Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk
A link to my latest research on building an affordable robotics research setup.
Matthias Plappert
Personal blog of Matthias Plappert — AI, machine learning, robotics, and more.
Latest posts
AI wants direct access to your data
Why I switched my note taking app and built my own personal finance app: AI works best with direct, bidirectional access to your data.
You have to earn your calculator
On the temptation of LLMs, and why sometimes you still need to do the work by hand.
Deepfakes for code and the asymmetric internet
AI hasn't just given us a new kind of spam—it has broken the economics of noise. The filter exists, but only if you can afford it.
Let's talk about the humanoid robot in the room
General purpose humanoid robots are like self-driving, but actually much harder.
Embrace your laziness in the age of AI
AI agents remove the natural friction that kept us from overbuilding. Now you have to be your own regularizer.
Hello, world!
Welcome to my new blog.