nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2004-03-12 12:49 pm

McGill Ambulatory Robotics Lab

So cool! Check out the movies!

Now I want to work on lasers and robots!

Following links from that page, I found that Berkeley is [a minor] part of the consortium that made that nifty swimming robot! on the Berkeley page I found some advice to graduate students that might be handy. One pithy bit on choosing a thesis topic: ``Never elaborate a baroque excrescence on top of existing but shaky ideas. Go right to the foundations and test the implicit but unexamined assumptions of an important body of work, or lay the foundations for a new research thrust.''

[identity profile] ragnus.livejournal.com 2004-03-12 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"2) Nothing elicits dominant behavior like subservient behavior. Expect and demand to be treated like a colleague. The paper requirements are the explicit hurdle you will have to jump, but the implicit hurdle is attaining the status of a colleague. Act like one and you'll be treated like one."

!!!!!

[identity profile] janviere.livejournal.com 2004-03-12 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Lasers! Robots! Robots with attached lasers! Lasers with attached robots! Humanoid robots with lasers on their heads!