General Robots

Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games

A gauntlet thrown

Sep 8 • 

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July 2025

Single-Use Disposable Applications

As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to find.

Jul 9 • 

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June 2025

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)

Jun 10 • 

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March 2025

Correct vs Good

Part 2: Can we have it both ways?

Mar 26 • 

Benjie Holson

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February 2025

Correct vs Good

What's the difference?

Feb 11 • 

Benjie Holson

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May 2024

Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs

Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2

May 21, 2024 • 

Benjie Holson

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What's With All the Humanoid Robots?

If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why…

May 7, 2024 • 

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March 2024

The Mythical Non-Roboticist

What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea…

Mar 14, 2024 • 

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July 2023

Writing Libraries for AIs to Use

Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third…

Jul 12, 2023 • 

Benjie Holson

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Bonus: Art Process

Talkin' 'bout doodles

Jul 11, 2023 • 

Benjie Holson

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Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots

A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!

Jul 10, 2023 • 

Benjie Holson

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June 2023

Dimension Hopper Part 1

2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation

Jun 12, 2023 • 

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