[ilaksh]

Anyone know of any resources for advanced computer vision? This seems like a critical starting point.

And I don't mean using OpenCV or something to draw boxes around objects. I mean understanding the 3d scene in detail. And ideally even understanding the dynamics of the world.

Also, anyone have any experience with HASEL artificial muscles or something similar? Anyone know a reason I shouldn't pursue that over servos?

[WanderPanda]

I never heard of HASEL artificial muscles and just looked them up. Very interesting! But the main downside seems to be the high voltage requirement. Hopefully there are more innovations in the space of robotic actuators. I hate that servos usually are not compliant and rather are controlled by position and not by torque / force. I believe active compliance is not a real replacement for passive compliance in most use cases

[jrussino]

> I mean understanding the 3d scene in detail

For “classical” (non-ML) computer vision/photogrammetry, you may be interested in this text by Hartley & Zisserman:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/multiple-view-geometry-...

[bkarwoski]

I took this graduate course, which I think did a good job covering more advanced / modern CV approaches: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~ahowens/eecs504/w20/ The python notebooks are locked, but the slides & recommended reading materials are freely available.

[ilikerashers]

There is a startup called slamcore doing this in London. They've some interesting talks with the founder on their site.