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>What's your current professional background? Python - a bit machine learning background in the financial sector. Have worked on performance critical software in pure C as well as some Data Science / Machine Learning projects. So a bit far away from robotics. Still hope to be able to get it, at least in form of an internship. Just not sure where to start.

> Robotics takes a lot of people and money > Robotics is a wide field with many opportunities Excactly, seems right now that it is pretty expensive and a wide field. Let's say I would like to be able to train a robot to "Open the fridge and take out a beer". That would be something "cool" and guess possible with current technology. Especially after looking what boston dynamics can do... So where would you go?

> Let's say I would like to be able to train a robot to "Open the fridge and take out a beer". That would be something "cool" and guess possible with current technology. Especially after looking what boston dynamics can do...

Well yeah, but you realize that BD has at least 10s or more of engineers work on such their projects.

I think with your background I would opt for a pre-made platform (there are many, don't have experience with any of them) where you worry mostly about the software.

Maybe, just use your laptop webcam or a Raspberry Pi to do computer vision, somewhat related to your DS/ML experience.

Thanks man!

>I think with your background I would opt for a pre-made platform (there are many, don't have experience with any of them) where you worry mostly about the software.

Yeah guess this is realistic.

> Maybe, just use your laptop webcam or a Raspberry Pi to do computer vision, somewhat related to your DS/ML experience.

To be honest I just don't see computer vision as a challenge. Guess the interesting part comes in object manipulation. So if I could get a "good" robotic arm that in theory could make cup of tea. That would be great... It just seems there is nothing available, that is somehow accesible without spending more than 10k on it.

I know what you mean. Object manipulation is just something where even the hardware is really expensive.

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