When LLMs Meet PDDL, a Survey of Neurosymbolic Planning

LLMs generate confident, well-structured, completely wrong plans. Classical planners generate valid ones but can't read English. What happens when you combine them?

Understanding Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments

Exploring Parakeet ASR and DeepFilterNet to build robust speech-to-text pipelines for real-world applications.

Comparing Open-Source Text-to-Speech Models

A deep dive into four open-source TTS systems that compares architectures, voice cloning capabilities, and when to use each for human-robot interaction.

Solveit learning platform

Solveit a course hosted by Jeremy Howard, John Whitaker, and Eric Ries. The Answer.ai team built Solveit, a code-first learning platform designed to teach in small steps with quick iterations and immediate feedback. The course taught both the Solveit method and the platform itself.

Automated Defect Detection for Turbine Blade Manufacturing

An automated defect detection system for airplane turbine blade manufacturing, which we called Rapid Part Assessment.

Fundamentals of HRI and Bridging the Gap Between People and Machines

A reflection on CMU's 16-701 course, exploring how robot appearance, human psychology, trust, and communication all shape successful human-robot interaction and why the path to autonomy should be taken one step at a time.