robotics – Tarik Billa

What to study to get into robotics? [closed]

December 19, 2023 by Tarik

I’m a professional robotics research consultant, with 30 years of experience working for organizations like SRI International and JPL. Like computers, robotics has quite a strong divide between the software and the hardware. Hardware is further subdivided into actuators and sensors. If you’d said “I want to get into computers”, I would explain that only … Read more

Textual versus Graphical Programming Languages [closed]

September 16, 2023 by Tarik

Before I arrived, our group (PhD scientists, with little programming background) had been trying to implement a LabVIEW application on-and-off for nearly a year. The code was untidy, too complex (front and back-end) and most importantly, did not work. I am a keen programmer but had never used LabVIEW. With a little help from a … Read more