Vintage robotics video: a handful of PhDs testing modular architectures in the wild
abursuc · x · 2026-09-18
A vintage research video shows early robotics work starting with modular architectures, which soon proved painful to assemble and update. A handful of PhDs, postdocs and engineers tested things in the wild, capturing how tiny teams once did embodied research.
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