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Otherlab
Company blog · otherlab.com/blog-postsdesignhardware
Otherlab is the company blog at otherlab.com, writing about design and hardware. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Otherlab, a company building soft robots, exoskeletons, heat exchangers and compliant-structure simulation tools, often in hiring threads or as a pointer to Saul Griffith's work. The comments do not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Otherlab | SF Mission | Full-time | Software Engineer / Applied Math / Physics We're hiring a few people for a new project to build engineering and simulation tools for compliant structures. Otherlab ( https://otherlab.com/ ) has several projects building compliant robots, exoskeletons, heat exchangers, and other "soft" machines. Now we have the opportunity to build some software tools to help make these projects ev…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Leaving Wordpress for a Static Blog as a story · 15 points
HN discussionOtherlab | SF Mission | Full-time | Software Engineer | Applied Math | Physics We're hiring a few people for a new project to build engineering and simulation tools for compliant structures. Otherlab ( https://otherlab.com/ ) has several projects building compliant robots, exoskeletons, heat exchangers, and other "soft" machines. Now we have the opportunity to build some software tools to help make these projects ev…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Going Soft: Taking (un)design cues from nature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOtherlab | SF Mission | Full-time | Software Engineer / Applied Math / Physics We're hiring a few people for a new project to build engineering and simulation tools for compliant structures. Otherlab ( https://otherlab.com/ ) has several projects building compliant robots, exoskeletons, heat exchangers, and other "soft" machines. Now we have the opportunity to build some software tools to help make these projects ev…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)”Submitted Otherlab – Wouldn't it be coolif you could engineer a better world? [video] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should reach out to Otherlab. https://otherlab.com/
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on “Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?”Submitted Eulogy for Corwin Hardham as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Unfortunately the invention is causing a global climate crisis. This is straight up bonkers. Yes: humanity's energy consumption is likely the cause of climate change. But the energy consumed goes into a lot of outputs: shelter, transportation, entertainment, commerce. You could legitimately regard proof-of-work as an inefficiency whose cost keeps increasing. If proof-of-stake is sufficient, then it's remarkably in…
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on “Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)”Stuff that Saul Griffith works on: https://www.saulgriffith.com/ In particular, Otherlab companies: https://www.otherlab.com/
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on “Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?”Can anyone in robotics weigh in on whether new approaches like pneubotics / otherlab [0, 1] make Boston Dynamics' super heavy/noisy/expensive robots irrelevant or not? That's what Saul Griffith has been saying at least [2], I'd like to hear an impartial take on it [0] http://www.pneubotics.com/ [1] https://otherlab.com/projects [2] "[...] we're the only game in town." 21:00 onwards https://youtu.be/gyMowPAJwqo?t=1263
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on “Marine Corps Shelves Futuristic Robo-Mule Due to Noise Concerns”One thing I've heard Saul Griffith[1] talk about is instead of thinking traditionally about supply-side electricity as this paper does, think instead about an "internet of electricity" where all the distributed producers and consumers of electricity work together to balance a "smart grid". Household or community solar, utilities, even your car's (gigantic) battery would all work together to provide stability and res…
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on “California needs clean firm power, and so does the rest of the world [pdf]”He does, he's married to Tim O'Reilly's daughter and now runs an incubator that could be viewed as a grown up version of Zero Prestige https://otherlab.com/ I used to Kitesurf with these guys when they were still at MIT. Awesome bunch. [edit] apologies, I thought you were talking about the Zero Prestige founder and now realise you're talking about the parent's anecdote. As someone who builds his own kitesurf gear, e…
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on “ZeroPrestige”This is from Saul Griffith of Otherlab ( https://www.otherlab.com/ ) who has detailed his comprehensive plan to decarbonize the US economy in several different reports but most recently the Rewiring America handbook: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/handbook The bottom line is that by electrifying everything (transportation, HVAC, etc) at rates as fast as possible, we reduce total energy usage by 40-50% due to inhere…
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on “How to create 25M jobs by decarbonizing the economy”
