Humanoid robotics
Adventures with Johnny — robotics talk
Sharing the build-test-fail-repeat journey of turning a low-cost humanoid into a useful manipulation platform.
Recent
2023–2026
Rough ordering for now. Dates/captions can be tightened later.
Home robotics
Johnny at home
The long-running goal: useful robots doing real things in normal homes.
Sim2real
SO-101 real / sim alignment tooling
Interactive real-vs-simulation overlays and silhouette IoU for geometry/calibration debugging.
Calibration
Tip alignment diagnostics
Real, simulated and blended views with masks, tip errors and absolute difference visualization.
Robot learning
Johnny project timeline
From PyBullet and behavior trees through ACT imitation learning, manipulation and mobile-platform experiments.
Learning / simulation
Mesh-core rollout
A tiny captured rollout from the recent experimentation stack.
Navigation
Robot vacuum hacking
Messing with mobile-robot navigation, maps and cheap platforms long before buying the perfect home robot.
CAD
Pan/tilt camera mechanism
Onshape design work for a custom webcam pan/tilt mechanism.
3D printing
Small physical builds
Learning CAD by continuously designing and printing useful little objects.
SLAM / perception
Johnny mapping experiments
Point clouds, fiducials and visual localization experiments around a humanoid/mobile robotics stack.
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Adventures with Johnny playlist
The playlist updates here automatically as new Johnny videos are published.
