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Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS 2022)

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Last Friday, I attended the Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS 2022) in the International House at Berkeley. BARS is a local symposium that brings together faculty and students from Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz and other local universities along with attendees from local companies. Autodesk was a sponsor this year. BARS alternates every year between Stanford and Berkeley - BARS at Stanford last year was the first time I'd gone to an in-person event since the pandemic.  BARS 2022 was a blast! It was one of the most enjoyable conferences I've been to in a while. The talks and posters at the conference tend to be cutting-edge work that's fresh off the press or even under review. This year's conference had a rapid-fire cadence to it with strict time limits on how long each person could speak (even for the faculty!). The result - we got to see a fantastic overview of the incredible research being done in the Bay Area academic robotics community.  I'll start with the
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1 year at Autodesk

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It's been more than a year since I joined Autodesk. I haven't posted much online in a while but thought it would be worthwhile starting to write again. My website has moved to www.sachinchitta.com . I'm still transferring over some of my older blog content here. Yesterday, I got to see the Autodesk Gallery in the One Market building in San Francisco. The Gallery showcases some of the most innovative things built using Autodesk software.The exhibits range from a rocket engine, a hydrogen powered drone to robots (of course)! It's a beautiful space that highlights the use of software tools built by Autodesk to develop state of the art technology that touches the world. This is something I love about working at Autodesk - our products shape the physical world around us. As a mechanical engineer who first started doing design using AutoCAD (in the 90s!), I love knowing that our work shapes atoms as much as bits! There's been an explosion of interest and innovation in Rob
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