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		<title>Motion planning with OpenRave: an IPython notebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Base pose planning with OpenRave Disclaimer: This is my first attempt at a tutorial using IPython notebooks. This is made all too complicated by the fact that I am using OpenRave that launches an external process with th viewer. To create this post I used nbconvert then imported the resulting html in WordPress. The result [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=144&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Challenge for Robotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like yesterday when I had just started my PhD and I was looking with awe at the first DARPA Grand Challenge (2005). Seeing cars race in the desert with no driver, knowing that the world was being changed before my eyes. It wasn&#8217;t the development of particularly new technologies, but showing that research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=120&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5/4 time, Jazz, David Brubeck and&#8230; Radiohead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I know I called this blog &#8220;Fantastic Machines&#8221;, and I promised I would talk about robotics, science, programming or related topics, but this is too mind-blowing to ignore. Just by chance I stumbled upon this post by John Cook. Music and mathematics share a lot, and he does a good job at explaining the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=108&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Baxter Means for Research in Robotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short story: awesome! You can keep reading now if you want to know why I think so. Today I was listening to an interview of Rodney Brooks speaking about Baxter. When I saw it featured on IEEE Spectrum I thought: &#8220;Cool, let&#8217;s see where it goes&#8221;. But listening to Brooks describing his creature gives you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=80&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Account of Wrapping C++ in Python</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the AI-challenge competition I am participating to, I found that path planning (using A*) was (obviously!) the  slowest part of my Python code.  It turned out that 80% of the computation was spent planning! So I decided to find some good C++ code, wrap it in  Python and give it a go. The code [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=72&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Complex Dance of a Prey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my research on Emergent Behaviours I&#8217;ve been often questioned about the usefulness of something that you can&#8217;t control, you can&#8217;t predict and seems to be totally random. I&#8217;m not going through these points here, I&#8217;ll let the future talk about the past. However, scientifically speaking, I need to prove a few points. In particular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=68&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robotic tales from the real world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my PhD I worked on two &#8220;real world&#8221; projects, namely an indoor and an outdoor robotic museum tour guide. This is a short account of that experience, rather than a description of what I did (which the interested reader can find here). Cicerobot The first project looked like CMU Minerva. A robot guides the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=49&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quantifying the wow effect of a robot &#8212;  Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post I introduced the Kolmogorov complexity and how to calculate it using a few lines of Python. Here I will show how to calculate the complexity of a robot behaviour. The first thing is to define is what are we calculating the complexity of. A robot behaviour, according to classic robotics, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=35&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quantifying the wow effect of a robot &#8212;  Part I</title>
		<link>http://lorenzoriano.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/quantifying-the-wow-effect-of-a-robot-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is a two parts post, as I realised while writing it that it was growing without control.] As a roboticist I spend most of my time dealing with robots. I program them, debug them, watch them perform some tasks. I might be surprised and thrilled by things people could judge as boring, or I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=27&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being surprised by a robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Riano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I stumbled over a podcast with an interview of Kristinn R. Thórisson. One part of the interview that stimulated my curiosity has been his (and many others) view that a robot behaviour, regardless of how smart it may be, looses its &#34;wow&#34; effect when it is known how this behaviour is generated. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorenzoriano.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13986339&#038;post=17&#038;subd=lorenzoriano&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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