(As usual, I hope this makes it a bit easier to use @toyota-tri.bsky.social 's Drake toolbox.)

#Robotics #Simulation #OpenSourceSoftware

Check out the release notes here:

open.substack.com/pub/bromrele...

And, as usual, you can quickly install the newest version of Brom with:

pip install brom-drake

Dr. Suh wrote a lot of great papers during his PhD, but this was one of my favorites:

proceedings.mlr.press/v229/suh23a/...

We added a single flag so that the `drakeify_my_urdf` function creates "better" collision geometries for you!

Read more about this in the release notes:

open.substack.com/pub/bromrele...

Oof. This was actually BabyTron. 😭 They both have a similar Detroit accent, tho, so I understand why there is confusion.

(at least during the next few years).

Let's hope that the ramifications of this decision don't ripple much longer than the next election.

AND let's hope that "being the foremost country for scientific research" goes back to being a non-controversial/nonpartisan priority for the government. [2/2]

They had classes in automata theory, AI, info theory, algorithms, optimization, control theory, and even social decision making. It had a perfect Cyber-Physical Systems curriculum before CPS was a thing (well cybernetics was a thing): drive.google.com/file/d/12SEj...

From what I've heard from former Uber employees, they are capable of understanding commute patterns and have unintentionally (?) influenced them in the past. 😔 I hope they're not doing this in Ann Arbor.

And then finally there are Brom's Production objects.

I will return to these in a later post, but if you want to start playing around with any of these things, then install Brom by running:

pip install brom-drake

Also, you can view the code here:

github.com/kwesiRutledg...