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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Funny how lots of #robotics companies are pushing for robotics in the _real world_. This is probably becoming a buzzword in the field. Now, we just need to determine what is _real world_ and what is _fake world_

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This November, I had the opportunity to attend #ROSConFR in Strasbourg. Here is a summary of the discussions that happened during these two enriching days damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/roscon-...

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ROSCon FR & DE 2025 highlights

Highlights from Strasbourg

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Vibe coding is when your QA Engineer doesn't know what is a unit test

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Excited to announce UVT-RS, my first #robotics project in #Rust! 🦀 It’s a set of crates for working with Uncrewed Vehicle #Trajectory (UVT) files. This project was a great way to learn Rust crate development and robotics #data formats. More infos on #GitHub: github.com/IamPhytan/uv...

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Got recently added to a development team where half of the developers are vibe coders. Breaking changes and half-implemented features are added to the codebase every day. Brb will try to enforce code protection rules and will add a test suite

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

There is most probably at least one person right now on Earth right now that reads and interacts with more LLM-written than human-written text on a daily basis. We live in a society

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Future is not buying the latest tech devices, but reusing old devices. I had a Galaxy Tab tablet that was made obsolete with latest #Android versions. I recently recovered it and installed #LineageOS on it. Now, it is perfect for reading and annotating #robotics papers on the go! #research

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📢 New Paper Alert! Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for #Semantic #Segmentation of High-Resolution #UAV Images for Natural #Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment Paper 📄: doi.org/10.3390/f160... Blog post 🌐: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/forests... Code 💻: github.com/norlab-ulava... #AI

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Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution UAV Images for Natural Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Published in MDPI Forests journal!

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In this paper, we trained a DINOv2 -based classifier on iNaturalist data to generate 140k pseudo-labels from #UAV imagery. The labels were used to pretrain and fine-tune a semantic #segmentation model, outperforming manual labelling on plant species segmentation 🌲. #RemoteSensing #ComputerVision

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution UAV Images for Natural Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Published in MDPI Forests journal!

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Of course, these lists were just started. They are far from being exhaustive 😉

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

📢 Two new blog posts! I've come across so many great resources lately that I had to start compiling them in one place. So here are two posts packed with links for anyone starting in #Robotics 🤖 and #AI 🧠. - 🤖: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/robotic... - 🧠: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/ai-reso...

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Artificial Intelligence Resources

Learning resources for anyone interested in the vast domain of AI

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Vous êtes à la recherche d'un petit projet d'ingénierie à faire ce soir ? Venez sur Twitch voir @barbatronic.bsky.social enseigner les bases de @freecad.bsky.social ! C'est une bonne entrée de matière pour apprendre à maitriser la conception 3D ! www.twitch.tv/barbatronicl... #FreeCAD #CAD

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FreeCAD en multijoueur - Live 220 #CAO

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

While I took a year off of robotics competitions, my robotics team is getting ready for #Eurobot 2025! Team #Chat #Robotique 🐱 will be participating in the largest #robotics competition in #Europe, in #France at the end of May. Stay tuned for more updates!

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

When in front of a new device: - Gamers: Can it run Doom? - Some companies: Can it run Java? Can it run C#? - Roboticists: Can it run #ROS? #Robotics #Programming

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In 2023, in preparation to the holidayd, I designed and soldered about 20 small Christmas tree🎄 PCBs to give to my relatives. This year, I've cleaned it up and published it as an open-source hardware project: github.com/IamPhytan/ch.... #OpenHardware #PCBArt #Electronics #PCB #Embedded

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Barbatronic @barbatronic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Know anyone looking for a talented roboticist? My friend is skilled and ready to join a great team ! 🦾 Check out their CV and share if you can ! #Robotics #Hiring

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

(2/2) On the downside, I have been applying for #jobs since September, with few replies. The end of 2024 has been a moment of uncertainty for me, with many questions and few answers. I hope that 2025 will be a better #year to get hired. Until then, here is my resume: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/cvitae

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Curriculum Vitae

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

(1/2) 2024 was a year with lots of ups and downs I had the opportunity to see a solar #eclipse, attend AI talks in #MILA, publish my first paper as a first author, finish a master's degree in robotics, compete in a European #robotics contest in #France, and attend #IROS2024 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

A robot on which I worked for in the Eurobot robotics contest

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A gift idea for all your #maker friends : storage boxes (cookie boxes may also work 🍪) #robotics #electronics #hardware #engineering

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This year, while writing my master's thesis, I found this great blog post from @rerun.io that shows the structure of #rosbags. I recommend it to anyone who wonders how rosbags work. It helps understand why not all rosbags can be easily recovered when your robot's battery dies 🪫. rerun.io/blog/rosbag

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From the Evolution of Rosbag to the Future of AI Tooling

Thirteen years ago, Willow Garage released ROS (the Robot Operating System) and established one of the standard productivity tools for the entire robotics industry.

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🖼️ A figure with #TikZ is worth a thousand words To present the underlying logic behind a #rosbag, I made a figure for my #thesis illustrating a field experiment and the timeline of a rosbag. Each tick represents a message and each color represents a #ROS topic. #Robotics #Research #Robot #LaTeX

A figure made with LaTeX that shows a robot in a landscape, in front of a mountain, between a tree and bushes

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 #Rust #Rustlang 🦀

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Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Solved the first #AdventOfCode challenge. This year, I'll be mostly using #Rust to solve the problems

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If there is enough interest, I may release everything as a #opensource #hardware project on @github.com

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

'Tis the Season for #Makers At this time of the year last year, I made some small #Christmas #tree shaped #PCBs. Everything was done with #FOSS: @freecad.bsky.social for the outline, Inkscape for the decorations, @kicad.org for the PCB design, PlatformIO for programming. #Electronics #Robotics

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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#Robotics packs Biggest: bsky.app/starter-pack... (full) Open source: bsky.app/starter-pack... Women: bsky.app/starter-pack... Vision: bsky.app/starter-pack... Distributed: bsky.app/starter-pack... AI: go.bsky.app/DfAoaJ1 More: bsky.app/profile/scot...

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Are you looking to hire someone 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 with an Elec Eng and Robotics background? With experience in migrating robots from #ROS to #ROS2? Who developed #Python packages on PyPI for processing ROSBag datasets and driving DC motors on a 100 kg research robot? Interested in ML? If yes, send me a DM 😀

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Since finishing my M.Sc. degree in Comp Sci (Field Robotics) and attending #IROS2024, I have seen many use cases of #MachineLearning in robotics🤖, from #SLAM to #Control. Are there any good resources for people with a #robotics background who want to use more ML in their #research?

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Clearpath Robotics #husky UGV electrical architecture diagram made with #TiKZ #latex #robotics #ROS #ROS2

Electrical architecture of a Clearpath Husky

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello 👋! I'm interested to be added 🙋

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Field #Robotics be like: "Robot, can you pick the coffee cup and place it on the table over there?" #Robotics #RoboticsResearch #Research

A robot in front of a pick-and-place mission.
He is asked to fetch a coffee cup on a counter and to cross a minefield, a pile of snow, a pool and a pile of sand before placing the cup on a table

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Barbatronic @barbatronic.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Hello there !

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