Arjun Virk
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What a robot actually is: the sense–plan–act loop, joints, degrees of freedom, actuators, sensors, and why parallel parking is hard. What a robot actually is, once you strip away the sci-fi: a body that senses, decides, and moves, plus the loop that ties those three together. Where we're going Here's the uncomfortable truth that makes robotics hard and beautiful at the same time: a neural network that's wrong just outputs a bad number, but a robot that's wrong knocks a glass off the table. Everything in this guide is downstream of that one fact. Software gets to live in a clean world of…
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