/AI-Robotics-Reading-List

AI and Robotics related papers and new articles that I have read or am planning on reading

AI-Robotics-Reading-List

AI and Robotics related papers, code, and news articles that I have read or am planning on reading

Companies

  • Dishcraft Robotics link // Kitchen robots (May seem like a niche market, but big opportunity with food industry)
  • Vicarious link // AI for robots (Bezos backed, Prof. Fei-Fei Li advisor)
  • Fetch Robotics link // Warehouse robots (Williow garage descendant CEO)
  • Embodied Intelligence link // AI for robots (UC Berkeley AI Research Lab descendants)
  • Right Hand Robotics link // E-commerce sorting robot
  • Kindred AI link // E-commerce sorting robot
  • Rethink Robotics link // E-commerce sorting, light manufacturing robot (iRobot/Roomba descendant CEO)
  • Amazon Robotics link // Warehouse robots (Aquired Kiva Systems $775M, 2012)

AI

Blogs

  • OpenAI link // Top-notch AI algs, environments, research, documentation, code
  • UC Berkeley AI Research Lab link // Bleeding edge AI research

Papers

  • Progressive Networks pdf // Transfer learning without forgetting previous tasks

  • Vicarious' Schema Networks: Zero-shot Transfer with a Generative Causal Model of Intuitive Physics pdf // Builds on transfer learning of Progressive Networks

Articles

  • Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with TensorFlow by Arthur Juliani link // 8 part series covering Q-learning, Policy Based Agents, A3C, etc.
  • 5 Common Machine Learning Problems and how neural nets are applied link // If you are confused about how Reinforcement learning relates to Neural Nets, regression, or un/supervised learning

Robotics

Papers

Environments

  • OpenAI roboschool link // OpenAI gym + bullet, physics engine
  • OpenAI gym + gazebo link // Train gazebo environments with Open AI gym API
  • Pybullet link // Accurate and fast physics simulator with support for articulated bodies. Examples include humanoids running using TensorFlow inference and KUKA arms grasping objects! Impressive