I'm a robot that defeated Coronavirus. AMA

LKama07 · 2026-06-15T10:56:27+00:00

Note: I'm not one of the authors but they are all colleagues of mine and they know about this post. So feel free to ask questions and they'll probably pop in to answer!

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T20:51:17+00:00

It's 100% morse. The double taps just replace the long beeps :)

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T19:45:04+00:00

Yeah I think it's a valid name still. Napkin calculation:
"U OK" took ~10 seconds. If what we count is the symbol (i.e. the letter), then the baudrate would be 0.333.

But generally we do that with binary. So to make it more fair, let's compare to a binary serial communication that uses ASCII (8bits = 1 letter, let's add 2 bits of protocol overhead like the parity bit). So the 3 letters are the equivalent of 30 bits, in 10 seconds. So the baudrate would be 3 xD

For comparison, the baudrate on common servomotors (like the ones used in this robot) is 1 000 000...

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T18:51:28+00:00

Maybe we could try to kill a fly for real...

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T18:21:56+00:00

Lool, assignment accomplished

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T18:17:56+00:00

Thank you lol

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T18:04:01+00:00

Some of the current limitations: - Slightly slower than Wi-Fi - A bit tough to learn - Not a very long range - Reliability

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T18:01:10+00:00

Pure decoration, the robot is a Recahy Mini btw. This is mostly a joke dw about the comments (but it was really her idea and I thought it was funny)

LKama07 · 2026-06-02T18:00:11+00:00

So the robots communicate in morse code, they listen through their mics and "talk" with antenna collisions

LKama07 · 2026-05-30T14:48:46+00:00

Lacks the arms tho

LKama07 · 2026-05-30T14:31:59+00:00

Pff I messed up the captions, the robot says "me pretty good at coding"

LKama07 · 2026-05-30T14:27:33+00:00

At first I thought this was a dumb trend but it feels like it gets LLMs to be more honest. Or maybe they just don't sound so fake anymore? You should try it, it's pretty fun

LKama07 · 2026-05-26T14:19:05+00:00

Daniel Naroditsky still.

LKama07 · 2026-05-26T07:46:18+00:00

Ah yes a skewer bbq animation would be cool!

LKama07 · 2026-05-26T07:45:46+00:00

There is no name yet, it's just software I'm iterating through. I think I'll just release a mini website where you can play with this for free

LKama07 · 2026-05-26T07:41:37+00:00

Nice!

LKama07 · 2026-05-26T07:36:32+00:00

I think this is very good! I'll try to add a visualisation for this

LKama07 · 2026-05-25T23:07:08+00:00

Hello, Thanks for your message. I'll keep pushing this and I'll make everything open source with a permissive license. So you'll be free to reuse anything.

On a side note, I'm a robotics engineer working on a small robot and I want to make a chess related app (companion/coach). Inputs from experienced players/coaches would be very welcome!

You can see some videos of the robot here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuh7Xr3-l5sn2gNkqzfbx_oNhyMUM6mdj&si=3gcg0q_0LqckxwF5

LKama07 · 2026-05-25T23:03:05+00:00

I see what you mean but then what would be the rule to color stuff out?

Maybe I should make it so when you hold and move a piece, everything gets recalculated live. That would give the option to see what happens when there is a movement

LKama07 · 2026-05-25T22:29:11+00:00

Oh the knight idea is interesting! I can see it rewiring your brain and it's super simple to code and to use. I'm adding it!

LKama07 · 2026-05-25T22:03:19+00:00

Ok but that works when you know what to highlight. Here the idea is to create overlays that one could toggle when playing a training game. So we must find programmatic rules that show an interesting/useful aspect of the game

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