Mathieu De Coster

The future of robotics will be Rusty

Reposting this, as if I have bigger reach than @rust-lang.org Anyway, the world would benefit from more efficient and safe software, that’s for sure. Would love to use more Rust in my job (and so do some of my colleagues)

Millennials: “What is wrong with kids today, shouting ‘6 7’ all the time? It doesn’t even mean anything.” Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”

AI models are 50% more sycophantic than humans go.nature.com/4ol1Quq

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human

I’ve not bought a #Battlefield game since BC2, and today I read BF6 has a queue. Why does it have a queue? Didn’t we solve online play decades ago?

Today, on the International Day of the #Deaf, the Flemish Sign Language Expertise Centre launched a world-first dictionary search system supporting over 10k signs. It’s based on my #PhD research, continued by a PhD student I’m co-supervising now. Very proud! gebaren.ugent.be Check it out

Excellent graphs in that #chatgpt5 press talk 🫠

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-... A bitter lesson I and many others have had too many times, in my #phd, in #gamedev: perfect is the enemy of good Excellent read!

We zitten dan wel in een hittegolf, de #PhDCup-inschrijvingsgolf is alvast gaan liggen ⏰ Het bulletin? 80 #doctors dingen naar een plekje in de Vlaamse PhD Cup 2025 🏆 Meer info 👉 www.phdcup.be/nieuws/storm...

“Any time I hear the goal being ‘AGI’ in the context of these LLMs, I feel like listening to a bunch of 18th-century aristocrats trying to get to the moon by growing trees.” I rather like this analogy I found on hackernews. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436...

Upgrade your end of life Windows 10 pc to Linux! endof10.org/nl/

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

Windows 10 support is ending and not all PC hardware supports Windows 11. I, for example, have a perfectly good PC at home that cannot upgrade. Better than avoiding a large investment and creating more e-waste? Giving your hardware another 5 to 10 years of life with Linux

🍹 Our robot butler, previously featured by VRT NWS (lnkd.in/e_7n4QWC), will serve drinks to attendees of imec ITF World. 🤖 It will do this fully autonomously, from grabbing bottles from the fridge, to detecting glasses, pouring drinks, and discarding empty bottles. AIRO.ugent.be/itfworld

Our robot butler was shown on Monday on national television, serving chocolate milk to passersby. Our work on general purpose robots continues!

Neen. Journalisten van The Daily Express hebben een wetenschappelijke paper door Midjourney gedraaid. Wat daaruit komt is geen reconstructie!

A successful demo of IDLab-AIRO (imec-UGent)‘s mobile robot serving drinks to students. Great work by one of our PhD students #robotics

Met hierin ook een van mijn andere stokpaardjes - software kan ZOVEEL efficiënter, en dat zou ZOVEEL elektriciteit schelen: tw.nl/hoe-komen-we...

Een browser zonder adblock kan je missen als lauwe pis ik zat op YouTube en ik schrok WIL JIJ WETEN HOEVEEL JOUW AUTO WAARD IS

Did Godot just have its Blender 2.8 moment? 4.4 looks pretty amazing #gamedev #godot

Tomorrow is the day of my internal defence. Spotify is helping me stay motivated with some excellent Hans Zimmer. I’m ready, bring on your questions! #phdlife

I was wondering recently why I signed up to do 5 live demos over the span of one month, but science communication is always so fulfilling! I think we made some bright youngsters interested in AI and robotics today. There’s a lot to say about academia, but it’s the best job I could wish for #PhDSky

This limbo between handing in and defending feels weird. I’m trying to figure out how to pass the time in a useful way #phdsky

Does anyone else dream of a world where FOSS is dominant, PCs run Linux on ARM and native applications are the standard (no Electron)? No? Just me? Bonus: Rust becomes standard in AI and Robotics 🚀

I’m excited that I can finally share that our AMAI project got accepted! My talented colleagues will be creating search functionality for the Flemish sign language dictionary based on research done during my PhD studies amai.vlaanderen/projecten/pr...

Hey there Mr. Blue (sky)