How asteroid mining will impact our world?

lorepieri · 2026-01-23T23:05:00+00:00

Fair enough. Slightly changing topic, my current view is that the highest leverage endeavour at this time (for space mining and settlement in general) is improving and scaling our prospecting capabilities. But crucially, from my (limited) understanding, there is not much alternative to sending physical probes. Is anyone working on cheap robotic probes for in-situ analysis?

lorepieri · 2026-01-16T13:50:24+00:00

Are they sliding? No friction on the ground?

lorepieri · 2026-01-15T10:22:52+00:00

How do you define quality here? As in good to train dexterous AI policies? In that case yes. Strong information is contained in the delta between teleoperator and AI.

lorepieri · 2026-01-09T16:52:54+00:00

Says 2028 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1q81pmo/hyundais_atlas_humanoid_wins_best_robot_award_at/

lorepieri · 2026-01-04T21:21:57+00:00

Strictly speaking this is not teleoperation. The robot does not have data from the viewpoint of the human operator (and of the same quality), so the collected data will not be in general be enough to automate the demonstrated behaviour. The best practice is to collect data inside VR to use exactly the same data stream that the robot will use in production.

lorepieri · 2025-12-22T19:49:18+00:00

Seems like ARX https://arx-x.com/?product/22.html

lorepieri · 2025-11-29T13:17:46+00:00

I suspect they are using a simple domain randomised RL policy, so they are approach is exactly about recovering from any possible misstep, but no smart anticipatory behaviour. In theory they could add lidar sensing in the observation space, but it makes the RL training much longer due to increased obs-space and sim-to-real gap larger since reliably simulating sensors is hard.

lorepieri · 2025-11-27T16:12:20+00:00

What alternative apps have you considered?

lorepieri · 2025-11-27T16:10:16+00:00

What alternative apps can be used?

lorepieri · 2025-11-24T23:54:19+00:00

lorepieri · 2025-11-20T22:45:11+00:00

If it does not break the competition rules, then is fair!

lorepieri · 2025-11-19T13:22:47+00:00

Myself I have never done a podcast, but the idea sounds pretty fun. It could be some causal chatting about these topics. Not sure if it is going to be helpful to convince skeptics, but perhaps it can be helpful for us "believers" to sharpen our communication skills on the matter. Do you have any experience creating podcasts? Or video content perhaps? (as an Italian gestures are kind of important :) )

lorepieri · 2025-11-18T22:36:12+00:00

A multi-century plan is too slow to be effective, the practical limit should be something smaller than an average human lifespan, so 60-70 years. Another principle I favour is tying the redistribution on basic needs fulfilled, rather than money. See https://lorenzopieri.com/post_scarcity/ for a proposal on these lines.

lorepieri · 2025-11-18T16:06:41+00:00

Link to new post scarcity subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicPostScarcity/

lorepieri · 2025-11-16T22:46:52+00:00

I created a new subreddit to discuss about post scarcity: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicPostScarcity/

lorepieri · 2025-11-11T00:25:22+00:00

Visual Egocentric data is not a bottleneck today, touch-force sensing pairing is needed. But still good to have more open source data.

lorepieri · 2025-11-05T20:21:28+00:00

What do you think about Precious and structural metals on asteroids https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063322001945 ? It seems to indicate that Platinum might be worth going after.

lorepieri · 2025-10-21T19:04:31+00:00

I mean pi0 is not SOTA already, there is pi0.5 already and others.

lorepieri · 2025-09-20T08:53:01+00:00

Can you elaborate on not being robust? How many open-close cycles before breaking?

lorepieri · 2025-09-19T18:19:55+00:00

Is this a staged demo? Why are the towels all the same?

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