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New comment by comandillos in "ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike"

comandillos — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:29:19 +0000

Quite impressive this spacecraft will really orbit around a binary asteroid system using a camera-based autonomous navigation system

New comment by comandillos in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

comandillos — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:10:55 +0000

A 800B model that performs way worse than other 300B ones. Well...

New comment by comandillos in "What I self-host"

comandillos — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:25:09 +0000

Dont get it but... the starting page says that the blog itself is self-hosted but the article says he only exposes VPN services...?

New comment by comandillos in "Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics"

comandillos — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:06:12 +0000

The LLM right now tells a much lower level neural network controlling the legs, arms and head what and how to move at a ~ 500Hz freq, which controls thing like the stumbling. All motor joints and IMU inputs are given to an ONNX-based RL-trained NN which then outputs motor movements (scary since its works well for the scenarios where its has been trained, but it goes in unexpected ways for untrained scenarios).

In any case latency is acceptable for navigation I guess, but avoiding moving obstacles is definitely a no-go right now.

New comment by comandillos in "Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics"

comandillos — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:59:43 +0000

The one in that video is the G1, which is a bit taller and comes with more sensors, but there's a trick and it is the dexterous hands, which can easily cost 10k each.

Based on my very limited knowledge... if you would have dexterous hands with sensitivity on them you could theoretically train a VLA model to do that task, planned by a high-level model like Argon 4, that orchestrates everything. That would as well require in first place a VLA that has similar tasks in its training set and fine-tune it by means of recording hundreds of examples performing teleoperation of the robot hand and arms movements.

Not easy, but definitely getting more and more doable these days.

PS: Didn't spend 20k on hands for my 6k robot, but can confirm it has the cable harness to support them :D

New comment by comandillos in "Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics"

comandillos — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:36:42 +0000

As a tip from an owner... if you are planning to play around, maybe even the robot dog (Go2) can be a good start and comes with a LIDAR preinstalled. When humanoid robots enter into zero-torque / damping mode, it's 30 kg falling to the floor. I know it might sound stupid, but I didn't realize how heavy and scary this is, at least for me, once you have it in front of you.

New comment by comandillos in "Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics"

comandillos — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:16:58 +0000

Around 5.9k euros in Germany for the R1 Pro.

It's 1.23 and weights ~30kg. Even though only the R1 Edu can be in theory programmed, it can be easily modded to enable SSH and root access to deploy custom movement policies and interact with the different on-board daemons to control the movements, grab the video data, etc.

I bought a second-hand Intel DeepSense camera and plugged it on one of the spare USB ports available in the main board to have 3D sensing (even though I really need to play a bit more with it). Right now I am playing with MuJoCo for RL training of new policies, integration with VLAs like NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and integration with LLMs.

I have to say its being a wild ride, and despite the small size of the robot, I have already injured myself with it when playing with the walking policies (If you activate a policy while its hanging, it starts literally kicking and punching you...) I cannot image those owning with the bigger brother of it, the G1...

New comment by comandillos in "Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics"

comandillos — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:34:24 +0000

I am very new to robots and recently decided to go crazy and buy a humanoid from Unitree. I've spent a while building some tools in order to integrate LLMs with vision capabilities that can control the robot motion in a simple manner... and while I saw Opus and Astra crashing against tables, beds and surfaces (yeah, my LIDAR data isn't being used yet), Argon 4 takes a lot of precautions to avoid crashing against walls and other objects! I told my robot to go to a table, and the guy started walking slowly to the table, started steering at it and described the objects in it. Pretty scary for being something I've vibecoded in a matter of hours at home...

New comment by comandillos in "Apple HomeView"

comandillos — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:13:39 +0000

I was waiting for Apple to release something privacy-focused and instead they have decided not to release in Europe because 'it lacks AI'. You know what, all yours, I guess I will just buy an old Alexa and hack it.

New comment by comandillos in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

comandillos — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:42:29 +0000

I have a Mate 80 RS Ultimate Design and I think it looks beautiful in person, but as you know, Chinese and Western design preferences are very different, just look at their EV's (and how western brands are copying their designs)

New comment by comandillos in "Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech"

comandillos — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:00:19 +0000

why does Huawei need Qualcomm for handsets? Aren't the already producing their own processors at scale?

New comment by comandillos in "Windows 11½"

comandillos — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:26:43 +0000

I will follow your advice since its clear your wisdom is greater than mine.

New comment by comandillos in "Windows 11½"

comandillos — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:55:46 +0000

I've spent a few months trying to convince my management on getting a Macbook after fighting with a kernel memory leak that consumes the 128Gb of RAM in my freshly new Dell Pro Max 16 with Windows 11. It seems the best solution my IT gives me is to replace my laptop... which I have already done... three times.

New comment by comandillos in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

comandillos — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000

This extension and devcontainers is basically the way to go for large dev teams inmho

New comment by comandillos in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

comandillos — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:41:54 +0000

The Huawei uses a 1 inch sensor which is vastly superior in terms of hardware wrt to Apple's one

New comment by comandillos in "Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes"

comandillos — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:54:11 +0000

"You are a experienced iOS Software Engineer, your task is to migrate this application to the iPhone Duo layout...

New comment by comandillos in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

comandillos — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:46:55 +0000

I think this is a good chance to try and port Alyx (ARM64 build) to visionOS and run it on my Vision Pro headset which has been running around unused for the last two years xD

New comment by comandillos in "My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8"

comandillos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:43:01 +0000

> What modern LLMs do is apply brute-force computation to any domain expressible in language--not just a restricted chess domain. That's the algorithm.

Which means that companies with sufficient computational resources and money will be capable of unlocking problems thousands of times faster and more effective than any individual even when lacking the skills, just by a matter of try and error.

New comment by comandillos in "iPhone Duo"

comandillos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:34:27 +0000

I might be a weirdo, but even the mail client on iOS has serious deficiencies. Just getting an email with a zip attachment where I have to edit / sign a document with a certificate / something, rezip and send back is a hell in iOS, while it simply feels natural in Android.

New comment by comandillos in "iPhone Duo"

comandillos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:21:42 +0000

What's the value of using one of these phones running iOS? iOS is great for media consumption and not so much for productivity... so I don't understand very well the use cases... apart from watching Netflix I guess?