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Neato

Bringing vision to robot vacuum cleaners for sock and USB cable avoidance

Robotics SWE:

Tech Stack

C++, Python, ROS, React, AWS, TensorFlow

What I Learned

My Favorite Memory

  • All about cameras and how to validate/choose a camera that complements our obstacle avoidance algorithms

  • Processing of image + point cloud data, running plane segmentation, and running clustering algorithms on an embedded device with limited compute (see videos above)

  • The importance of an automated testing infrastructure to catch daily bugs in master

  • How lidars work and the importance of the robot "shimmy" for docking on contact chargers

Attending a taping of BattleBots and rooting on team Ghost Raptor!

Patent

2022, U.S. Patent No. 11272823
“Zone Cleaning Apparatus and Method”

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