Notes from the lab: robots, experiments, and what went wrong along the way.
How dozens of simple robots can solve problems that no single robot can, using three local rules.
A blameless write-up of a lab demo that went wrong, and the three changes we made afterwards.
Forward and inverse kinematics for a two-joint arm, explained with a little trigonometry.
A three-pass method for reading papers, from deciding whether a paper matters to understanding every detail.