§ RESEARCH

What we publish, and what we're asking.

Two kinds of work live here. Field guides are finished, peer-reviewed decision guides the team writes to save the next member six weeks. Open questions are the research we're actively investigating, status is honest, and a planned item is a line, not a dead link.

Field guides

PEER-REVIEWED DECISION GUIDES · WRITTEN AND REVIEWED BY THE TEAM

SIMULATION & VALIDATION PUBLISHED

Simulation stack

A decision guide to six robotics simulators, Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Webots, CoppeliaSim, PyBullet, and which trade-off each one is really asking you to make.

15 MIN · ISHAN A-GREAD →

ENGINEERING PUBLISHED

Choosing a motor

Brushed DC, brushless, stepper, servo, how the four classes differ on torque, speed, control and cost, with a manufacturers directory and glossary.

15 MIN · MOHAMMED RIAZREAD →

Open questions

FOUR THEMES · ONE AGENDA · WHAT WE'RE INVESTIGATING NOW

The specifics of any platform or deployment are held internally. What's public is the shape of the questions, and the findings we choose to share. One is published; the rest are on the roadmap below.

Sim & Validation The sim-to-real gap, a gait tuned in simulation that held on real hardware at first bring-up PUBLISHED →

Sim & Validation Tuning a gait before touching hardware: period, duty and step length searched in sim, and the cost of every parameter we got wrong IN PROGRESS

Engineering Power budgeting on a legged robot: where the battery actually goes IN PROGRESS

Engineering Maintaining a robot across a graduating team: documentation as an engineering constraint, not an afterthought PLANNED

Human-Robot Interaction How a robot should behave around bystanders, making intent legible to someone who never asked to meet a robot IN PROGRESS

Human-Robot Interaction What an operator needs to see: telemetry a person can act on under time pressure PLANNED

Policy & Ethics Accountability when a field robot fails, operator, builder, or institution? PLANNED

Policy & Ethics What a search robot should be allowed to record: capability versus surveillance PLANNED

Want to write one of these?

Research is a division, not a credential. If a question here interests you, that is enough to start on it, the two guides above began exactly that way.

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