Aug 1, 2022Experience working at Cruise! 🚀It was an extremely exciting time to be working at Cruise. We had just launched our product (driverless rides) in SF, and we were receiving direct feedback from our customers daily. …10 min read10 min read
Apr 25, 2021Soft Robotic Hand for Stroke Rehabilitation3D Printed Soft Robotic Glove for Stroke Rehabilitation Equipped With Q-Learning for Sensing and Control. According to the WHO, 15 million people suffer from a stroke worldwide each year. Of these, 5 million die, and another 5 million are permanently disabled. This makes stroke the 2nd leading cause of death…Soft Robots11 min readSoft Robots11 min read
Mar 15, 2021SophiaDAO: Governance Organization for AGI DevelopmentI’m working alongside Hanson Robotics (HR) and SingularityNET Foundation (SN) to create an organizational “guardianship”, called the SophiaDAO. This organization is designed to nurture the development of advanced human-like robots such as Sophia. This would be an upgradeable decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) as a means to create a public/private initiative…7 min read7 min read
Feb 9, 2021Closed-Loop Vision-Based Manipulation TechniqueManipulation of real-world objects is one of the most important limits of machine intelligence. As humans, we can easily grasp and pick up objects that we’ve never seen before, but even the most advanced robotic arms can’t manipulate objects that they weren’t trained to handle. I’ve been working with the…Robotics7 min readRobotics7 min read
Jan 31, 2021Building out Sophia 2020: An Integrative Platform for Embodied CognitionI’ve been working with Hanson Robotics and in collaboration with the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) & SingularityNet we’re working to develop the new Sophia 2020 platform. Sophia is a humanoid that acts as a platform for advanced robotics and AI research, particularly for understanding human-robot interactions. The Sophia 2020…6 min read6 min read
May 20, 2020Robotic hand that can see for itselfUsing Deep Learning to build a cheaper, vision prosthetic arm. — There are about 2 million amputees in the U.S. alone, and that number is expected to nearly double to 3.6 million by 2050. However, current prosthetics aren’t accurate with their grasp and grip control. …10 min read10 min read
Mar 6, 2020Robots from simulation into realityTransfer Learning for Robotics with Generative Adversarial Networks — As a kid, I remember watching Star Wars and thinking “damn, those robots are crazy-sophisticated”. They were smart and able to walk in various different environments. Contrary to most people, this didn’t scare me but instead got me really excited … but I was shocked to know that machines aren’t…Robotics6 min readRobotics6 min read
Jan 26, 2020Inverse Kinematics in Robotics using Reinforcement LearningWe see robotic mechanisms in our daily lives, it’s a huge industry and one that won’t stop appearing in our future. The robotics industry is expected to reach 210 billion U.S. dollars by 2025. I got interested in understanding how robots work on a fundamental level and how we can…Robotics7 min readRobotics7 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Dec 22, 2019Hospitals are losing $41.3B due to this problemHere’s how I solved it — One of the biggest problems in healthcare is the rising cost of patient readmission. This is when a hospital who recently discharged a patient gets penalized for having that patient return to a hospital within 30 days. This often costs hospitals a total of $528 million. American hospitals alone have…Machine Learning10 min readMachine Learning10 min read
Nov 30, 2019How to superpower your thinking🔑The key to powerful thinking is powerful questioning. When we ask the right questions, we succeed as a thinker and progress as a society. If we think of all of the big innovations in our world like the internet or the lightbulb, they all started with one question “How can…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
