Changelog & Friends

NOT a swarm!


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Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines “swarm” with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm!

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  • Featuring:

    • Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
    • Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • Practical AI
    • Jeff Bezos takes Co-CEO role at Project Prometheus
    • I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird.
    • IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
    • Swarm Robotics – Wikipedia
    • Swarm Robotic Platforms – Wikipedia
    • Swarm Intelligence – Wikipedia
    • Ant Robotics – Wikipedia
    • The Matter specifications
    • Home Assistant – Open Source Home Automation
    • The Besieged Fortress (2006)
    • Programming Multiple Robots with ROS 2
    • ROS 2 Multi-Robot Simulation Best Practices
    • Hugging Face AI Agents Course
    • Embassy – Embedded async framework for Rust
    • Tokio – Asynchronous Runtime for Rust
    • Beginner’s Guide to Self-Hosting Your Own AI
    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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