Foxglove CEO Adrian Macneil will talk about the recurring challenges he encountered while heading infrastructure at Cruise, and how that experience led to him founding Foxglove. Afterwards, we’ll have a live demo of the Foxglove platform, with some specific robotics development use cases. Source: 10 months ago

Let me challenge you on this one: We already know Volkswagen has CARIAD, Toyota has Woven (and TRI), Stellantis has STLA Brain, and GM has Ultifi and Cruise. Source: about 1 year ago

I think it's a shame that Cruise https://getcruise.com/ isn't mentioned thus far. They've been fully autonomous in San Francisco for something like a year, and are piloting in Austin and Phoenix(?) ... No need to own a car if it can be doing dozens of trips instead of paying for parking. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I’ve experienced this at Cruise AI myself as an engineer in the Machine Learning Accelerators (MLA) team. Deploying big, bulky models onto hardware constrained environments like an autonomous vehicle with strict system performance limits remain a significant challenge. Friends working at various AI and robotics teams have expressed similar frustrations. Source: about 1 year ago

I'm not sure what you can do to ride in a Waymo specifically, but if you're just looking to ride in a driverless car, you can also try Cruise. They have an autonomous fleet in SF, but I think they only operate after 10pm. More info here. Source: about 1 year ago

It's not NASA, but check out zooniverse.org if you haven't already. They have a rotating series of projects where you can get involved analyzing all sorts of things. Right now one of them is identifying distant galaxies to help measure dark energy. Source: 12 months ago

There are plenty where you do things like classify galaxies from photos, transcribe handwritten scientific notes, etc. No experience necessary. Just google. zooniverse.org, etc. Source: about 1 year ago

Volunteered on zooniverse.org where I helped identify and research wildlife and aquatic animals in photos to rescue and aid them. Source: over 1 year ago

Stuff like Zooniverse maybe? You can help researchers sort and analyze large amounts of data on a ton of different topics. Source: about 2 years ago

Before covid, I would have said I was an introvert, too. Surprise? I guess I’m not as much as I thought? You make a good point about volunteer work, when I had nothing else to do I started volunteering on zooniverse.org to keep busy. I think one way or the other, enough people would start wanting to do some kind of projects or work that not everyone would be sitting at home all the time, even if in the future not... Source: over 2 years ago