Robotics
What does Wisconsin Robotics primarily build?
A Mars Rover
How many movies are in the Star Wars main saga?
9
What is Mars also known as?
The Red Planet
How do you craft a saddle in Minecraft?
Using three pieces of leather and one iron ingot
Where does the meme Big Chungus come from?
Looney Tunes
What does ROS stand for?
Robot Operating System
Who played The Terminator?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
How long is a martian day?
24 hours and 39 minutes
What is the goal of the DoomSlayer from DOOM?
Kill all demons/avenge his pet rabbit
Who played Arnold Swarzenegger?
Calum Von Moger (in the 2018 film Bigger)
What is the best kind of robot?
One that works
In Andy Weir's The Martian, Mark Watney produces water on Mars by reacting hydrogen with oxygen. How does he extract the hydrogen gas needed for this chemical reaction?
Decomposing Hydrazine extracted from the MAV fuel tanks over an iridium catalyst
Name the 5 rovers that NASA sent to mars
Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance
Who is this pokemon?
Trevenant
What is the only number whose letters are in reverse alphabetical order?
One
What language does the word "robot" come from?
Czech - Robota (forced labor)
Who wrote the sci-fi series The Three Body Problem?
Liu Cixin
What is the slope of Olympus Mons in degrees?
1~5 degrees
What is the new game that Valve is developing that's in closed beta?
Deadlock
How many minutes is a martian day?
1479
Explain Kalman Filters
Kalman filtering (also known as linear quadratic estimation) is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, including statistical noise and other inaccuracies, to produce estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than those based on a single measurement, by estimating a joint probability distribution over the variables for each time-step.
Which sci-fi novel opens with the line: "in the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move"?
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Which country succeeded in putting a satellite in mars orbit on the country's first attempt?
India
In Team Fortress 2, how did the medic lose his medical license?
After he removed a patient's entire skeleton
A humanoid robot is trained to walk using Reinforcement Learning.
Basically, if you were the robot, you would choose a joint action (a_t) based on your current state (s_t). After executing the action, you would receive a reward (r_t): for example, r_t > 0 for maintaining balance and moving forward, and r_t < 0 for falling. Through repeated trials, you would learn a policy (π(a|s)) that maximizes the expected cumulative reward:
G_t = Σ(k=0 to ∞) γ^k r_(t+k).
This is a very complex process and usually takes a long time. But the very next day, you are able to walk perfectly. How?
Because you are a human