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Things I'm reading, building, and getting stuck on across robotics, control, and learning, written up while they're still fresh. Where a picture beats a paragraph, the picture is interactive.

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Interactive Control Theory Contact-Implicit MPC

C3: Consensus Complementarity Control

A robot balances and slides a tray with no grasp at all, pure contact. Why the underlying optimization hides 2140 mode combinations, and the ADMM split that turns them into five small problems solved in parallel.

2026-07-21 12 min Live ADMM demo
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Drafting

Three ways to solve the same hard problem

Branch & bound versus ADMM on one toy problem, side by side. Where the work actually goes, and why anytime beats optimal when the deadline is hard.

Coming soon