@ricksva@hci.social @ricksva@dair-community.social more about my journey here.
I never actually had anything to do with the hardware at my first robotics placement.
The next one was just theoretical work. But we went to visit the Oxford uni lab, and their slow-crawling robot trolley nearly trapped me against the wall and the professor had to jump in and hit the red button.
But... "Those big R1 schools" you mention??
"Two years ago I couldn't spell engineer; now I R 1"
Anything to do with that?!
There was an expert system called R1 for no reason other than for that joke!