Funny how lots of #robotics companies are pushing for robotics in the _real world_. This is probably becoming a buzzword in the field. Now, we just need to determine what is _real world_ and what is _fake world_

This November, I had the opportunity to attend #ROSConFR in Strasbourg. Here is a summary of the discussions that happened during these two enriching days damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/roscon-...

ROSCon FR & DE 2025 highlights

Highlights from Strasbourg

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Vibe coding is when your QA Engineer doesn't know what is a unit test

Excited to announce UVT-RS, my first #robotics project in #Rust! 🦀 It’s a set of crates for working with Uncrewed Vehicle #Trajectory (UVT) files. This project was a great way to learn Rust crate development and robotics #data formats. More infos on #GitHub: github.com/IamPhytan/uv...

Got recently added to a development team where half of the developers are vibe coders. Breaking changes and half-implemented features are added to the codebase every day. Brb will try to enforce code protection rules and will add a test suite

There is most probably at least one person right now on Earth right now that reads and interacts with more LLM-written than human-written text on a daily basis. We live in a society

A great #opensource #Julia project for anyone working in #robotics or #AugmentedReality ! #Research #RoboticsResearch

William Guimont-Martin@willguimont.bsky.social · last yr.

🔧 AprilTags don’t have to be flimsy paper taped to cardboard With Tracker3D.jl, you can generate durable AprilTags for the real world — not just the lab 👉 GitHub: github.com/willGuimont/... 🖨️ Ready-to-print models: www.thingiverse.com/thing:6983741 #Robotics #ComputerVision #JuliaLang #3DPrinting

Future is not buying the latest tech devices, but reusing old devices. I had a Galaxy Tab tablet that was made obsolete with latest #Android versions. I recently recovered it and installed #LineageOS on it. Now, it is perfect for reading and annotating #robotics papers on the go! #research

📢 New Paper Alert! Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for #Semantic #Segmentation of High-Resolution #UAV Images for Natural #Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment Paper 📄: doi.org/10.3390/f160... Blog post 🌐: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/forests... Code 💻: github.com/norlab-ulava... #AI

Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution UAV Images for Natural Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Published in MDPI Forests journal!

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📢 New Paper Alert! Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for #Semantic #Segmentation of High-Resolution #UAV Images for Natural #Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment Paper 📄: doi.org/10.3390/f160... Blog post 🌐: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/forests... Code 💻: github.com/norlab-ulava... #AI

Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution UAV Images for Natural Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Published in MDPI Forests journal!

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📢 Two new blog posts! I've come across so many great resources lately that I had to start compiling them in one place. So here are two posts packed with links for anyone starting in #Robotics 🤖 and #AI 🧠. - 🤖: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/robotic... - 🧠: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/ai-reso...

Artificial Intelligence Resources

Learning resources for anyone interested in the vast domain of AI

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#TwitterDown 🍿

Vous êtes à la recherche d'un petit projet d'ingénierie à faire ce soir ? Venez sur Twitch voir @barbatronic.bsky.social enseigner les bases de @freecad.bsky.social ! C'est une bonne entrée de matière pour apprendre à maitriser la conception 3D ! www.twitch.tv/barbatronicl... #FreeCAD #CAD

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FreeCAD en multijoueur - Live 220 #CAO

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While I took a year off of robotics competitions, my robotics team is getting ready for #Eurobot 2025! Team #Chat #Robotique 🐱 will be participating in the largest #robotics competition in #Europe, in #France at the end of May. Stay tuned for more updates!

When in front of a new device: - Gamers: Can it run Doom? - Some companies: Can it run Java? Can it run C#? - Roboticists: Can it run #ROS? #Robotics #Programming

In 2023, in preparation to the holidayd, I designed and soldered about 20 small Christmas tree🎄 PCBs to give to my relatives. This year, I've cleaned it up and published it as an open-source hardware project: github.com/IamPhytan/ch.... #OpenHardware #PCBArt #Electronics #PCB #Embedded

Know anyone looking for a talented roboticist? My friend is skilled and ready to join a great team ! 🦾 Check out their CV and share if you can ! #Robotics #Hiring

Damien LaRocque@historicode97.bsky.social · 2y ago

(2/2) On the downside, I have been applying for #jobs since September, with few replies. The end of 2024 has been a moment of uncertainty for me, with many questions and few answers. I hope that 2025 will be a better #year to get hired. Until then, here is my resume: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/cvitae

(1/2) 2024 was a year with lots of ups and downs I had the opportunity to see a solar #eclipse, attend AI talks in #MILA, publish my first paper as a first author, finish a master's degree in robotics, compete in a European #robotics contest in #France, and attend #IROS2024 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Fresh from the press : our #IROS2024 paper on #Terrain #Classification using proprioceptive #sensor #data is now out on IEEEXplore doi.org/10.1109/IROS... #robotics #fieldrobotics #research

Proprioception Is All You Need: Terrain Classification for Boreal Forests

Recent works in field robotics highlighted the importance of resiliency against different types of terrains. Boreal forests, in particular, are home to many mobility-impeding terrains that should be c...

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A gift idea for all your #maker friends : storage boxes (cookie boxes may also work 🍪) #robotics #electronics #hardware #engineering

🖼️ A figure with #TikZ is worth a thousand words To present the underlying logic behind a #rosbag, I made a figure for my #thesis illustrating a field experiment and the timeline of a rosbag. Each tick represents a message and each color represents a #ROS topic. #Robotics #Research #Robot #LaTeX

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 #Rust #Rustlang 🦀

My code for this year's edition of #AdventOfCode I managed to get a nice environment to code in #Rust, thanks to the template of @fffelice.bsky.social github.com/IamPhytan/ad...

GitHub - IamPhytan/advent2024: Advent of Code 2024

Advent of Code 2024. Contribute to IamPhytan/advent2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Solved the first #AdventOfCode challenge. This year, I'll be mostly using #Rust to solve the problems

'Tis the Season for #Makers At this time of the year last year, I made some small #Christmas #tree shaped #PCBs. Everything was done with #FOSS: @freecad.bsky.social for the outline, Inkscape for the decorations, @kicad.org for the PCB design, PlatformIO for programming. #Electronics #Robotics

#Robotics packs Biggest: bsky.app/starter-pack... (full) Open source: bsky.app/starter-pack... Women: bsky.app/starter-pack... Vision: bsky.app/starter-pack... Distributed: bsky.app/starter-pack... AI: go.bsky.app/DfAoaJ1 More: bsky.app/profile/scot...

🤖ScottsRobots🤖@scottsrobots.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you like robots & makers here's a thread starter packs! go.bsky.app/9xL642E

Since finishing my M.Sc. degree in Comp Sci (Field Robotics) and attending #IROS2024, I have seen many use cases of #MachineLearning in robotics🤖, from #SLAM to #Control. Are there any good resources for people with a #robotics background who want to use more ML in their #research?

Clearpath Robotics #husky UGV electrical architecture diagram made with #TiKZ #latex #robotics #ROS #ROS2

Field #Robotics be like: "Robot, can you pick the coffee cup and place it on the table over there?" #Robotics #RoboticsResearch #Research

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