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Podcast Summary Imagine standing amidst the roaring cheers of the WM Phoenix Open Pro-Am, right on the edge of the iconic 16th hole, famously referred to as the Roman Coliseum. As a top 100 golf teacher, I found myself in the thrilling role of caddying for the event's sponsor, guiding him through an exhilarating day of golf. With the crowd's energy electrifying the air, my player stepped up like a true "king for the day," delivering a shot just nine feet from the hole, raising the temperature of excitement even higher. Join us as we recount this unforgettable experience, rubbing shoulders with golfing greats like Jordan Spieth and Joel Damon, and having a swing at the prestigious "shot at glory" contest. We then transition from the greens to the cutting-edge world of golf technology, unraveling how advancements in simulators and launch monitors are reshaping the game. Brands like TrackMan, Foresight, and Full Swing Golf have made professional-level practice accessible right from the comfort of home. Esteemed instructors Ryan Manzella and John Dunnigan share their insights on integrating these technologies into their teaching studios, showing how even a modest home setup can significantly boost your game. We'll also walk you through the essentials of creating your own home golf simulator, ensuring that these innovations aren't just for the pros but for anyone eager to improve. But what if you're not ready to invest in high-tech gadgets? Fear not, as we explore simple yet effective ways to refine your golf swing without breaking the bank. From using basic tools like the Orange Whip or even a flexible rope to enhance swing technique, to incorporating quality putting mats and feedback tools like the RoboCup, we offer practical advice for honing your skills at home. As a new golf season edges closer, these tips and strategies will help shake off any offseason rust, ensuring you're prepared to hit the course with renewed confidence and skill. Tune in for a blend of stories, expert advice, and practical insights designed to inspire your golfing journey. Podcast Summary Imagine standing amidst the roaring cheers of the WM Phoenix Open Pro-Am, right on the edge of the iconic 16th hole, famously referred to as the Roman Coliseum. As a top 100 golf teacher, I found myself in the thrilling role of caddying for the event's sponsor, guiding him through an exhilarating day of golf. With the crowd's energy electrifying the air, my player stepped up like a true "king for the day," delivering a shot just nine feet from the hole, raising the temperature of excitement even higher. Join us as we recount this unforgettable experience, rubbing shoulders with golfing greats like Jordan Spieth and Joel Damon, and having a swing at the prestigious "shot at glory" contest. We then transition from the greens to the cutting-edge world of golf technology, unraveling how advancements in simulators and launch monitors are reshaping the game. Brands like TrackMan, Foresight, and Full Swing Golf have made professional-level practice accessible right from the comfort of home. Esteemed instructors Ryan Manzella and John Dunnigan share their insights on integrating these technologies into their teaching studios, showing how even a modest home setup can significantly boost your game. We'll also walk you through the essentials of creating your own home golf simulator, ensuring that these innovations aren't just for the pros but for anyone eager to improve. But what if you're not ready to invest in high-tech gadgets? Fear not, as we explore simple yet effective ways to refine your golf swing without breaking the bank. From using basic tools like the Orange Whip or even a flexible rope to enhance swing technique, to incorporating quality putting mats and feedback tools like the RoboCup, we offer practical advice for honing your skills at home. As a new golf season edges closer, these tips and strategies will help shake off any offseason rust, ensuring you're prepared to hit the course with renewed confidence and skill. Tune in for a blend of stories, expert advice, and practical insights designed to inspire your golfing journey. Chapters Caddying at the WM Phoenix Open (00:01) Caddying at the WM Phoenix Open Pro-Am for the sponsor, experiencing the lively atmosphere of the 16th hole, and competing alongside pros like Jordan Spieth. The Advancements of Golf Simulator Technology (13:00) Golf technology has rapidly advanced, allowing for year-round practice with realistic simulators and topographical hitting mats, as discussed by top instructors. The Benefits of Golf Simulators (20:13) Sim in a box allows for convenient at-home golf practice with valuable feedback on key data points. DIY Golf Practice Without Technology (34:17) Nature's surprises and opportunities in golf, debates on green reading techniques, and tips for practicing at home. Improving Golf Swing at Home (43:01) Enhance golf swing with training aids like flexible rods and ropes, promoting body-initiated technique for improved game. Chapters (00:00:02) - Caddying at the WM Phoenix Open (13 Minutes) This chapter captures an exhilarating day at the WM Phoenix Open Pro-Am, where I had the privilege of caddying for the event's sponsor. As a top 100 golf teacher, I recount the unique experience of carrying a hefty golf bag through the lively atmosphere of the 16th hole, famously known as the Roman Coliseum. The crowd's energy was palpable as my player, dubbed the "king for the day," was introduced with much fanfare. He skillfully navigated the pressure, hitting an impressive shot just nine feet from the hole and making a birdie putt amidst roaring cheers. Our day continued with a solid performance alongside pros like Jordan Spieth and Joel Damon, culminating in a memorable moment as we returned to the arena for the "shot at glory" contest. (00:13:01) - The Advancements of Golf Simulator Technology (7 Minutes) This chapter highlights the rapid advancement of golf technology, especially in launch monitors and simulators. We discuss how the technology available for home use now rivals professional models from just a few years ago, making it possible for golfers to practice year-round regardless of climate. The conversation touches on various brands, such as TrackMan, Foresight, and Full Swing Golf, noting their significant improvements and the enhanced feedback they provide. Additionally, we explore the advancements in hitting mats, which now offer realistic topographical features to mimic course conditions. We also share insights from top golf instructors like Ryan Manzella and John Dunnigan, who have built state-of-the-art teaching studios using cutting-edge technology. Lastly, we consider the costs and components involved in creating a home golf simulator, emphasizing that even a modest setup can provide substantial benefits for improving one's game. (00:20:14) - The Benefits of Golf Simulators (14 Minutes) This chapter explores the concept of "sim in a box," an $8,000 setup that allows golf enthusiasts to practice at home using a launch monitor and simulator. We discuss how this setup can fit conveniently in a garage, providing an easy transition from practice to playing on a real course. The focus shifts to the valuable feedback provided by these simulators, highlighting the key data points golfers should pay attention to, such as club path, carry distance, and total distance for drivers. While advanced metrics like spin rates are available, we emphasize the primary information most useful for the average golfer to improve their game. (00:34:17) - DIY Golf Practice Without Technology (9 Minutes) This chapter explores the incredible experiences and unexpected opportunities that come from a life dedicated to teaching and playing golf, such as caddying at the WM Phoenix Open. I reflect on the joy and surprise of these moments and the fortunate position I find myself in, living and teaching in sunny Palm Springs. We touch on the ongoing debates in golf about green reading techniques, specifically the efficiency of AimPoint Express compared to traditional methods. Additionally, practical tips are shared for improving your golf game at home without high-tech simulators. From investing in quality putting mats to utilizing tools like the RoboCup for feedback, these strategies offer ways to practice effectively indoors. The conversation is a mix of personal anecdotes and practical advice for golf enthusiasts looking to hone their skills. (00:43:02) - Improving Golf Swing at Home (2 Minutes) This chapter focuses on enhancing your golf swing using various training aids. We explore the benefits of using a flexible rod with weighted ends, such as the Orange Whip or similar tools, which can be swung using your arms due to their heft. However, the emphasis is on using a simple rope as a training aid, highlighting how its flexibility requires you to initiate your swing with your body, thereby promoting a more effective technique. We encourage listeners to practice at home, reiterating the importance of patience and persistence as a new golf season approaches. By incorporating these tips and reflecting on the insights shared throughout the episode, you can improve your game and shake off any rust from the off-season.

Je hebt robotvoetbal met kleine robotjes. Dat ziet er best overtuigend uit. En je hebt robotvoetbal met mensachtige robots. Die robots zijn vaak meer bezig met vallen en opstaan dan met voetballen. Toch denkt René van de Molengraft dat menselijke robots rond het jaar 2050 wereldkampioen kunnen worden. In een wedstrijd van robots tegen mensen. Voorlopig zitten de humanoïde robots nog op het niveau van het kluitjesvoetbal. Maar een kleinere soort, op wieltjes, maakte het een team van twaalfjarigen al heel erg moeilijk. Wat moeten de robots nog bijleren? Hoe leer je ze kluitjesvoetbal af. En waarom moeten robots eigenlijk de vorm van een mens hebben? Want simpelweg lopen op twee benen blijft moeilijk voor robots. Van de Molengraft is hoogleraar robotica aan de TU Eindhoven. En hij is al vele jaren betrokken bij de Robocup.   Gast René van de Molengraft Links Robocup Video YouTube Hosts Ben van der Burg & Mark Beekhuis Redactie Daniël Mol See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Een nieuwe #nerdland podcast! Met deze maand: Mangaanknollen! Robocup! Golfstroom! Crowdstrike! Antikythera! Supervulkanen! Cape Canaveral! En veel meer... Shownotes: https://podcast.nerdland.be/nerdland-maandoverzicht-augustus-2024/ Gepresenteerd door Lieven Scheire, met Els Aerts, Bart Van Peer, Hetty Helsmoortel en Peter Berx. Montage en Mixing door Els Aerts en Jens Paeyeneers. (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:11) Els en Hetty in Cape Canaveral (00:03:09) Grote hydrotherme explosie in Yellowstone (00:08:14) Geologische bron van zuurstof ontdekt? (00:18:36) Google wetenschappers simuleren ontstaan van het leven (00:26:45) AI nieuws (00:27:04) AI kan Alzheimer detecteren in je stem (00:34:31) RoboCup afgelopen (00:46:24) Zelfstrikkende veter app van Nike discontinued (00:54:44) Is de Golfstroom aan het stilvallen? (01:07:31) Crowdstrike update (01:13:46) Wordt een astronaut vice-president? (01:17:46) Silicon Valley nieuws (01:17:58) SpaceX mag het ISS vernietigen (01:25:17) Falcon 9 ontploft, Starlink satellieten gaan verloren (01:27:24) Musk gebruikt je tweets voor zijn Grok AI (01:32:44) Starliner astronauten zitten nog steeds vast in het ISS (01:39:17) Amazon teleurgesteld dat we Alexa niet gebruiken om aankopen te doen (01:41:39) Sam Altman sponsort Universal Basic Income experiment (01:45:39) OpenAI lanceert SearchGPT (01:47:46) Nieuwe ontcijfering Antikythera (02:02:01) Oudste scheepswrak op zee ontdekt (02:03:01) China brengt maansample terug naar de aarde (02:04:50) Chinese raket komt los en vertrekt tijdens static fire (02:06:07) NASA vervangt afgewerkte maanrover van 450 miljoen dollar door 500 kilo dood gewicht (02:07:02) Doom runs on Fleshlight (02:13:07) Dan toch geen Dr. Who - Star Trek crossover (02:22:03) Studie UGent over faagtherapie haalt voorpagina Nature Microbiology (02:23:37) Gents bedrijf Trince wint The Spinoff Prize van Nature Magazine (02:25:33) Man keert terug na 11 jaar ban uit chatforum, gaat onmiddellijk verder met discussie (02:29:44) AANKONDIGINGEN (02:29:51) Op 22 september is er weer Mathfest in Brugge: www.platformwiskunde.be (02:30:34) Live Nerdland podcast op 26 april in de Arenberg (02:31:26) Hetty gaat op tour met Missie 2024: www.hettyhelsmoortel.be (02:33:19) Lieven speelt laatste AI shows: www.lievenscheire.be (02:33:44) Nerdland voor Kleine Nerds op 27 december: www.nerdland.be (02:35:02) Engelstalig AI book! www.lievenscheire.com (02:35:11) Sponsor RESILLION

Ime tedna je Matej Veber, mentor ekipi Mechatronics Rescue Team, skupini dijakov 4. letnika na Srednji šoli za strojništvo, mehatroniko in medije Šolskega centra Celje, ki so na svetovnem prvenstvu v robotiki v nizozemskem Eindhovnu premagali vso konkurenco ter v kategoriji reševalnih robotov osvojili prvo mesto. Z izjemnim rezultatom na letošnjem svetovnem prvenstvu so si zagotovili tudi vstopnico za RoboCup 2025.Kandidata sta bila še: Branko Ravnak, predsednik plavalnega kluba Slovenske Konjice, ki je s sodelavci in v sodelovanju z Mednarodno zvezo društev IAHD Adriatic na Javnem mestnem kopališču pripravil jubilejni, že 20. "Dan brez vozička" in akcijo "Voda vzame, voda vrne". Z opozarjanjem na posledice nepremišljenih skokov v vodo so na dogodek povabili tudi starostnike, varovance različnih zavodov in druge invalide. Iris Breganski, atletinja, ki je na svetovnem prvenstvu gluhih na Tajvanu, s 4405 točkami osvojila srebrno kolajno v sedmeroboju. Tako je dvema zlatima in srebrni kolajni, ki jih je leta 2018 osvojila na mladinskem svetovnem prvenstvu v Bolgariji ter lanskima bronastima na evropskem članskem prvenstvu na Poljskem, dodala še šesto odličje z velikih mednarodnih tekmovanj.

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Tím bratislavských stredoškolákov, ktorý si hovorí LNX Robots, dosiahol nevídaný úspech. Podarilo sa mu vyhrať európske majstrovstvá v robotickom futbale – RoboCup. O tom, ako sa im to podarilo a ako ich roboty fungujú prišli do podcastu SHARE porozprávať členovia tímu, žiaci Tomáš Kováč a Matúš Mišiak a ich mentor Radoslav Kováč. Rozpráva sa s nimi redaktor Živé.sk Maroš Žofčin.Najbližšie sa LNX Robots chystajú na svetový pohár. Ich úsilie môžete podporiť aj v crowdfundingovej kampani.V podcaste hovoríme aj o týchto témach:Ako sa stane, že stredoškoláci namiesto TikToku trávia čas stavaním robotov.Aké nástroje využívajú, odkiaľ majú súčiastky a či robotov aj sami programujú.Že do roku 2050 by malo nastúpiť mužstvo robotov proti majstrom sveta vo futbale.Ako môže amatérske roboty vylepšiť generatívna umelá inteligencia.Téme sa venujeme aj v týchto textoch:Video zo západu LNX Robots v nemeckom Hanoveri. Futbalový turnaj medzi robotmi a ľuďmi.Futbalový turnaj s humanoidnými robotmi dnes.Slovenský robotický pes smeruje k prvým klientom. Máme už tretí prototyp, hovorí tvorca (rozhovor)

Was es kostet, die Industrie klimafreundlicher zu machen, warum Roboterfußball so herausfordernd ist und warum die Sichtweise einer Ratte sehr lehrreich sein kann, erfahrt ihr in der neuen Podcast-Folge.

Nuove soddisfazioni per il De Pretto di Schio, protagonista di ottime performance a livello nazionale. L'ITIS cittadino ha infatti dominato le competizioni della RoboCup Junior 2024, dal 10 al 13 aprile, una gara dove i robot creati dagli studenti si sono cimentati in un percorso simulato di soccorso, destreggiandosi tra ostacoli e salvando vittime virtuali. L'istituto ha confermato così la sua eccellenza, mantenendo il titolo di campione nazionale nella categoria Rescue Maze e raggiungendo ottimi risultati anche nelle altre categorie.

Správy. Téma dňa. Voľby prezidenta 2024 - informačný cyklus RSI. Súťaž RoboCup 2024. Spomienka na Máriu Kišoňiovú - Hubovú. Tenistka Renáta Jamrichová.

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⭐ My guest today is Jack Morrison, CEO and cofounder at Scythe Robotics. Scythe produces “state-of-the-art autonomous machines that handle the mowing while your team works hard to keep your properties looking their best.” As they say, “Smell Grass, Not Gas: Leave the noise and gas fumes behind. With all-day battery life and high torque electric motors, Scythe gives you power without pollution.”  Jack is a liberal arts-trained technical leader with a passion for fast code and connecting computers with the physical world. He was previously the Co-Founder and CTO of Replica Labs, which focused on 3D scanning and was acquired by Occipital. Links: Jack - https://www.linkedin.com/in/morrisonjack/ Scythe Robotics - https://www.scytherobotics.com/ ---

Robot Soccer takes center stage as Jon Krohn and Dário Catarrinho, Secretary of the Dutch Nao Team and an AI student at the University of Amsterdam, discuss the intricate machine learning that enables robots to navigate the field, make decisions in real-time, respond to sound, and compete against each other in a gripping display of skill and strategy. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/734 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

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Victoria is joined by guest co-host Joe Ferris, CTO at thoughtbot, and Seif Lotfy, the CTO and Co-Founder of Axiom. Seif discusses the journey, challenges, and strategies behind his data analytics and observability platform. Seif, who has a background in robotics and was a 2008 Sony AIBO robotic soccer world champion, shares that Axiom pivoted from being a Datadog competitor to focusing on logs and event data. The company even built its own logs database to provide a cost-effective solution for large-scale analytics. Seif is driven by his passion for his team and the invaluable feedback from the community, emphasizing that sales validate the effectiveness of a product. The conversation also delves into Axiom's shift in focus towards developers to address their need for better and more affordable observability tools. On the business front, Seif reveals the company's challenges in scaling across multiple domains without compromising its core offerings. 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Transcript: VICTORIA: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Victoria Guido, and with me today is Seif Lotfy, CTO and Co-Founder of Axiom, the best home for your event data. Seif, thank you for joining me. SEIF: Hey, everybody. Thanks for having me. This is awesome. I love the name of the podcast, given that I used to compete in robotics. VICTORIA: What? All right, we're going to have to talk about that. And I also want to introduce a guest co-host today. Since we're talking about cloud, and observability, and data, I invited Joe Ferris, thoughtbot CTO and Director of Development of our platform engineering team, Mission Control. Welcome, Joe. How are you? JOE: Good, thanks. Good to be back again. VICTORIA: Okay. I am excited to talk to you all about observability. But I need to go back to Seif's comment on competing with robots. Can you tell me a little bit more about what robots you've built in the past? SEIF: I didn't build robots; I used to program them. Remember the Sony AIBOs, where Sony made these dog robots? And we would make them compete. There was an international competition where we made them play soccer, and they had to be completely autonomous. They only communicate via Bluetooth or via wireless protocols. And you only have the camera as your sensor as well as...a chest sensor throws the ball near you, and then yeah, you make them play football against each other, four versus four with a goalkeeper and everything. Just look it up: RoboCup AIBO. Look it up on YouTube. And I...2008 world champion with the German team. VICTORIA: That sounds incredible. What kind of crowds are you drawing out for a robot soccer match? Is that a lot of people involved with that? SEIF: You would be surprised how big the RoboCup competition is. It's ridiculous. VICTORIA: I want to go. I'm ready. I want to, like, I'll look it up and find out when the next one is. SEIF: No more Sony robots but other robots. Now, there's two-legged robots. So, they make them play as two-legged robots, much slower than four-legged robots, but works. VICTORIA: Wait. So, the robots you were playing soccer with had four legs they were running around on? SEIF: Yeah, they were dogs [laughter]. VICTORIA: That's awesome. SEIF: We all get the same robot. It's just a competition on software, right? On a software level. And some other competitions within the RoboCup actually use...you build your own robot and stuff like that. But this one was...it's called the Standard League, where we all have a robot, and we have to program it. JOE: And the standard robot was a dog. SEIF: Yeah, I think back then...we're talking...it's been a long time. I think it started in 2001 or something. I think the competition started in 2001 or 2002. And I compete from 2006 to 2008. Robots back then were just, you know, simple. VICTORIA: Robots today are way too complicated [laughs]. SEIF: Even AI is more complicated. VICTORIA: That's right. Yeah, everything has gotten a lot more complicated [laughs]. I'm so curious how you went from being a world-champion robot dog soccer player [laughs] programmer [laughs] to where you are today with Axiom. Can you tell me a little bit more about your journey? SEIF: The journey is interesting because it came from open source. I used to do open source on the side a lot–part of the GNOME Project. That's where I met Neil and the rest of my team, Mikkel Kamstrup, the whole crowd, basically. We worked on GNOME. We worked on Ubuntu. Like, most of them were working professionally on it. I was working for another company, but we worked on the same project. We ended up at Xamarin, which was bought by Microsoft. And then we ended up doing Axiom. But we've been around each other professionally since 2009, most of us. It's like a little family. But how we ended up exactly in observability, I think it's just trying to fix pain points in my life. VICTORIA: Yeah, I was reading through the docs on Axiom. And there's an interesting point you make about organizations having to choose between how much data they have and how much they want to spend on it. So, maybe you can tell me a little bit more about that pain point and what you really found in the early stages that you wanted to solve. SEIF: So, the early stages of what we wanted to solve we were mainly dealing with...so, the early, early stage, we were actually trying to be a Datadog competitor, where we were going to be self-hosted. Eventually, we focused on logs because we found out that's what was a big problem for most people, just event data, not just metric but generally event data, so logs, traces, et cetera. We built out our own logs database completely from scratch. And one of the things we stumbled upon was; basically, you have three things when it comes to logging, which is low cost, low latency, and large scale. That's what everybody wants. But you can't get all three of them; you can only get two of them. And we opted...like, we chose large scale and low cost. And when it comes to latency, we say it should be just fast enough, right? And that's where we focused on, and this is how we started building it. And with that, this is how we managed to stand out by just having way lower cost than anybody else in the industry and dealing with large scale. VICTORIA: That's really interesting. And how did you approach making the ingestion pipeline for masses amount of data more efficient? SEIF: Just make it coordination-free as possible, right? And get rid of Kafka because Kafka just, you know, drains your...it's where you throw in money. Like maintaining Kafka...it's like back then Elasticsearch, right? Elasticsearch was the biggest part of your infrastructure that would cost money. Now, it's also Kafka. So, we found a way to have our own internal way of queueing things without having to rely on Kafka. As I said, we wrote everything from scratch to make it work. Like, every now and then, I think that we can spin this out of the company and make it a new product. But now, eyes on the prize, right? JOE: It's interesting to hear that somebody who spent so much time in the open-source community ended up rolling their own solution to so many problems. Do you feel like you had some lessons learned from open source that led you to reject solutions like Kafka, or how did that journey go? SEIF: I don't think I'm rejecting Kafka. The problem is how Kafka is built, right? Kafka is still...you have to set up all these servers. They have to communicate, et cetera, etcetera. They didn't build it in a way where it's stateless, and that's what we're trying to go to. We're trying to make things as stateless as possible. So, Kafka was never built for the cloud-native era. And you can't really rely on SQS or something like that because it won't deal with this high throughput. So, that's why I said, like, we will sacrifice some latency, but at least the cost is low. So, if messages show after half a second or a second, I'm good. It doesn't have to be real-time for me. So, I had to write a couple of these things. But also, it doesn't mean that we reject open source. Like, we actually do like open source. We open-source a couple of libraries. We contribute back to open source, right? We needed a solution back then for that problem, and we couldn't find any. And maybe one day, open source will have, right? JOE: Yeah. I was going to ask if you considered open-sourcing any of your high latency, high throughput solutions. SEIF: Not high latency. You make it sound bad. JOE: [laughs] SEIF: You make it sound bad. It's, like, fast enough, right? I'm not going to compete on milliseconds because, also, I'm competing with ClickHouse. I don't want to compete with ClickHouse. ClickHouse is low latency and large scale, right? But then the cost is, you know, off the charts a bit sometimes. I'm going the other route. Like, you know, it's fast enough. Like, how, you know, if it's under two, three seconds, everybody's happy, right? If the results come within two, three seconds, everybody is happy. If you're going to build a real-time trading system on top of it, I'll strongly advise against that. But if you're building, you know, you're looking at dashboards, you're more in the observability field, yeah, we're good. VICTORIA: Yeah, I'm curious what you found, like, which customer personas that market really resonated with. Like, is there a particular, like, industry type where you're noticing they really want to lower their cost, and they're okay with this just fast enough latency? SEIF: Honestly, with the current recession, everybody is okay with giving up some of the speed to reduce the money because I think it's not linear reduction. It's more exponential reduction at this point, right? You give up a second, and you're saving 30%. You give up two seconds, all of a sudden, you're saving 80%. So, I'd say in the beginning, everybody thought they need everything to be very, very fast. And now they're realizing, you know, with limitations you have around your budget and spending, you're like, okay, I'm okay with the speed. And, again, we're not slow. I'm just saying people realize they don't need everything under a second. They're okay with waiting for two seconds. VICTORIA: That totally resonates with me. And I'm curious if you can add maybe a non-technical or a real-life example of, like, how this impacts the operations of a company or organization, like, if you can give us, like, a business-y example of how this impacts how people work. SEIF: I don't know how, like, how do people work on that? Nothing changed, really. They're still doing the, like...really nothing because...and that aspect is you run a query, and, again, as I said, you're not getting the result in a second. You're just waiting two seconds or three seconds, and it's there. So, nothing really changed. I think people can wait three seconds. And we're still like–when I say this, we're still faster than most others. We're just not as fast as people who are trying to compete on a millisecond level. VICTORIA: Yeah, that's okay. Maybe I'll take it back even, like, a step further, right? Like, our audience is really sometimes just founders who almost have no formal technical training or background. So, when we talk about observability, sometimes people who work in DevOps and operations all understand it and kind of know why it's important [laughs] and what we're talking about. So, maybe you could, like, go back to -- SEIF: Oh, if you're asking about new types of people who've been using it -- VICTORIA: Yeah. Like, if you're going to explain to, like, a non-technical founder, like, why your product is important, or, like, how people in their organization might use it, what would you say? SEIF: Oh, okay, if you put it like that. It's more of if you have data, timestamp data, and you want to run analytics on top of it, so that could be transactions, that could be web vitals, rather than count every time somebody visits, you have a timestamp. So, you can count, like, how many visitors visited the website and what, you know, all these kinds of things. That's where you want to use something like Axiom. That's outside the DevOps space, of course. And in DevOps space, there's so many other things you use Axiom for, but that's outside the DevOps space. And we actually...we implemented as zero-config integration with Vercel that kind of went viral. And we were, for a while, the number one enterprise for self-integration because so many people were using it. So, Vercel users are usually not necessarily writing the most complex backends, but a lot of things are happening on the front-end side of things. And we would be giving them dashboards, automated dashboards about, you know, latencies, and how long a request took, and how long the response took, and the content type, and the status codes, et cetera, et cetera. And there's a huge user base around that. VICTORIA: I like that. And it's something, for me, you know, as a managing director of our platform engineering team, I want to talk more to founders about. It's great that you put this product and this app out into the world. But how do you know that people are actually using it? How do you know that people, like, maybe, are they all quitting after the first day and not coming back to your app? Or maybe, like, the page isn't loading or, like, it's not working as they expected it to. And, like, if you don't have anything observing what users are doing in your app, then it's going to be hard to show that you're getting any traction and know where you need to go in and make corrections and adjust. SEIF: We have two ways of doing this. Right now, internally, we use our own tools to see, like, who is sending us data. We have a deployment that's monitoring production deployment. And we're just, you know, seeing how people are using it, how much data they're sending every day, who stopped sending data, who spiked in sending data sets, et cetera. But we're using Mixpanel, and Dominic, our Head of Product, implemented a couple of key metrics to that for that specifically. So, we know, like, what's the average time until somebody starts going from building its own queries with the builder to writing APL, or how long it takes them from, you know, running two queries to five queries. And, you know, we just start measuring these things now. And it's been going...we've been growing healthy around that. So, we tend to measure user interaction, but also, we tend to measure how much data is being sent. Because let's keep in mind, usually, people go in and check for things if there's a problem. So, if there's no problem, the user won't interact with us much unless there's a notification that kicks off. We also just check, like, how much data is being sent to us the whole time. VICTORIA: That makes sense. Like, you can't just rely on, like, well, if it was broken, they would write a [chuckles], like, a question or something. So, how do you get those metrics and that data around their interactions? So, that's really interesting. So, I wonder if we can go back and talk about, you know, we already mentioned a little bit about, like, the early days of Axiom and how you got started. Was there anything that you found in the early discovery process that was surprising and made you pivot strategy? SEIF: A couple of things. Basically, people don't really care about the tech as much as they care [inaudible 12:51] and the packaging, so that's something that we had to learn. And number two, continuous feedback. Continuous feedback changed the way we worked completely, right? And, you know, after that, we had a Slack channel, then we opened a Discord channel. And, like, this continuous feedback coming in just helps with iterating, helps us with prioritizing, et cetera. And that changed the way we actually developed product. VICTORIA: You use Slack and Discord? SEIF: No. No Slack anymore. We had a community Slack. We had a community [inaudible 13:19] Slack. Now, there's no community Slack. We only have a community Discord. And the community Slack is...sorry, internally, we use Slack, but there's a community Discord for the community. JOE: But how do you keep that staffed? Is it, like, everybody is in the Discord during working hours? Is it somebody's job to watch out for community questions? SEIF: I think everybody gets involved now just...and you can see it. If you go on our Discord, you will just see it. Just everyone just gets involved. I think just people are passionate about what they're doing. At least most people are involved on Discord, right? Because there's, like, Discord the help sections, and people are just asking questions and other people answering. And now, we reached a point where people in the community start answering the questions for other people in the community. So, that's how we see it's starting to become a healthy community, et cetera. But that is one of my favorite things: when I see somebody from the community answering somebody else, that's a highlight for me. Actually, we hired somebody from that community because they were so active. JOE: Yeah, I think one of the biggest signs that a product is healthy is when there's a healthy ecosystem building up around it. SEIF: Yeah, and Discord reminds me of the old days of open sources like IRC, just with memes now. But because all of us come from the old IRC days, being on Discord and chatting around, et cetera, et cetera, just gives us this momentum back, gave us this momentum back, whereas Slack always felt a bit too businessy to me. JOE: Slack is like IRC with emoji. Discord is IRC with memes. SEIF: I would say Slack reminds me somehow of MSN Messenger, right? JOE: I feel like there's a huge slam on MSN Messenger here. SEIF: [laughs] What do you guys use internally, Slack or? I think you're using Slack, right? Or Teams. Don't tell me you're using Teams. JOE: No, we're using Slack. SEIF: Okay, good, because I shit talk. Like, there is this, I'll sh*t talk here–when I start talking about Teams, so...I remember that one thing Google did once, and that failed miserably. JOE: Google still has, like, seven active chat products. SEIF: Like, I think every department or every, like, group of engineers just uses one of them internally. I'm not sure. Never got to that point. But hey, who am I to judge? VICTORIA: I just feel like I end up using all of them, and then I'm just rotating between different tabs all day long. You maybe talked me into using Discord. I feel like I've been resisting it, but you got me with the memes. SEIF: Yeah, it's definitely worth it. It's more entertaining. More noise, but more entertaining. You feel it's alive, whereas Slack is...also because there's no, like, history is forever. So, you always go back, and you're like, oh my God, what the hell is this? VICTORIA: Yeah, I have, like, all of them. I'll do anything. SEIF: They should be using Axiom in the background. Just send data to Axiom; we can keep your chat history. VICTORIA: Yeah, maybe. I'm so curious because, you know, you mentioned something about how you realized that it didn't matter really how cool the tech was if the product packaging wasn't also appealing to people. Because you seem really excited about what you've built. So, I'm curious, so just tell us a little bit more about how you went about trying to, like, promote this thing you built. Or was, like, the continuous feedback really early on, or how did that all kind of come together? SEIF: The continuous feedback helped us with performance, but actually getting people to sign up and pay money it started early on. But with Vercel, it kind of skyrocketed, right? And that's mostly because we went with the whole zero-config approach where it's just literally two clicks. And all of a sudden, Vercel is sending your data to Axiom, and that's it. We will create [inaudible 16:33]. And we worked very closely with Vercel to do this, to make this happen, which was awesome. Like, yeah, hats off to them. They were fantastic. And just two clicks, three clicks away, and all of a sudden, we created Axiom organization for you, the data set for you. And then we're sending it...and the data from Vercel is being forwarded to it. I think that packaging was so simple that it made people try it out quickly. And then, the experience of actually using Axiom was sticky, so they continued using it. And then the price was so low because we give 500 gigs for free, right? You send us 500 gigs a month of logs for free, and we don't care. And you can start off here with one terabyte for 25 bucks. So, people just start signing up. Now, before that, it was five terabytes a month for $99, and then we changed the plan. But yeah, it was cheap enough, so people just start sending us more and more and more data eventually. They weren't thinking...we changed the way people start thinking of “what am I going to send to Axiom” or “what am I going to send to my logs provider or log storage?” To how much more can I send? And I think that's what we wanted to reach. We wanted people to think, how much more can I send? JOE: You mentioned latency and cost. I'm curious about...the other big challenge we've seen with observability platforms, including logs, is cardinality of labels. Was there anything you had to sacrifice upfront in terms of cardinality to manage either cost or volume? SEIF: No, not really. Because the way we designed it was that we should be able to deal with high cardinality from scratch, right? I mean, there's open-source ways of doing, like, if you look at how, like, a column store, if you look at a column store and every dimension is its own column, it's just that becomes, like, you can limit on the amount of columns you're creating, but you should never limit on the amount of different values in a column could be. So, if you're having something like stat tags, right? Let's say hosting, like, hostname should be a column, but then the different hostnames you have, we never limit that. So, the cardinality on a value is something that is unlimited for us, and we don't really see it in cost. It doesn't really hit us on cost. It reflects a bit on compression if you get into technical details of that because, you know, high cardinality means a lot of different data. So, compression is harder, but it's not repetitive. But then if you look at, you know, oh, I want to send a lot of different types of fields, not values with fields, so you have hostname, and latency, and whatnot, et cetera, et cetera, yeah, that's where limitation starts because then they have...it's like you're going to a wide range of...and a wider dimension. But even that, we, yeah, we can deal with thousands at this point. And we realize, like, most people will not need more than three or four. It's like a Postgres table. You don't need more than 3,000 to 4000 columns; else, you know, you're doing a lot. JOE: I think it's actually pretty compelling in terms of cost, though. Like, that's one of the things we've had to be most careful about in terms of containing cost for metrics and logs is, a lot of providers will...they'll either charge you based on the number of unique metric combinations or the performance suffers greatly. Like, we've used a lot of Prometheus-based solutions. And so, when we're working with developers, even though they don't need more than, you know, a few dozen metric combinations most of the time, it's hard for people to think of what they need upfront. It's much easier after you deploy it to be able to query your data and slice it retroactively based on what you're seeing. SEIF: That's the detail. When you say we're using Prometheus, a lot of the metrics tools out there are using, just like Prometheus, are using the Gorilla data structure. And the real data structure was never designed to deal with high cardinality labels. So, basically, to put it in a simple way, every combination of tags you send for metrics is its own file on disk. That's, like, the very simple way of explaining this. And then, when you're trying to search through everything, right? And you have a lot of these combinations. I actually have to get all these files from this conversion back together, you know, and then they're chunked, et cetera. So, it's a problem. Generally, how metrics are doing it...most metrics products are using it, even VictoriaMetrics, et cetera. What they're doing is they're using either the Prometheus TSDB data structure, which is based on Gorilla. Influx was doing the same thing. They pivoted to using more and more like the ones we use, and Honeycomb uses, right? So, we might not be as fast on metrics side as these highly optimized. But then when it comes to high [inaudible 20:49], once we start dealing with high cardinality, we will be faster than those solutions. And that's on a very technical level. JOE: That's pretty cool. I realize we're getting pretty technical here. Maybe it's worth defining cardinality for the audience. SEIF: Defining cardinality to the...I mean, we just did that, right? JOE: What do you think, Victoria? Do you know what cardinality is now? [laughs] VICTORIA: All right. Now I'm like, do I know? I was like, I think I know what it means. Cardinality is, like, let's say you have a piece of data like an event or a transaction. SEIF: It's like the distinct count on a property that gives you the cardinality of a property. VICTORIA: Right. It's like how many pieces of information you have about that one event, basically, yeah. JOE: But with some traditional metrics stores, it's easy to make mistakes. For example, you could have unbounded cardinality by including response time as one of the labels -- SEIF: Tags. JOE: And then it's just going to -- SEIF: Oh, no, no. Let me give you a better one. I put in timestamp at some point in my life. JOE: Yeah, I feel like everybody has done that one. [laughter] SEIF: I've put a system timestamp at some point in my life. There was the actual timestamp, and there was a system timestamp that I would put because I wanted to know when the...because I couldn't control the timestamp, and the only timestamp I had was a system timestamp. I would always add the actual timestamp of when that event actually happened into a metric, and yeah, that did not scale. MID-ROLL AD: Are you an entrepreneur or start-up founder looking to gain confidence in the way forward for your idea? At thoughtbot, we know you're tight on time and investment, which is why we've created targeted 1-hour remote workshops to help you develop a concrete plan for your product's next steps. Over four interactive sessions, we work with you on research, product design sprint, critical path, and presentation prep so that you and your team are better equipped with the skills and knowledge for success. Find out how we can help you move the needle at tbot.io/entrepreneurs. VICTORIA: Yeah. I wonder if you could maybe share, like, a story about when it's gone wrong, and you've suddenly charged a lot of money [laughs] just to get information about what's happening in the system. Any, like, personal experiences with observability that kind of informed what you did with Axiom? SEIF: Oof, I have a very bad one, like, a very, very bad one. I used to work for a company. We had to deploy Elasticsearch on Windows Servers, and it was US-East-1. So, just a combination of Elasticsearch back in 2013, 2014 together with Azure and Windows Server was not a good idea. So, you see where this is going, right? JOE: I see where it's going. SEIF: Eventually, we had, like, we get all these problems because we used Elasticsearch and Kibana as our, you know, observability platform to measure everything around the product we were building. And funny enough, it cost us more than actually maintaining the infrastructure of the product. But not just that, it also kept me up longer because most of the downtimes I would get were not because of the product going down. It's because my Elasticsearch cluster started going down, and there's reasons for that. Because back then, Microsoft Azure thought that it's okay for any VM to lose connection with the rest of the VMs for 30 seconds per day. And then, all of a sudden, you have Elasticsearch with a split-brain problem. And there was a phase where I started getting alerted so much that back then, my partner threatened to leave me. So I bought a...what I think was a shock bracelet or a shock collar via Bluetooth, and I connected it to phone for any notification. And I bought that off Alibaba, by the way. And I would charge it at night, put it on my wrist, and go to sleep. And then, when alert happens, it will fully discharge the battery on me every time. JOE: Okay, I have to admit, I did not see where that was going. SEIF: Yeah, did that for a while; definitely did not save my relationship either. But eventually, that was the point where, you know, we started looking into other observability tools like Datadog, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And that's where the actual journey began, where we moved away from Elasticsearch and Kibana to look for something, okay, that we don't have to maintain ourselves and we can use, et cetera. So, it's not about the costs as much; it was just pain. VICTORIA: Yeah, pain is a real pain point, actual physical [chuckles] and emotional pain point [laughter]. What, like, motivates you to keep going with Axiom and to keep, like, the wind in your sails to keep working on it? SEIF: There's a couple of things. I love working with my team. So, honestly, I just wake up, and I compliment my team. I just love working with them. They're a lot of fun to work with. And they challenge me, and I challenge them back. And I upset them a lot. And they can't upset me, but I upset them. But I love working with them, and I love working with that team. And the other thing is getting, like, having this constant feedback from customers just makes you want to do more and, you know, close sales, et cetera. It's interesting, like, how I'm a very technical person, and I'm more interested in sales because sales means your product works, the product, the technical parts, et cetera. Because if technically it's not working, you can't build a product on top of it. And if you're not selling it, then what's the point? You only sell when the product is good, more or less, unless you're Oracle. VICTORIA: I had someone ask me about Oracle recently, actually. They're like, "Are you considering going back to it?" And I'm maybe a little allergic to it from having a federal consulting background [laughs]. But maybe they'll come back around. I don't know. We'll see. SEIF: Did you sell your soul back then? VICTORIA: You know, I feel like I just grew up in a place where that's what everyone did was all. SEIF: It was Oracle, IBM, or HP back in the day. VICTORIA: Yeah. Well, basically, when you're working on applications that were built in, like, the '80s, Oracle was, like, this hot, new database technology [laughs] that they just got five years ago. So, that's just, yeah, interesting. SEIF: Although, from a database perspective, they did a lot of the innovations. A lot of first innovations could have come from Oracle. From a technical perspective, they're ridiculous. I'm not sure from a product perspective how good they are. But I know their sales team is so big, so huge. They don't care about the product anymore. They can still sell. VICTORIA: I think, you know, everything in tech is cyclical. So, you know, if they have the right strategy and they're making some interesting changes over there, there's always a chance [laughs]. Certain use cases, I mean, I think that's the interesting point about working in technology is that you know, every company is a tech company. And so, there's just a lot of different types of people, personas, and use cases for different types of products. So, I wonder, you know, you kind of mentioned earlier that, like, everyone is interested in Axiom. But, you know, I don't know, are you narrowing the market? Or, like, how are you trying to kind of focus your messaging and your sales for Axiom? SEIF: I'm trying to focus on developers. So, we're really trying to focus on developers because the experience around observability is crap. It's stupid expensive. Sorry for being straightforward, right? And that's what we're trying to change. And we're targeting developers mainly. We want developers to like us. And we'll find all these different types of developers who are using it, and that's the interesting thing. And because of them, we start adding more and more features, like, you know, we added tracing, and now that enables, like, billions of events pushed through for, you know, again, for almost no money, again, $25 a month for a terabyte of data. And we're doing this with metrics next. And that's just to address the developers who have been giving us feedback and the market demand. I will sum it up, again, like, the experience is crap, and it's stupid expensive. I think that's the [inaudible 28:07] of observability is just that's how I would sum it up. VICTORIA: If you could go back in time and talk to yourself when you were still a developer, now that you're CTO, what advice would you give yourself? JOE: Besides avoiding shock collars. VICTORIA: [laughs] Yes. SEIF: Get people's feedback quickly so you know you're on the right track. I think that's very, very, very, very important. Don't just work in the dark, or don't go too long into stealth mode because, eventually, people catch up. Also, ship when you're 80% ready because 100% is too late. I think it's the same thing here. JOE: Ship often and early. SEIF: Yeah, even if it's not fully ready, it's still feedback. VICTORIA: Ship often and early and talk to people [laughs]. Just, do you feel like, as a developer, did you have the skills you needed to be able to get the most out of those feedback and out of those conversations you were having with people around your product? SEIF: I still don't think I'm good enough. You're just constantly learning, right? I just accepted I'm part of a team, and I have my contributions. But as an individual, I still don't think I know enough. I think there's more I need to learn at this point. VICTORIA: I wonder, what questions do you have for me or Joe? SEIF: How did you start your podcast, and why the name? VICTORIA: Oh, man, I hope I can answer. So, the podcast was started...I think it's, like, we're actually about to be at our 500th Episode. So, I've only been a host for the last year. Maybe Joe even knows more than I do. But what I recall is that one person at thoughtbot thought it would be a great idea to start a podcast, and then they did it. And it seems like the whole company is obsessed with robots. I'm not really sure where that came from. There used to be a tiny robot in the office, is what I remember. And people started using that as, like, the mascot. And then, yeah, that's it, that's the whole thing. SEIF: Was the robot doing anything useful or just being cute? JOE: It was just cute, and it's hard to make a robot cute. SEIF: Was it a real robot, or was it like a -- JOE: No, there was, at one point, a toy robot. The name...I actually forget the origin–origin of the name, but the name Giant Robots comes from our blog. So, we named the podcast the same as the blog: Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots. SEIF: Yes, it's called transformers. VICTORIA: Yeah, I like it. It's, I mean, now I feel like -- SEIF: [laughs] VICTORIA: We got to get more, like, robot dogs involved [laughs] in the podcast. SEIF: Like, I wanted to add one thing when we talked about, you know, what gets me going. And I want to mention that I have a six-month-old son now. He definitely adds a lot of motivation for me to wake up in the morning and work. But he also makes me wake up regardless if I want to or not. VICTORIA: Yeah, you said you had invented an alarm clock that never turns off. Never snoozes [laughs]. SEIF: Yes, absolutely. VICTORIA: I have the same thing, but it's my dog. But he does snooze, actually. He'll just, like, get tired and go back to sleep [laughs]. SEIF: Oh, I have a question. Do dogs have a Tamagotchi phase? Because, like, my son, the first three months was like a Tamagotchi. It was easy to read him. VICTORIA: Oh yeah, uh-huh. SEIF: Noisy but easy. VICTORIA: Yes, yes. SEIF: Now, it's just like, yeah, I don't know, like, the last month he has opinions at six months. I think it's because I raised him in Europe. I should take him back to the Middle East [laughs]. No opinions. VICTORIA: No, dogs totally have, like, a communication style, you know, I pretty much know what he, I mean, I can read his mind, obviously [laughs]. SEIF: Sure, but that's when they grow a bit. But what when they were very...when the dog was very young? VICTORIA: Yeah, they, I mean, they also learn, like, your stuff, too. So, they, like, learn how to get you to do stuff or, like, I know she'll feed me if I'm sitting here [laughs]. SEIF: And how much is one dog year, seven years? VICTORIA: Seven years. SEIF: Seven years? VICTORIA: Yeah, seven years? SEIF: Yeah. So, basically, in one year, like, three months, he's already...in one month, he's, you know, seven months old. He's like, yeah. VICTORIA: Yeah. In a year, they're, like, teenagers. And then, in two years, they're, like, full adults. SEIF: Yeah. So, the first month is basically going through the first six months of a human being. So yeah, you pass...the first two days or three days are the Tamagotchi phase that I'm talking about. VICTORIA: [chuckles] I read this book, and it was, like, to understand dogs, it's like, they're just like humans that are trying to, like, maximize the number of positive experiences that they have. So, like, if you think about that framing around all your interactions about, like, maybe you're trying to get your son to do something, you can be like, okay, how do I, like, I don't know, train him that good things happen when he does the things I want him to do? [laughs] That's kind of maybe manipulative but effective. So, you're not learning baby sign language? You're just, like, going off facial expressions? SEIF: I started. I know how Mama looks like. I know how Dada looks like. I know how more looks like, slowly. And he already does this thing that I know that when he's uncomfortable, he starts opening and closing his hands. And when he's completely uncomfortable and basically that he needs to go sleep, he starts pulling his own hair. VICTORIA: [laughs] I do the same thing [laughs]. SEIF: You pull your own hair when you go to sleep? I don't have that. I don't have hair. VICTORIA: I think I do start, like, touching my head though, yeah [inaudible 33:04]. SEIF: Azure took the last bit of hair I had! Went away with Azure, Elasticsearch, and the shock collar. VICTORIA: [laughs] SEIF: I have none of them left. Absolutely nothing. I should sue Elasticsearch for this shit. VICTORIA: [laughs] Let me know how that goes. Maybe there's more people who could join your lawsuit, you know, with a class action. SEIF: [laughs] Yeah. Well, one thing I wanted to also just highlight is, right now, one of the things that also makes the company move forward is we realized that in a single domain, we proved ourselves very valuable to specific companies, right? So, that was a big, big thing, milestone for us. And now we're trying to move into a handful of domains and see which one of those work out the best for us. Does that make sense? VICTORIA: Yeah. And I'm curious: what are the biggest challenges or hurdles that you associate with that? SEIF: At this point, you don't want just feedback. You want constructive criticism. Like, you want to work with people who will criticize the applic...and you iterate with them based on this criticism, right? They're just not happy about you and trying to create design partners. So, for us, it was very important to have these small design partners who can work with us to actually prove ourselves as valuable in a single domain. Right now, we need to find a way to scale this across several domains. And how do you do that without sacrificing? Like, how do you open into other domains without sacrificing the original domain you came from? So, there's a lot of things [inaudible 34:28]. And we are in the middle of this. Honestly, I Forrest Gumped my way through half of this, right? Like, I didn't know what I was doing. I had ideas. I think it's more of luck at this point. And I had luck. No, we did work. We did work a lot. We did sleepless nights and everything. But I think, in the last three years, we became more mature and started thinking more about product. And as I said, like, our CEO, Neil, and Dominic, our head of product, are putting everything behind being a product-led organization, not just a tech-led organization. VICTORIA: That's super interesting. I love to hear that that's the way you're thinking about it. JOE: I was just curious what other domains you're looking at pushing into if you can say. SEIF: So, we are going to start moving into ETL a bit more. We're trying to see how we can fit in specific ML scenarios. I can't say more about the other, though. JOE: Do you think you'll take the same approaches in terms of value proposition, like, low cost, good enough latency? SEIF: Yes, that's definitely one thing. But there's also...so, this is the values we're bringing to the customer. But also, now, our internal values are different. Now it's more of move with urgency and high velocity, as we said before, right? Think big, work small. The values in terms of values we're going to take to the customers it's the same ones. And maybe we'll add some more, but it's still going to be low-cost and large-scale. And, internally, we're just becoming more, excuse my French, agile. I hate that word so much. Should be good with Scrum. VICTORIA: It's painful, but everyone knows what you're talking about [laughs], you know, like -- SEIF: See, I have opinions here about Scrum. I think Scrum should be only used in terms of iceScrum [inaudible 36:04], or something like that. VICTORIA: Oh no [laughter]. Well, it's a Rugby term, right? Like, that's where it should probably stay. SEIF: I did not know it's a rugby term. VICTORIA: Yeah, so it should stay there, but -- SEIF: Yes [laughs]. VICTORIA: Yeah, I think it's interesting. Yeah, I like the being flexible. I like the just, like, continuous feedback and how you all have set up to, like, talk with your customers. Because you mentioned earlier that, like, you might open source some of your projects. And I'm just curious, like, what goes into that decision for you when you're going to do that? Like, what makes you think this project would be good for open source or when you think, actually, we need to, like, keep it? SEIF: So, we open source libraries, right? We actually do that already. And some other big organizations use our libraries; even our competitors use our libraries, that we do. The whole product itself or at least a big part of the product, like database, I'm not sure we're going to open source that, at least not anytime soon. And if we open source, it's going to be at a point where the value-add it brings is nothing compared to how well our product is, right? So, if we can replace whatever's at the back with...the storage engine we have in the back with something else and the product doesn't get affected, that's when we open source it. VICTORIA: That's interesting. That makes sense to me. But yeah, thank you for clarifying that. I just wanted to make sure to circle back. Since you have this big history in open source, yeah, I'm curious if you see... SEIF: Burning me out? VICTORIA: Burning you out, yeah [laughter]. Oh, that's a good question. Yeah, like, because, you know, we're about to be in October here. Do you have any advice or strategies as a maintainer for not getting burned out during the next couple of weeks besides, like, hide in a cave and without internet access [laughs]? SEIF: Stay away from Reddit and Hacker News. That's my goal for October now because I'm always afraid of getting too attached to an idea, or too motivated, or excited by an idea that I drift away from what I am actually supposed to be doing. VICTORIA: Last question is, is there anything else you would like to promote? SEIF: Yeah, check out our website; I think it's at axiom.co. Check it out. Sign up. And comment on Discord and talk to me. I don't bite, sometimes grumpy, but that's just because of lack of sleep in the morning. But, you know, around midday, I'm good. And if you're ever in Berlin and you want to hang out, I'm more than willing to hang out. VICTORIA: Whoo, that's awesome. Yeah, Berlin is great. I was there a couple of years ago but no plans to go back anytime soon, but maybe I'll keep that in mind. You can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you could find me on Twitter @victori_ousg. And this podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks for listening. See you next time. Did you know thoughtbot has a referral program? If you introduce us to someone looking for a design or development partner, we will compensate you if they decide to work with us. More info on our website at tbot.io/referral. Or you can email us at referrals@thoughtbot.com with any questions. Special Guests: Joe Ferris and Seif Lotfy.

Akash Gupta and Joe Lynch discuss thriving in an omnichannel world. Akash is the CEO of GreyOrange, a hardware-agnostic fulfillment orchestration platform and proprietary and certified third-party hardware. About Akash Gupta As Chief Executive Officer, Akash Gupta leads GreyOrange's strategic direction globally and is central to the company's culture of innovation. His primary focus is driving research and development and attracting the brightest talent globally as the company uniquely blends Artificial Intelligence, software design, robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and data science to transform fulfillment for companies worldwide. While still a student at Birla Institute of Tech and Science, a top-5 college in India, Akash teamed up with fellow student Samay Kohli to begin winning global robotic competitions and the success led them to found GreyOrange. He proceeded to build an R&D engine able to unite multiple software and robotic technologies to transform the fulfillment operations of companies around the world. Akash has led mentoring sessions and workshops at more than 25 educational institutions globally, including Stanford University, Louisiana University, MIT, IITs, and IIIT. Akash was named to MIT Technology Review's global list of “35 Innovators under 35,” has designed and implemented an active underwater Sonar Stabilization System at the University of Louisiana and served on the Chief Organizing Committee of RoboCup 2011-2012. About GreyOrange Re-defining fulfillment, GreyOrange Inc. provides a state-of-the-art hardware agnostic fulfillment orchestration platform, GreyMatter™, that responds to customer orders in real time as well as proprietary and certified third-party hardware. The company's solutions offer a competitive advantage by increasing productivity, empowering growth and scale, mitigating labor challenges, and reducing risk and time to market while also creating better experiences for customers and employees. Founded in 2012, GreyOrange is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices and partners across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Key Takeaways: Thriving in an Omnichannel World with Akash Gupta  GreyOrange is a provider of hardware-agnostic fulfillment orchestration platform and proprietary and certified third-party hardware. The company's solutions offer a competitive advantage by increasing productivity, empowering growth, and scale, mitigating labor challenges, and reducing risk and time to market. GreyOrange was founded on the fundamental reality that modern fulfillment demands cannot be met with technology built for a previous era. GreyOrange's solutions help businesses realize greater speed-to-fulfill, ability-to-fulfill, and margin-to-fulfill. GreyOrange's Warehouse Automation Evaluation (WAE) is the first step to helping businesses make the move to modern fulfillment. The GreyOrange WAE process follows 5 well-defined work steps: understand current operations, evaluate practices and identify opportunities, facilitate brainstorming session, analyze opportunities, and develop recommendations. GreyOrange is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices and partners across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Learn More Thriving in an Omnichannel World  Akash on LinkedIn GreyOrange on LinkedIn GreyOrange website Episode Sponsor: Wreaths Across America Wreaths Across America Radio - Wreaths Across America Episode Sponsor: Greenscreens.ai Greenscreens.ai's dynamic pricing infrastructure built to grow and protect margins. The Greenscreens.ai solution combines aggregated market data and customer data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver short-term predictive freight market pricing specific to a company's individual buy and sell behavior. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube

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TapirCast'in "IEEE Spectrum" serisinin IEEE R8 Local Language Ambassador sponsorluğunda gerçekleştirilen bu bölümünde, Sedanur Karabayram ve Ahmet Mücahit Yılmaz ile birlikte IEEE Spectrum Temmuz 2023 sayısını ele alıyoruz. Bölümümüze, droneların savaş teknolojileri arasındaki yeri ve önemini Ukrayna-Rusya savaşı örneği üzerinden ele alan haberi tartışarak başlıyoruz. Sonrasında, futbol oyununda insansı robotların bulunduğu bir takımın insanlardan oluşan bir takımı yenebileceği düşüncesiyle robotlar ile düzenlenen RoboCup'ı ele alıyoruz. Ardından, Hands On bölümünde yer alan meteorların yerinin tespitini sağlayabilecek bir gerçeklemeyi değerlendiriyoruz. Daha sonra, bu ayki sayıda yer alan Yapay Zeka tarafından yazılan kodların güvenilirliğinin tartışıldığı bölümü ve büyük dil modellerinin getirdiği maliyeti tartışıyoruz. Son olarak, Güneş enerjisini kullanarak Hidrojen üreten ve bu Hidrojen ile Kilowatt düzeyinde enerji açığa çıkarabilen teknolojinin detaylarını ele alıp, temiz enerji kavramı üzerine tartışarak bölümümüzü sonlandırıyoruz. Keyifli dinlemeler!

Ireland's Robot Soccer team, RoboÉireann from Maynooth University, are Challenge Shield winners in the RoboCup 2023 Standard Platform League, an international robotics competition held in Bordeaux, France. Scoring 67-2 across nine matches, RoboÉireann overcame teams from Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, USA, Australia, and Brazil to secure victory. A 35 second clip of RoboCup Semi-Final RoboÉireann V Dutch Nao can be seen below. RoboCup is an international research initiative to advance intelligent autonomous robotics into the middle of the 21st century. Robot soccer is played by teams of five or seven robots each comprising a goalie and outfield players. There are human referees and just like real soccer there is a kick-off, goals, fouls, a sin-bin and eventual send-offs for persistent fouls, and penalty kicks. The winning team comprises staff and students from the Departments of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Maynooth University and competes in an innovative game where all competitors use identical humanoid robot hardware but develop software so that the robots play soccer autonomously. RoboÉireann have competed in European and International RoboCup events since 2009. To achieve this level of autonomy, teams must develop software, create advanced machine learning and AI and efficient real-time systems, so that the robots can understand their surroundings, make decisions, and collaborate in dynamic environments without human intervention or remote control. Students gain industry-ready skills in robotics, AI, software, and teamwork with applications in autonomous robotics, assistive technologies for independent living, manufacturing, agriculture, and emergency/disaster area operations, amongst others. Commenting on the team's success, Dr Rudi Villing, team coach and lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering, said: "RoboCup is an invaluable practical environment for students to learn about the challenges of creating intelligent humanoid robots, to research and develop solutions, and to develop industrially relevant skills. The competitive element is a key motivator for them and is unlike anything else. Our great result in this competition builds on our Open Challenge win in the RoboCup 2011 world championship and third place finish in the RoboCup German Open Replacement Event 2022." Team RoboÉireann are Aidan Colgan, Shauna Recto, James Petri, Heather Bruen, Andy Lee Mitchell, Dr Ralf Bierig and Dr Rudi Villing. See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

Annyira jó képet készített iPhone-nal, hogy kizárták a fotóversenyből PCWorld     2023-07-14 12:32:16     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone A fotó jellegzetes stílusa felkeltette a csalás gyanúját, a készítője szerint viszont szó sincs erről. Háromszor hosszabb is lehetne egy nap a Földön 24.hu     2023-07-14 12:02:52     Tudomány A Nap egymilliárd évvel ezelőtt megmentette a Földet, az emberek viszont ismét gondot okoznak. Sötétbe borul a Microsoft Paint IT Business     2023-07-14 06:07:10     Infotech Microsoft Windows A kiszivárgott értesülések szerint a Microsoft végre elkezdte tesztelni mindannyiunk kedvenc grafikai programjának sötét kezelőfelületű változatát. A hagyományosan a Windows operációs rendszer részét képező Paint fekete felületének bevezetését már évek óta kérték a felhasználók. A két esztendővel ezelőtt megszellőztetett fejlesztés most ért el a Mi Az Asus végre beismerte, hogy mennyire veszélyes a ROG Ally használata! theGeek     2023-07-14 07:48:27     Infotech Asus Tech Hírek – Ez már hivatalos: az Asus elismerte, hogy a ROG Ally időnként barbecue-t játszhat az SD-kártyánkkal! Az Asus most megerősítette, hogy a ROG Ally kézi készüléknek gondja van a hőleadással. Ha nincs szerencséd, ez a probléma egy törött microSD-kártyához vezethet. A problémáról már több érintett felhasználó is beszámolt az interneten. Ám WHO: Tényleg rákkeltő lehet a diétás kólák édesítőszere, de mértéktartással biztonságos a fogyasztása Telex     2023-07-14 12:02:31     Tudomány Fogyasztás WHO Diéta Az Egészségügyi Világszervezet rákkutató részlege pénteken a lehetséges rákkeltő anyagok közé sorolta az aszpartámot. Az ITER még el sem készült, de a vákuumkamrát máris javítani kell Rakéta     2023-07-14 07:42:03     Infotech Kiemelték a leendő kísérleti fúziós reaktor vákuumkamrájának hatos szektorát, hogy megoldják a méretbeli hibákkal és a hőpajzs vezetékeivel kapcsolatos problémákat. Júniusban nagyot buktak a tajvani gyártók – és minden partnerük Bitport     2023-07-14 14:38:00     Infotech A Nikkei szerint a 19 legnagyobb tajvani IT-vállalat összességében értékesítései ötödét vesztette el egy év alatt. Fedezd fel Puszant, ahol egy új, digitális város épül! Player     2023-07-14 11:21:07     Infotech Dél-Korea Egyesült Arab Emírségek Dubaj Amennyiben Dél-Koreában keresünk olyan helyet, mint Európában a Riviéra vagy az arab államokban Dubai, leginkább Puszan (Busan) lehet az úticélunk. A városban egyaránt megtalálhatók a homokos tengerpartok, a sziklákkal övezett, panorámát nyújtó hegyoldalak, ahol fel-fel bukkanhatnak ősi templomok, ugyanakkor egy folyamatosan bővülő, digitális város Az Európa-bajnokságon sikeres magyar diákok a világversenyen is bizonyítottak Márkamonitor     2023-07-14 07:06:09     Infotech Japán Robot Az 1997-ben Japánból indult RoboCup kutatási projekt keretében zajló RoboCup Junior napjainkban, kategóriáját tekintve a világ legnagyobb robotikaversenye, amelynek szervezői minden korosztályban a legmagasabb technológiai szint alkalmazásával ösztönzik a tudomány fejlődését.   Idén, az előző évekhez képest jelentősen nőtt a magas technológiai szin Jön egy új gomb a Gmailbe, két héten belül mindenki megkapja hvg.hu     2023-07-14 08:03:00     Infotech Gmail Hamarosan minden felhasználónál megjelenik majd a levélíró felületen egy ikon, mellyel a jelenleginél jóval egyszerűbb lesz majd találkozókat, megbeszéléseket leegyeztetni. Mi fán terem a prompt engineer? IT Business     2023-07-14 12:37:48     Cégvilág Mesterséges intelligencia Egyelőre nehéz lenne pontos választ adni arra, hogy mekkora változást hoz a mesterséges intelligencia, de az biztos, hogy számtalan vállalati folyamatra lesz komoly hatással. Ennek megfelelően a szoftverfejlesztés folyamata és a szoftverfejlesztő cégek sem vonhatják ki magukat hatása alól – mondja Zséger Ádám, az Attrecto ügyvezető igazgatója. ■ Sz Ha valamire nem volt szüksége a világnak, az a tűzokádó robotkutya PCWorld     2023-07-14 06:01:59     Infotech Robot A Thermonator névre hallgató robotkutyát lángszóróval szerelte fel az őt fejlesztő cég. Robbanás lett a vége a japán űrügynökség tesztjének Portfolio     2023-07-14 08:04:00     Gazdaság Japán Világűr Teszteléskor felrobbant a japán űrügynökség Epsilon S kis rakétahajtóműve pénteken - közölte a japán űrkutatási hivatal (JAXA).

Annyira jó képet készített iPhone-nal, hogy kizárták a fotóversenyből PCWorld     2023-07-14 12:32:16     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone A fotó jellegzetes stílusa felkeltette a csalás gyanúját, a készítője szerint viszont szó sincs erről. Háromszor hosszabb is lehetne egy nap a Földön 24.hu     2023-07-14 12:02:52     Tudomány A Nap egymilliárd évvel ezelőtt megmentette a Földet, az emberek viszont ismét gondot okoznak. Sötétbe borul a Microsoft Paint IT Business     2023-07-14 06:07:10     Infotech Microsoft Windows A kiszivárgott értesülések szerint a Microsoft végre elkezdte tesztelni mindannyiunk kedvenc grafikai programjának sötét kezelőfelületű változatát. A hagyományosan a Windows operációs rendszer részét képező Paint fekete felületének bevezetését már évek óta kérték a felhasználók. A két esztendővel ezelőtt megszellőztetett fejlesztés most ért el a Mi Az Asus végre beismerte, hogy mennyire veszélyes a ROG Ally használata! theGeek     2023-07-14 07:48:27     Infotech Asus Tech Hírek – Ez már hivatalos: az Asus elismerte, hogy a ROG Ally időnként barbecue-t játszhat az SD-kártyánkkal! Az Asus most megerősítette, hogy a ROG Ally kézi készüléknek gondja van a hőleadással. Ha nincs szerencséd, ez a probléma egy törött microSD-kártyához vezethet. A problémáról már több érintett felhasználó is beszámolt az interneten. Ám WHO: Tényleg rákkeltő lehet a diétás kólák édesítőszere, de mértéktartással biztonságos a fogyasztása Telex     2023-07-14 12:02:31     Tudomány Fogyasztás WHO Diéta Az Egészségügyi Világszervezet rákkutató részlege pénteken a lehetséges rákkeltő anyagok közé sorolta az aszpartámot. Az ITER még el sem készült, de a vákuumkamrát máris javítani kell Rakéta     2023-07-14 07:42:03     Infotech Kiemelték a leendő kísérleti fúziós reaktor vákuumkamrájának hatos szektorát, hogy megoldják a méretbeli hibákkal és a hőpajzs vezetékeivel kapcsolatos problémákat. Júniusban nagyot buktak a tajvani gyártók – és minden partnerük Bitport     2023-07-14 14:38:00     Infotech A Nikkei szerint a 19 legnagyobb tajvani IT-vállalat összességében értékesítései ötödét vesztette el egy év alatt. Fedezd fel Puszant, ahol egy új, digitális város épül! Player     2023-07-14 11:21:07     Infotech Dél-Korea Egyesült Arab Emírségek Dubaj Amennyiben Dél-Koreában keresünk olyan helyet, mint Európában a Riviéra vagy az arab államokban Dubai, leginkább Puszan (Busan) lehet az úticélunk. A városban egyaránt megtalálhatók a homokos tengerpartok, a sziklákkal övezett, panorámát nyújtó hegyoldalak, ahol fel-fel bukkanhatnak ősi templomok, ugyanakkor egy folyamatosan bővülő, digitális város Az Európa-bajnokságon sikeres magyar diákok a világversenyen is bizonyítottak Márkamonitor     2023-07-14 07:06:09     Infotech Japán Robot Az 1997-ben Japánból indult RoboCup kutatási projekt keretében zajló RoboCup Junior napjainkban, kategóriáját tekintve a világ legnagyobb robotikaversenye, amelynek szervezői minden korosztályban a legmagasabb technológiai szint alkalmazásával ösztönzik a tudomány fejlődését.   Idén, az előző évekhez képest jelentősen nőtt a magas technológiai szin Jön egy új gomb a Gmailbe, két héten belül mindenki megkapja hvg.hu     2023-07-14 08:03:00     Infotech Gmail Hamarosan minden felhasználónál megjelenik majd a levélíró felületen egy ikon, mellyel a jelenleginél jóval egyszerűbb lesz majd találkozókat, megbeszéléseket leegyeztetni. Mi fán terem a prompt engineer? IT Business     2023-07-14 12:37:48     Cégvilág Mesterséges intelligencia Egyelőre nehéz lenne pontos választ adni arra, hogy mekkora változást hoz a mesterséges intelligencia, de az biztos, hogy számtalan vállalati folyamatra lesz komoly hatással. Ennek megfelelően a szoftverfejlesztés folyamata és a szoftverfejlesztő cégek sem vonhatják ki magukat hatása alól – mondja Zséger Ádám, az Attrecto ügyvezető igazgatója. ■ Sz Ha valamire nem volt szüksége a világnak, az a tűzokádó robotkutya PCWorld     2023-07-14 06:01:59     Infotech Robot A Thermonator névre hallgató robotkutyát lángszóróval szerelte fel az őt fejlesztő cég. Robbanás lett a vége a japán űrügynökség tesztjének Portfolio     2023-07-14 08:04:00     Gazdaság Japán Világűr Teszteléskor felrobbant a japán űrügynökség Epsilon S kis rakétahajtóműve pénteken - közölte a japán űrkutatási hivatal (JAXA).

durée : 00:08:29 - L'invité de 6h20 - La RoboCup, la plus grande compétition de robotique et d'intelligence artificielle du monde débute demain jusqu'au 10 juillet aux parc des expositions de Bordeaux : Olivier Ly enseignant-chercheur à l'université de Bordeaux, co-organisateur de la RoboCup 2023 est l'invité de 6h20.

Beim Robocup 2023 stehen statt menschlicher Spieler Roboter auf dem Fußballfeld. Austragungsort ist in diesem Jahr Bordeaux in Frankreich. Teams aus 45 Ländern sind dabei. Mit von der Partie: Berlin United. Von Lena Petersen

Ce mardi 4 juillet, le début de la RoboCup en France, la Coupe du monde de foot robotique, a été abordé par Anthony Morel dans sa chronique Culture Geek, dans l'émission Good Morning Business, présentée par Laure Closier et Christophe Jakubyszyn, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.

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Anicet Mbida nous livre chaque matin ce qui se fait de mieux en matière d'innovation.

Dopo cinque giorni di gare di robotica, Filippo Cracco e Alessandro Calli portano a il titolo di campioni di robotica europei.

What was once the stuff of science fiction has become reality. Robots are being used today for everything from fixing automobiles to exploring space, and they are increasingly becoming more human-like. Well-known roboticist Dr. Dennis Hong is the inventor of a number of cutting edge robots including those that can walk, climb, dance, and even play soccer. He also invented the world's first car that can be driven by the blind. How will this technology change our world? On this week's episode of Watching America, host Dr. Alan Cambell speaks with Hong about the possibilities and the next evolution in robotics engineering. https://www.romela.org/

Today Donn, Kyko and AJ are reacting to new weird news from the past week... get ready to be gobsmacked! Let us know what YOU think of the weird news during the show by posting your comments in the Chat to join the convo so we can read them Live on-air!! As always, after the live show, you can post comments below the recorded video to tell us what you thought of the news articles we found. Also, if YOU find a really strange news article, let us know at https://linktr.ee/weekendshowcase and we might add it to our next show's docket! (Crediting YOU, unless you don't want the credit!) #WeekendShowcase #weirdnews #headlines *SEND US A VOICEMAIL! * https://anchor.fm/weekendshowcase/message *FOLLOW US! SEND US SUGGESTIONS!* https://linktr.ee/weekendshowcase -------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMERS: This content is for informational/entertainment purposes only, and is not for profit. The opinions and perspectives expressed in this content are those of the commenters and guests portrayed, and can differ considerably; they do not reflect the opinions and perspectives of Weekend Showcase. Nothing shown or said on this show should be considered Legal, Medical or Financial advice. You should always do your own research and consult with properly trained and reputable professionals. The internet is full of fake news. Please take everything with a grain of salt. FAIR USE Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. -------------------------------------------- SOURCES available at this episode's YouTube page: https://youtube.com/live/-j_bOjNvQO0 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weekendshowcase/message

This week, Claire chatted to Alessandra Rossi from the University of Naples all about social robotics, theory of mind, and robots playing football. Alessandra Rossi is Assistant Professor at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Her PhD thesis was part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ETN SECURE project at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, and she is now a Visiting Lecturer and Researcher there. Her research interests include human-robot interaction, social robotics, explainable AI, multi-agent systems and user profiling. She is the team leader of RoboCup team Bold Hearts at the University of Hertfordshire, and Executive Committee member of the RoboCup Humanoid League.

Luis Lupián es Chief Technology Officer de Kingdom Technologies, una startup escocesa enfocada en el desarrollo de podadoras de césped autónomas que se ofrecen bajo el modelo de negocio de Robot-as-a-Service.En este episodio platicamos sobre su recorrido profesional que va desde el periodo en que era académico al 100% hasta la posición que hoy ocupa en Kingdom Technologies. Luis comparte detalles sobre su transformación, de cómo fue involucrándose poco a poco en proyectos industriales de robótica en México, posteriormente en Alemania y ahora en Escocia. Luis Lupián ha estado involucrado en el medio de la robótica móvil autónoma desde el 2004 y actualmente es el Chief Technology Officer de Kingdom Technologies en Escocia. Anteriormente trabajó durante tres años en Gestalt Robotics en Berlín, donde dirigió el desarrollo de tecnologías alrededor de la robótica móvil autónoma, las redes 5G y el cómputo en el borde enfocadas en clientes industriales alrededor del mundo. Fue también profesor investigador en la Universidad LaSalle en el área de robótica móvil autónoma en México, donde desarrolló robots humanoides autónomos jugadores de futbol junto con su equipo de estudiantes. Co-fundó y dirigió la Federación Mexicana de Robótica, y fue miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de la Federación RoboCup a nivel internacional. Dirigió el desarrollo de RoomieBot, el primer robot comercial producido en México.

Depois de conquistar o Brasil e a Améria Latina, nossos alunos se classificaram para o Mundial! A equipe do FB vai representar o Brasil na categoria Robocup Junior Rescue Maze, que irá ocorrer na França, em Bordeaux! Eles mesmo contaram suas experências neste episódio especial do FB Cast e aproveitaram para dar dicas super valiosas para quem quer começar na robótica! Está IMPERDÍVEL!

Okan Aşık - Robotlardan Amazona Uzanan Yolculuk - Konuşmacımız Okan Aşık'ın Özgeçmişi: Okan Aşık, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bilgisayar ve Öğretim Teknolojileri Eğitimi bölümünden birincilikle mezun oldu. Mezun olduğu yaz, Oyak Teknoloji'de e-öğrenme biriminde yazılım geliştiricisi olarak çalıştı. Kısa iş deneyiminden sonra Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği'nde robot laboratuvarında çoklu karar verme algoritmaları üzerine yüksek lisans yaptı. Yüksek lisanstan sonra yine aynı bölümde aynı konu üzerine Doktora eğitimine devam etti. Doktora ve yüksek lisans egitimi boyunca robot futbol takımıyla ve arama kurtarma simulasyon takımıyla RoboCup yarışmalarına katıldı. Doktora süresince araştırma görevlisi olarak çalıştı. Yine doktora süresince Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) ve JdeRobotics açık kaynak projelerinde Google Summer of Code kapsamında çalıştı, ayrıca JdeRobot projesinde mentorluk yaptı. 2019 yılında Devpaths ile silikon vadisi mülakatlarına hazırlandı ve 2020 yılında Amazon Intech'den teklif aldı. 2020 yılından beri Amazon Intech'de yazılım geliştirme mühendisi olarak çalışıyor. - Hakkımızda Kesişen Yollar Derneği, eğitim ve sosyal hizmet alanlarında Türkiye'ye yönelik çeşitli projeler geliştirmekte ve etkinlikler düzenlemektedir. Bu projeler ve etkinliklerdeki amacımız eğitimde fırsat eşitsizliğini azaltmak ve bunu yaparken de bambaşka dünyaları ve farklı hayat tarzlarını kesiştirmek, birbirimizden öğrenmek, esinlenmek ve birbirimize ilham kaynağı olmak. Her şeyin başı eğitim fakat biz bunun farklılıklara saygıyı, hoşgörüyü, empatiyi ve sosyal sorumluluk bilincini aşılayan bir eğitim olduğuna inanıyoruz. Bu inancı bizimle paylaşan ve bize destek olmak isteyen, etnik kökeni, inancı, siyasi görüşü, cinsiyeti, cinsel yönelimi ve yaşı ne olursa olsun herkesle ortak bir paydada buluşabileceğimize inanıyoruz. - Sosyal Medya ve İletişim : https://allmylinks.com/crossingpaths Bize destek olmak için : http://bit.ly/cpathsdonation

Schon mal was vom Robocup gehört? Was gibts so neues in der Robotik? Und wo geht es hin? Heute haben wir Arne zu Gast! Wir sprechen über Fußballspielende Roboter, Rollstühle die Menschen mit Behinderung unterstützen können und wie wir uns eine Roboterküche vorstellen. Wisst ihr übrigens wie Hörimplantate funktionieren? Oder was der Forer-Effekt ist? Antworten auf die Fragen und noch viel mehr hört ihr in der 38. Folge! Hört euch die spannende Folge an!

This Sun Oct 2, 7PM ET (an unusual time due to time difference), we, Prof. Minoru Asada of Osaka University (Japan). He is a co-founder of ROBOCUP competitions. He was the Research Director of the Japan Science and Technology Agency Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project in 2005 and 2012. In 2012, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science named him to serve as the Research Leader for the Specially Promoted Research Project (Tokusui) on Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding theProcess From Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction. He also received 2001 Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, And Technology, Japan Government as Persons of Distinguished Services to Enlighten People on Science and Technology(see his wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_... for more details) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research on robotics, Robocup, neuroscience, administrative work, Ph.D. Advising in Japan, Major research challenges in the field. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#mahsaamini #womanlifefreedom #Robocup #Robotics #computerscience #CS #neuroscience #PhDAdvising #Japan

In this episode, Peter Stone, executive director of Sony AI, joins Ben Wodecki to discuss this year's RoboCup and the AI that can beat you at Gran Turismo.

Le 25 aout, l'Ambassade de France coorganise à Adelaïde « la nuit des idées », un événement dédié aux transformations digitales. Cédric Buche, spécialiste de l'interface Homme-machine, lauréat de la Robocup 2022, sera présent pour y présenter ses travaux et son robot, Pepper. Interview.

Con nueva acompañante por culpa del Covid. Hoy co conduce María Laura Martino. Etiquetado frontal, subsidios energéticos. La noche de los bastones largos y mucha actividad cultural. Entrevistamos a Joaquín Rodríguez (15) que, junto a Alejandro de Ugarriza (16) obtuvieron el sexto puesto en la "Robocup 2022" de Tailandia. Hablamos de robótica, pero también de estímulos en la educación y perseverancia

Edição de 20 de Julho 2022

#62. Fernando Ribeiro é professor e investigador na área da robótica desde os anos 1990 e organizou a competição de 2022 do RoboCup Europeu. Conversa sobre o evento que juntou mais de 700 de 15 países, mas também a evolução da robótica nos últimos anos, a promessa não concretizada dos robôs mordomos (que não invalida que as nossas casas tenham cada vez mais robótica subtil), os carros-robô (da Tesla e companhia), os robôs da Boston Dynamics e o Tesla Bot. Falamos ainda das novidades da Apple.

33jähriger Mann bedroht Mitbewohner in Witzenhausen • Jugendherbergen in Kassel und Lauterbach erwarten wieder reguläre Gäste

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 390, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: You Bot It 1: In 1961 the world's first production-line robot was used by this U.S. automaker. General Motors. 2: Started in 1997 to develop robotics and A.I., the Robocup features robots playing this competitive sport. soccer. 3: The humanoid robot Asimo performs some John Travolta dance moves in this Disneyland "land". Tomorrowland. 4: This toy company created Mindstorms for robots, with programmable bricks and sensors. Lego. 5: For this robot vacuum, the company iRobot uses technology developed to clear minefields. Roomba. Round 2. Category: Medical Matters 1: Hemicrania, literally "pain on one side of the head", gives us this word for a terrible pain in the head. migraine. 2: Before becoming a resident, most medical college graduates spend a year in this capacity. intern. 3: Listen up! Teens and adults, as well as children, may have this disorder, ADD for short. Attention Deficit Disorder. 4: In 1997 dieters who'd taken this drug combination were advised to get checked for heart damage. Fen-phen. 5: Central vision is affected but peripheral vision is maintained in this degeneration. macular degeneration. Round 3. Category: Baseball Record Breakers 1: On Sept. 26, 1981 he hurled his record-breaking 5th no-hit game; he went on to pitch 2 more in his career. Nolan Ryan. 2: This Cincinnati Red had more career at-bats than any other player, 14,053; that's one reason for all those hits. Pete Rose. 3: In 2004 this Seattle Mariner had 262 hits, breaking an 84-year-old record. Ichiro. 4: In 2003 this Atlanta Braves pitcher set a record by winning at least 15 games for the 16th straight season. Greg Maddux. 5: While with the Rockies, this outfielder became the first Canadian-born major leaguer to collect 2,000 hits. Larry Walker. Round 4. Category: Trees Company 1: This timber tree of the genus Fraxinus sounds like what's left over after you burn some of it. an ash. 2: The yellow or silver type of this tree has peeling, papery bark when it's young. birch. 3: This tall tree can be lodgepole or ponderosa. a pine. 4: Trees of the genus Fraxinus are easily transplanted: these to these, dust to dust. ash. 5: It's the Asian tree-growing art represented here. Bonsai. Round 5. Category: The Company Line 1: In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger. McDonald's. 2: This housewares store was named for the packaging its merchandise came in and was first displayed on. Crate and Barrel. 3: This company's Accutron watch, introduced in 1960, had a guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month. Bulova. 4: Edward Teller and this man partnered in 1898 to sell high fashions to women. (Paul) Bonwit. 5: The Kirschner brothers, Don and Bill, named this ski company for themselves and the second-highest mountain. K2. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Techno minutos es traído a ustedes por El tech Guru y Liberty. Noticia #1- Los robots están listos para participar en la copa de fútbol RoboCup. Los estudiantes universitarios pondrán en práctica sus conocimientos de robótica en el torneo interregional de fútbol entre robots autónomos con inteligencia artificial, esta copa se celebrará en Japón en el mes de noviembre. Noticia #2- Skype anunció nuevos cambios para la aplicación de videollamadas y mensajería. La compañía mencionó en su blog que habrá mejoras en el diseño y la vista principal durante las llamadas, también las transmisiones de video cambiarán. Entre las innovaciones principales se encuentra la incorporación de nuevos fondos animados y la oportunidad de grabar las llamadas. Noticia #3- Amazon presenta a Astro, un robot con forma de perro que sabe interpretar órdenes como dirigirse a una habitación concreta de la casa o entregar un objeto a una persona determinada. Noticia #4- YouTube eliminará todo el contenido antivacunas de su plataforma. En una publicación en su blog, la plataforma informó que ha removido de su plataforma más de 130,000 vídeos por violar las políticas del COVID-19. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tecnominutos/support

A world-renowned expert in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), Dr. Manuela Veloso was a professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University and she took a leave of absence three years ago to be head of artificial intelligence research at JPMorgan Chase. In this role, she has applied AI to problems in economics, data management, and gender equity. She sits down with WOTM's Sam Saperstein to talk about her journey, what she loves about her job, and the future of AI and robotics. Working as a team Manuela Veloso earned her Master of Science in electrical engineering in Lisbon, Portugal, before coming to the United States in 1984 to begin work on a PhD. She made the switch to computer science after she came to see how computers can solve problems for people, a purpose that still resonates for her today. She became interested in robotics because while computers and AI could create plans, it took robots to execute them. She tells Sam that she never had interest in science fiction or robots before that. “I began addressing the robotics only because of my interest in seeing these plans that we'd created theoretically eventually, through a generation of actions, being executed,” she says. In 1996, Manuela cofounded a robotics soccer competition known as RoboCup, bringing together people's love of games, and soccer in particular, as a way of promoting robotics and AI research. The RoboCup is still held every year and has advanced from the days of single robots on wheels acting independently to today, where humanoid robots work as a team. A collaborative future Manuela sees a future in which humans and intelligence systems are inseparable. She relates this vision to a breakthrough she had at Carnegie Mellon about ten years ago when she was developing robots that would not be able to solve certain novel problems. “These robots would move down these corridors and then they would face a closed door, or they would have to press an elevator button or someone talked with them and they didn't understand what people were saying.” The robots would never be autonomous if they kept being stymied by these problems. “And then one day I decided that we wouldn't be able to solve this problem with more arms for the robots or better language technology. There will always be these limitations, intrinsic limitations in the robots.”  Her solution was “cohort robots,” or robots that work together with humans to solve problems. Manuela explains: “Basically if there was an obstacle in front of them, they would say, please, can you help me please? Excuse me, get out of my way, open the door, press the elevator button. They became autonomous, but asking for help.” She calls it “symbiotic autonomy.” She also calls it “the secret of the future.” “One day I believe that we will be always asking for assistance from AI,” she says. Because of the huge amount of data we've accumulated and continue to accumulate, the scale of our problems—whether it's at work, getting advice from a financial advisory, or just sorting the photos on our iPhones—is only getting bigger. Manuela says that humans who leverage AI to make decisions will be more trustworthy. Advice and Legacy Manuela hopes her legacy will be the simple notion that “problems can be solved.” But not even AI can solve them easily or right away. We have to put in the work, but we can celebrate progress. “And this is true for women in the job,” she adds. “This is the advice I always give: Break the difficult problems into pieces. Try to reward yourself, be happy when little pieces are accomplished. It's perfectly fine that the big piece is not there yet.” Take satisfaction in the steps along the way.  

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Wouter Kuijpers a former team captain of Tech United one of the most successful teams in the RoboCup (Middle Size League) explains the motivation for having a team of robots playing football autonomously. In addition, we learn how the RoboCup Federation organizes multiple leagues and how each league has different objectives and how constantly changing the rules helps accelerate research and development to get to the ultimate goal - 2050 team of robots be able to play 11 a side football against world cup winners. Check out the Tech United YouTube Channel to see some of their past games.

In 1997, Hiroaki Kitano, a research scientist at Sony, helped organize the first Robocup, a robot soccer tournament that attracted teams of robotics and artificial intelligence researchers to compete in the picturesque city of Nagoya, Japan. At the start of the first day, two teams of robots took to the pitch. As the machines twitched and surveyed their surroundings, a reporter asked Kitano when the match would begin. “I told him it started five minutes ago!” he says with a laugh.

Prof Claude Sammut is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales and head of the International Robocup 2019. He is one of the founders of the field of Inductive Logic Programming & also did pioneering work in the field of Behavioural Cloning. His current interests are focussed on Machine Learning applications in Robotics. In this episode we talk about how Prof. Sammut got started in the field of Robotics, dive down into what inductive logic programming is, discuss the difference between Behavioural Cloning & Imitation Learning, & talk about the International Robocup to be held at the International Convention Centre in Sydney, 2-8th of July 2019.  

David Litwak holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley. He has worked for Criteo, Northrop Grumman and Skype in the past and has founded FIRST and RoboCup robotics teams throughout his academic career. He has traveled to almost 70 countries on 4 continents, much of which is documented at his personal blog. He had the inspiration for Mozio while dealing with discount airliners in Europe and having to use multiple websites to compare buses vs. trains vs. planes.

Jason talks with Peter Stone, director of the Learning Agents Research Group at UT Austin, whose team, UT Austin Villa, won both the standard platform league and the 3D simulation league of the RoboCup 2012 competition. They discuss why robot soccer is a good motivating application domain for machine learning, how the RoboCup competition got started and the kinds of teams that participate, the offshoot competition RoboCup Jr, why the machine learning technique known as reinforcement learning works so well in complex, dynamic environments, the role played by game theory in multiagents systems, Peter's involvement in developing autonomous driving vehicles and what it's like to run an artificial intelligence laboratory.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming move back to LA, how Justin got his wife Georgie to do the voice over for some Pluggio instructional videos, why Justin is putting Pluggio on AngelList, Guyon's recent visit to LA, why Jason is holding office hours with Pat Maddox at Coloft, why there are going to be two back-to-back interviews on synthetic biology, the upcoming interview with machining learning expert and RoboCup champion Peter Stone, Jason's plan for teaching electronics to his son Colby and his strategy for bootstrapping a math and science academy, Google+ vs Twitter, how the EFF is taking up the patent fight with Defend Innovation, the cognitive overload of having a lot of browser tabs open, and Jason's surprising connections to Jeff Dean, John Conway, Sarah Brown and Amy Jo Johnson.