Blind Skateboarder: PhD robotics project works without vision or markers
___Mufasaa · x · 2026-08-15
PhD student Aditya Bhatt showcases "The Blind Skateboarder," the wildest robotics project of his PhD. The robot skateboards without any vision system or external markers. Paper, code, and weights are coming soon.
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