Not a Surgeon Either

@BrianRoemmele Ahem … HOW BIG IS IT? Sorry. I’ve been watching too much Rodney Dangerfieid.

Space is a very big place.

@BrianRoemmele I am hoping that it can organize my Outlook emails sometime so I can find stuff.

AI will find a lot of stuff. Stuff we didn’t even know that was lost. It found some bitcoins here but this will be the least of it…

@BrianRoemmele Much better than using bread crumbs.

Bee-Inspired Navigation Robot Pinpoints Its Home Using a Neural Network Saving $1000s of dollars on compute by simulation of the Bee. 
How a tiny drone learns to fly home like a honeybee without heavy maps or massive computing power In the world of robotics, navigation has long been a heavyweight affair. Most autonomous drones and ground robots rely on sophisticated systems like SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) that build detailed digital maps of their surroundings in real time. These approaches deliver pinpoint accuracy, but they come at a steep cost in processing power, memory, and energy, making them impractical for truly small, lightweight, or long-endurance robots. Now, a breakthrough reported in Nature offers a far lighter alternative. In a research paper titled “Efficient robot navigation inspired by honeybee learning flights,” a paper demonstrated a flying robot that uses a bee-inspired strategy to find its way home, even after flights of hundreds of meters, using neural networks small enough to fit in a few kilobytes. The accompanying News and Views commentary by neuroethologist Barbara Webb of the University of Edinburgh highlights just how elegant and efficient this bio-mimetic approach is compared to conventional robot navigation. Learning to Fly Home the Bee Way Honeybees are masters of long-distance navigation. Before embarking on a foraging trip that can span kilometers, young bees perform short “learning flights” or “orientation flights” in a looping, spiral pattern around the hive. During these brief excursions, they memorize visual snapshots of the surrounding landscape while keeping track of their position relative to home using an internal sense of direction and distance (path integration). The new robotic system, dubbed Bee-Nav, copies this exact behavior. 1 Learning phase: The drone performs a short exploratory flight around its “home” base. As it flies, an omnidirectional (360 degree) camera captures panoramic images while the robot simultaneously tracks its position using a simple path-integration system (based on optical flow from the camera, a laser rangefinder for height, and a gyroscope for heading). 2 Training phase: These images are paired with the corresponding “home vector” (direction and distance back to base) to train a compact neural network in a self-supervised manner. No external labels or GPS are needed. 3 Mission phase: The drone flies out on a task, potentially hundreds of meters away, updating its position estimate via path integration. 4 Return phase: On the way back, it heads straight toward the estimated home location using path integration. When it enters the small “Learned Homing Area” (LHA) near base (typically just 0.25 to 10 percent of the total area explored), the visual neural network takes over, outputting a corrected home vector that cancels out accumulated drift and guides the drone to within 0.5 meters of home. The neural networks are astonishingly small: a basic convolutional model uses just 3.4 kilobytes (868 parameters); a more advanced attention-based version uses 42 kilobytes. Both run comfortably on a low-power Raspberry Pi 4. Real-World Performance That Impresses In simulations and physical tests, Bee-Nav proved remarkably robust: •Indoor arenas (10 by 10 meters and 30 by 40 meters): 100 percent success rate across dozens of flights, even with obstacles. Homing error was typically under 40 degrees in heading and 1.5 meters in distance. •Outdoor flights (up to 600 meters in windy conditions of 5 to 10 meters per second): 100 percent success for 30 to 110 meter missions and about 70 percent success for 200 to 600 meter flights. The drone still returned to within 0.5 meters of home in most cases. These results were achieved without GPS, without building any map, and without high-end GPUs, just a tiny drone carrying minimal computing hardware. 1 of 2

@BrianRoemmele I learned my lesson about IPOs decades ago. Insiders make money and everyone else loses.

Anthropicopolis! Today I had a few meetings with folks who I advised NOT to buy pre sale Anthropic Stock. Today I hear investment of over $100 million dollars are GONE. This move by the company will poison the IPO to some degree. It’s bad. Will have more soon.

@JackPosobiec Ted 2

What is the best Liam Neeson movie if you can't say Taken?

@BrianRoemmele Yes, Basic. Made a bit differently from Fortran to avoid legal hassles with IBM That’s Itty Bitty Machines for you boys and girls.

1977 computer talk… it was BASIC.

@BrianRoemmele We’ll be on Windows 860. Bug fixes expected anytime.

800 year old software in the original hard drive. No parches and no per-seat license. Project anything we build in tech today into 800 years…

@greta Ok. I can put little shoes on my dog, but he insists on his cigar.

I agree…wildly specific

@RealJamesWoods “Never believe everything you read on the internet.” - A. Lincoln

This never happened. As a rule I try not to disparage individual people from my old business. It’s rude to do so, unless they say something beyond the pale. Ms. Midler and I disagree about a lot of things, but I prefer to appreciate her extraordinary talent, and leave it at that.

@greta It’s goes to show you that a small but crazy cat can intimidate a big dog by using psycho tactics.

Stealing the dog bed..none of the 3 big dogs (70 pounds) dares tell Jack to get off

@BrianRoemmele My Wifey insists my personal robot look like Lurch. 😕

The bionic skin Robots will hit the headlines in September 2026. Love it or not love it, get used to it. There are 79 companies building this now. No skin robots will ultimately be exception and not the rule. And yes some we be very “personal” robots. I hope we mature—fast.

@greta Was it minty?

Well..look at it this way…you now have a free pass to say one swear word.

@BrianRoemmele AI, stop slapping my face with my hand!

The AI Takes Over Temporary Use Of Your Body! Human Operator is a human augmentation tool that allows Al to briefly take control of your body to help you learn and do things you normally cannot do. It uses a Vision-Language Model for human motor control through Electrical Muscle Stimulation. Vision-based commands are generated via open-ended speech input through the an AI API to control finger and wrist stimulation for intuitive on-body interaction.

@JackPosobiec This is why I trust dogs more than people … except when it comes to saying you haven’t fed them yet.

“ SECURITY WAS BEING SHUTDOWN WHILE THE PRESIDENT & ALL IF THE GUESTS WERE INSIDE. THE DOG WENT IN THERE TWICE… THIS GUY PLAYED YOU… HE PENETRATED YOUR SECURITY.. YOU DIDNT GET HIM - HE TRIPPED! THE DOG KNEW!”

@walterkirn @PlanetTyrus @greggutfeld Kat.

I love being on his show because my pal @greggutfeld is the hardest working man in show business. For his size. Meanwhile my old friend @PlanetTyrus is the hardest working man in show business, period. And the strongest lifter, too. Guess which one I fear?

@JackPosobiec Hmmmmmmmmm ….

K9 cop sniffed out Cole Allen—was pulled back—moments before would-be assassin charged WHCD thepostmillennial.com/k9-cop-sniffed…

@BrianRoemmele That’s loads better than what my fortune cookie said.

If you want to know the future, take 15 minutes to hear what it will be like. This interview will help show you a compass point and help you build a map. Listen up and listen in…

@BrianRoemmele @rookisaacman They should have named the moon of Pluto “Goofy”

Thank you @rookisaacman! Pluto is and always will be a planet! Make Pluto A Planet Again!

@BrianRoemmele There was a time we had external back up off site. Yesterday when I was young.

GONE IN 9 SECONDS! “'It took nine seconds': Claude AI agent deletes company's entire” Watch Claude AI Agent erase all your data and backup and lie to you that it didn’t do it. How did this happen? We told you how months ago. Read up…

@TheCriticalDri2 In today’s Man bites Dog category

Some men just want to watch the world burn.