2 min read 0 Uncategorized Paper Notes: Teaching Novices to Think like Cobot Experts Curt February 17, 2026 Collaborative robots are showing up in more and more manufacturing facilities, but there’s a persistent gap between what cobots can…
2 min read 0 Uncategorized Paper Notes: Converting Manual Work into Human-Robot Teamwork Curt February 17, 2026 Collaborative robots in manufacturing have a straightforward promise: pair a human with a robot, let each do what they’re best…
2 min read 0 Uncategorized Paper Notes: Helping Operators Keep Up with Collaborative Robots Curt February 17, 2026 Collaborative robots in manufacturing sound great on paper: a human and a robot sharing a workspace, each doing what they…
2 min read 0 Uncategorized The Thing About Teaching a GAN to Draw Curt February 17, 2026 Back in Fall 2018, I took CS 534 (Computational Photography) at UW-Madison. The term project was open-ended, so naturally my…
8 min read 0 Uncategorized The Thing About Teaching a Robot to Find Blocks Curt February 17, 2026 When you’re working on human-robot interaction research, there’s a surprisingly mundane problem that keeps showing up: the robot needs to…
8 min read 0 Uncategorized The Thing About Real-Time Inverse Kinematics on a UR3e Curt February 17, 2026 During my Master’s in Computer Science at UW-Madison, I spent most of my time in the People and Robots Lab…
7 min read 0 Uncategorized The Thing About Turning Robot Motion into Fluid Art Curt February 17, 2026 I found a 2D WebGL fluid simulation on GitHub’s trending page one Friday afternoon and immediately lost about twenty minutes…
7 min read 0 Uncategorized The Thing About an IR LED Strip and it’s REST API Curt February 17, 2026 When I set up the LED strip around my living room window, I thought the little IR remote it came…
5 min read 0 Uncategorized The thing about PatchFusion – Monocular Depth Estimation Curt May 17, 2025 Just wanted to post a quick update on a subsystem for Bubbles the robot dog. I have been working on-and-off…
1 min read 0 Random UW Madison Grad School Projects The Thing About a COVID-19 Laptop Server “Rack” Curt April 7, 2025 Not actually a server rack but three laptops on a bookcase. This was a small project right at the start…