Spherico: rapid prototyping a spherical robot
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
While spherical robots are an interesting design that has been studied before, but due to their relative manufacturing complexity there are few such devices commercially available. Given the increased popularity of 3D printers and laser cutters, rapid prototyping has become an integral part of engineering practice. Leveraging these advances, we have developed Spherico. Spherico is an inexpensive spherical robot that utilizes both laser cutter and 3D printing technology combined with off-the-shelve (OTS) components. Driven by a Raspberry Pi, the ROS (Robotic Operating System) is used as the underlying software architecture for controlling the robot. Using all the off-the-shelve OTS components, rapid prototyping parts and ROS, Spherico takes less than 72Hrs to build. The resulting robot is an inexpensive and robust platform for research into spherical robot control.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it