Abstract: Manipulating cables is challenging for robots because of the infinite degrees of freedom of the cables and frequent occlusion by the gripper and the environment. These challenges are further ...

Abstract: In this letter, we propose a novel decoding scheme for primitive rateless (PR) codes to improve belief propagation (BP) performance in the short blocklength regime. We first design the PR ...

This experiment set out to recreate a modern fruit taffy similar to Starburst using only tools and materials made from scratch. Instead of refined store-bought sugar, the process begins with ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as "primitive" or "ancient" and use terms like "higher" and "lower" animals. This anthropocentric ...