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Latest July 22, 2026 engineering

Batch-LIO: Batch Updates Make Point-LIO up to 4.7× Faster

Batch-LIO groups LiDAR points over roughly 1 ms and performs a joint update, reducing mean per-frame compute time by factors of 3.5× to 4.7× in the current sentinel Livox rosbag tests.

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June 10, 2026 opinion 10 min read

Pure CS Is Turning an Embodied-AI Control Problem into a Funding Story

A control-and-systems perspective on what gets lost when a pure-CS paradigm and the VLA narrative take the lead in embodied AI.

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Batch-LIO: Batch Updates Make Point-LIO up to 4.7× Faster

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Pure CS Is Turning an Embodied-AI Control Problem into a Funding Story