Wow. We’re done with the paper. And what a team effort! So many people came together on this one – research, infra, operations, human-robot interaction folks, the whole nine yards. It’s amazing to me how interdisciplinary robotics is becoming. A few years ago 7 authors on a paper was unusual. But out of the last 5 papers I helped submit, the two shortest papers had 8 authors, and all the others were 15 or more.
And it’s not citation inflation. True, this most recent paper had a smaller set of authors actively working on the draft, collating contributions from a larger group running the experiments … but the previous paper had more than 25 authors, all of whom materially contributed content directly to the draft.
What a wonderful time to be alive.
And to recover from food poisoning.
-the Centaur
Pictured: this afternoon’s draft of the paper, just prior to a video conference to hammer out some details.
