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Pranay Thangeda

@pthangeda.bsky.social

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I like robotics and decision making in (almost) every flavor :) PhD Candidate at UIUC and Applied Science Intern at Amazon Robotics.

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

As we are wrapping up 2024, here is my robotics wish-list for 2025: 1. A sub $1000 arm with high repeatability and >= 1.5 Kg payload 2. A sub $2000 fully holonomic mobile base like TidyBot++, preferably with vertical linear rails like Watney Robotics: watneyrobotics.com

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So writefull - which seems to be some sort of AI-assisted writing tool - popped up on my overleaf by default. I looked at some of it's suggestion and boy it's very opinionated in writing style lol I wonder if this would lead to every paper being written in the same generic tone

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

What are these PhD-level tasks?!

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And yet all these posts somehow conveniently ignore the fact the in Switzerland health insurance is completely provided through private insurers and yet has like 1/3 the admin costs of US Quite ironic they mention arrogance and ignorance.

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I just realized that until recently almost all robot arms in research labs were from European companies. e.g., UR5, Franka Panda, KUKA. Most platforms that researchers are getting these days are from China, e.g., Unitree, AgileX, etc.

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I keep telling my friends my life would be so much easier if we had a subreddit with grad students working on robot learning. People rarely say "Pranay wtf why did you even do a-b-c when you could have just done z" on my face.

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that every tool/library has an active discord server these days. But does it really have to be discord? It’s a closed forum, none of the discussions are indexed by search engines. I google something and never find an answer but it was in discord a while ago!

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The lack of bookmark option is bsky is getting annoying as I spend more and more time here. I always knew I was a hoarder but damn I miss bookmarking a lot Like bsky at least let me dm myself so that I can use it as a proxy for my bookmarks! This shouldn’t be that hard to implement, right?

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Rerun (rerun.io) is honestly a must have in your robotics workflow, especially if you have data from multiple modalities! I found it a few months ago and use it almost every single day either to monitor a process online or to inspect some of the data I logged.

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Pranay Thangeda @pthangeda.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Well it’s my first day on this app and this is the first tweet so I’ll start with a hot take: free space motion should be planned not learned. Arm motion without contact ? Plan a trajectory. Robot navigating in home from A to B? Do the same! Just because we can learn it doesn’t mean we should.

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