A New Life in Reno

Dear Blog. This whole month was dedicated to the Darpa SubT Challenge: our team (Cerberus) is composed by different entities from all around the world so you can image how hard is to organize meetings between Zurich, Reno, Oxford and Berkeley. Two weeks to go Two weeks before moving to Seattle, the place where the competition took place, our team mates from Zurich landed in Reno for a full-time integration phase. And guess what? The head of the Zurich team is Italian! (yes, capital I). I missed Europe so much and spending a so intense amount of time with europeans I think made me even more malinchonic (I know, I am a sentimental person!). I am not allowed to describe in details how all our algorithms work, but the logic is to use both ground, legged and flying robots to exend as much as possible the total explored space. I was so lucky I could even calibrate the VI system on Anymal! That was so much fun. Aaaaah I love robots!! Trip to lake Tahoe I was here alr...

Dear Blog, These past weeks have been insane. I almost thought about stopping training to leave time for study and research.  BUT NOT TODAY. This is the past month summary (I know, huge delay) Exams At the end of the semester I had to to finals, and I survived. The problem, as usual, is doing great at the same time in research and academic. But I guess I am good for now. Overall all the classes I took so far were interesting and well presented (one of them particularly hard). Gettin Ready for the Darpa SubT Challenge https://www.subtchallenge.com/ In one word? Chaos. The lab is a mess, everyone was crazy, the production level raised by 200%, everybody working like no tomorrow from 8am to 3am the next day and repeat. Kinda experience I would say. If you never tried the feeling of writing code all night long, you should try! Bday! The best moment ever? trying to light up a candle with a power supply without burning the whol...