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Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Competition and Collaboration in Robotics Research

This chapter explores the competitive landscape of robotics through benchmarking events like the DARPA challenge, highlighting both its motivating and demotivating effects on innovation. It also addresses the transformation of academic publishing toward open-access models, discussing the peer review process and the challenges researchers face in maintaining quality amidst the pressure to publish rapidly.

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