see, “You are viewing Lloyd Moore’s screen”. View Options has Fit to Window and Side-by-side Mode selected.

00:31:21 Lloyd Moore: Replying to “I still have a black…”

I hear everything fine.

00:32:00 Lloyd Moore: Burien Makerspace video shown during the meeting.

00:37:24 Robert: Replying to “I still have a black…”

Discover BARN: Your Makerspace and Learning Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRvas-grXoo 

00:41:56 Robert: Bainbridge BARN has everything

00:42:47 Robert: South King County Tool Library?

00:43:19 Robert: https://www.southkingtools.org/ 

00:43:46 James Newton: If you want a really fun set of videos to watch, check this out. They are applying Chat GPT to robot training and having amazing success:

https://mobile-aloha.github.io

00:43:49 Doug Bell: Replying to “I still have a black…”

Still black.

00:44:46 Robert: Perhaps the Gig Harbor Boat Shop could cut such wood. Gig Harbor BoatShop

00:45:27 Robert: Gig Harbor BoatShop

00:45:31 Robert: https://www.gigharborboatshop.org/ 

00:51:06 Robert: Meet the world’s ‘most advanced’ humanoid robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIxSON5l9Ec 

00:52:05 Robert: I put ChatGPT on a Robot and let it explore the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sSp1PQtVQ 

00:53:25 Robert: I Built a Robot that Plays FPS Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-EbjGSRyKA 

00:54:27 Robert: Inside the world’s first humanoid factory, where robots could eventually build themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHtEGCBgzjE 

00:55:54 Robert: Underwater Walking of the Honey Badger Legged Robot | MAB Robotics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p66uxwUgboY 

00:56:50 Robert: Ameca and Azi having a chat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3Y_iKmgZA 

00:58:02 James Newton: I want to know how they get those eyelids to blink that fast. It’s a really really hard problem.

00:58:24 Robert: Elon Musk Puts Optimus to Work at ‘We, Robot’ Event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Ze7OSfZzE 

00:59:42 James Newton: FYI, the Optimus robots are being teleoperated at the We, robot event. Not the walking, that’s them, but the arms and voice and “expressions”. They are WAY over promising at this point. But the motor / actuators are pretty cool.

01:01:58 Robert: New in Spot & Orbit 4.1 | Boston Dynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hrYzgP_Lg4 

01:03:30 Robert: Hand Gestures Control Robot Vehicle https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fYdIhH9FVZY 

01:04:56 Robert: Did you exercise today? G1 Humanoid Robot Achieves a Jump Distance/Height Ratio of Over 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JE7mNYz2A 

01:07:33 Robert: Humanoid Robots Head Home: Meet NEO Beta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzPz7pg28Zg 

01:09:21 Robert: OpenAI’s Newest “NEO Beta” AI Robot Humanoids Debut This New 20 Axes Tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4TPtxLRc4 

01:10:43 Robert: Meet Neo Beta | This Humanoid Robot Is Ready to Live With You! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSG8JBnqVjM 

01:11:22 Steve Kaehler: https://www.1x.tech/neo 

01:11:27 Robert: Federal Way Makerspace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsK-jUUkG3c 

01:12:33 Robert: LimX Dynamics Launches Multi-Modal Biped Robot TRON 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lypkwll6tM 

01:15:30 James Newton: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/15/google-buy-nuclear-power-ai-datacentres-kairos-power 

01:16:17 Robert: Tinker Camp: A new way of learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KL_u6z95Os 

01:22:35 James Newton: “Stuff be going wrong” is the universal constant in robotics. This is such a great way to manage that! Really great talk.

01:32:04 Robert: Michelle Pope: Empowering Innovation: Makerspaces in Entrepreneurship and in a Creative Economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUVIQbLeU0 

01:34:51 Steve Kaehler: https://pirobot.org/blog/0030/ 

01:38:02 Robert:

01:42:33 Steve Kaehler: GROOT: https://www.behaviortree.dev/groot/ 

01:51:49 Robert: Tacoma All You Can Eat Sushi with Robot Server https://www.tiktok.com/discover/tacoma-all-you-can-eat-sushi-with-robot-server 

01:55:35 Robert: Tacoma senior living community welcomes robot helper R2D2

01:57:03 Robert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjYFqa3ttQ 

01:57:09 Keith Baston: I use that server robot as a skin in VR chat. I didn’t know it was a real robot !

02:09:02 Robert: https://www.batestech.edu/bates-technical-college-introduces-its-first-wayfinding-robot/ 

02:12:19 James Newton: RasPi to USB -> CAT5 adapter to CAT5 on PC resolves the need for wifi.

02:18:48 Robert: Sunday Evening Make at the OlyMEGA space Sunday, October 20, 2024

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM PDT Sunday Evening Make at the OlyMEGA space, Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 6:00 PM | Meetup https://www.meetup.com/olymega/events/303756231/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events 

02:20:25 Robert: OlyMEGA (Olympia Makers, Engineers, Geeks and Artists) is a nonprofit (501c3) Makerspace located in Olympia, WA. We are dedicated to fostering creativity, collaboration, and education.

The mission of OlyMEGA is to create an open maker community in the Olympia/Thurston County.

Members are encouraged to share their knowledge, learn from others, and create from what they learn.

To get further information about membership levels please see the following site.

https://www.patreon.com/olymega

02:21:41 Keith Baston: Of course, you can run python on the raspberry pi pico directly

02:27:46 Robert: THANK YOU for your presentation!

02:28:03 James Newton: AMAZING PRESENTATION!