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  1. i didn't pursue robotics after uni in part because i didn't want to build weapons. be careful who you're arming. @EmilyGorcenski/798196927712018432
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      (seriously - at that point there were v few commercial autonomous robotics companies, and half the research money came from DARPA)
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        i remember a paper on procedurally generating gaits for alien races in the background of animated sci-fi movies that DARPA sponsored
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          and going - ah! so that the robot can figure out how to walk when it's leg gets shot off in combat. that's why this work exists. good.