Half-Built-Robots

Part 3 of the migration notes, except it is not a migration. The blog's theme became three npm packages, the blog now installs its own look from the registry, and a second site exists to prove it.

Táltos is the shaman of Hungarian mythology, and one of the marks of a táltos was being born with an extra finger. So I built one…

Part 2 of the migration notes: wiring the Astro build into Cloudflare Pages, moving one load-bearing redirect before touching DNS, the ninety-second flip, and what the next two weeks turned up.

The cutover post said what changed. This one is how: the guardrails, the pipeline, and the day Claude built a pixel-faithful copy of a website that does not exist.

The blog is now a static Astro site on Cloudflare. Same posts, same look, same feed. If I did my job right, you did not notice.

Collaborative robots are showing up in more and more manufacturing facilities, but there's a persistent gap between what cobots can…

Collaborative robots in manufacturing have a straightforward promise: pair a human with a robot, let each do what they're best…

Collaborative robots in manufacturing sound great on paper: a human and a robot sharing a workspace, each doing what they…

Back in Fall 2018, I took CS 534 (Computational Photography) at UW-Madison. The term project was open-ended, so naturally my…

When you're working on human-robot interaction research, there's a surprisingly mundane problem that keeps showing up: the robot needs to…