Field Notes
Notes from building and operating robots in the real world.
Essays and talks on cloud robotics, sim-to-real, fleet operations, security, and what actually breaks between demo, pilot, and production.
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Essay
Security by Design: End-to-End Encryption and Identity for Robotics Systems
Why perimeter/VPN security fails for robot fleets, and how to do end-to-end encryption and identity instead: provisioning tokens, per-call JWT identity, mutual TLS with Istio, and gRPC encryption on the LAN.
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Paper
Realistic Synthetic Household Data Generation at Scale
Co-authored research on generating realistic synthetic household data at scale: training and evaluation data for embodied-AI and robotics simulation.
Talk
RoboBusiness 2019, on automating robot data collection to drive operational and business insight, an early look at the fleet-operations and observability themes I still work on today.