Sebastian discusses the career path that led him to work on the Stretch robot at Boston Dynamics, and highlights the differences between this job and his previous roles.
Author Archives: Sebastian Castro
2021 in Review, Part 1: Research Projects at MIT CSAIL
Sebastian discusses 3 of his major collaborative projects at MIT CSAIL, which focus on learning and planning under uncertainty.
Introduction to Behavior Trees
This post introduces behavior trees for designing and managing the execution of complex behaviors in autonomous systems. This includes robotics examples, software library recommendations, and comparisons to finite-state machines.
A Guide to Docker and ROS
Learn best practices for using Docker in container-based development in robotics workflows including the Robot Operating System (ROS).
2020 in Review: Home Service Robotics at MIT CSAIL
Learn about Sebastian’s major project of 2020 at MIT CSAIL. This consists of a task and motion planning framework for a mobile manipulation platform for home service robotics.
Object Detection and Instance Segmentation with Detectron2
Learn how to use the Detectron2 library to train object detection and instance segmentation models on your own dataset.