Hi! I'm Gui, an Engineering Manager helping clients during the day and a robotics enthusiast during the night. Currently building small robots because why not. I also write from time to time about engineering, tech and the how AI meets the physical world at Binary Paths.
Teleoperation works. Next: imitation learning with LeRobot, then sim-to-real in Isaac Sim. Some days the arms do exactly what I ask. Most days they don't.
Two 6-DOF arms built from scratch: 3D-printed from open-source designs, twelve STS3215 servos, leader-follower teleop. The first time I grabbed the leader and watched the follower mirror me in real time, that was the trigger. Now I'm teaching it to do things on its own.
On engineering, teams, and the strange joy of building things you can touch. From Binary Paths.
My DevOps world. Kubernetes, WebAssembly, and platform engineering. These days my research is more about robotics, but I still continue to work on cloud-native stuff.
I started in automotive engineering, designing and building physical systems where tolerances are measured in millimetres and a wrong assumption means something breaks in the real world.
I moved into software, spending time working on cloud/infrastructure/devops/platform/etc and eventually became an Engineering Manager, where I build teams that build things.
Now I'm deeply interested in Physical AI: robots that have some kind of AI system to do their tasks instead of being programmed movement-by-movement. The SO-101 build is my self-education in public, my first real robot. A 3D printer, Aliexpress, and the question:
what does it take to give a machine a brain?