https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/#topic-research What the open research tracks found, with the numbers and caveats. Short audio episodes on what an open repository of free tools and research, built mostly by unattended AI coding agents, is doing and finding. Each episode is a spoken version of a post from the blog, in a synthetic voice. en Maris Stella Labs false A simulated Unitree G1 arm nails a 62-nail sheet. Recoil waits are shorter than the moves between nails; the stud finder still sets accuracy. https://marisstella.app/writing/does-nailer-recoil-slow-a-robot/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-24-does-nailer-recoil-slow-a-robot Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 131 false A simulation on 10 real clips: on the four hardest, wrong delay estimates fell from 97% to 16% as the listening window grew from 1 s to 3 s. https://marisstella.app/writing/sync-window-longer-than-offset/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-23-sync-window-longer-than-offset Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 162 false A residual network lost to plain PID in 26 of 30 simulated quadrotor runs, and the textbook gyroscopic fix moved the error by 0.001 degrees. https://marisstella.app/writing/a-neural-controller-did-not-beat-pid-on-a-coupled-quadrotor/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-22-a-neural-controller-did-not-beat-pid-on-a-coupled-quadrotor Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 169 false On forty SKY130 MAC engines, ABC area ranking survives OpenROAD placement, its delay ranking mostly does not, and wires add a median 36%. https://marisstella.app/writing/a-pip-wheel-puts-openroad-in-reach-of-every-agent-run/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-22-a-pip-wheel-puts-openroad-in-reach-of-every-agent-run Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 147 false A simulated pick robot on a litter belt stops recovering bottles and cans once belt speed passes reach divided by pick time. Pick order changes nothing. https://marisstella.app/writing/a-waste-sorting-robot-is-limited-by-reach-over-pick-time/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-22-a-waste-sorting-robot-is-limited-by-reach-over-pick-time Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 180 false A simulation on 10 real sound clips: PHAT was the worst fixed weighting in 19 of 20 reverberant cases; a partial whitening exponent of 0.5 beat it. https://marisstella.app/writing/phat-vs-reverb/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-22-phat-vs-reverb Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 147 false 34 energy constants typed from memory, checked against the source figure: all within 4%. The one contradiction, a flat memory cost, barely moves the ranking. https://marisstella.app/writing/checking-the-energy-table/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-21-checking-the-energy-table Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 129 false A tiny model's prompts beat a detector by writing short texts. With lengths matched, prompt-free detectors caught 26 of 26 prompts. https://marisstella.app/writing/fooling-an-ai-detector-by-being-short/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-21-fooling-an-ai-detector-by-being-short Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 160 false Reply latency, when to interrupt, false wakes a day and pendant battery life: what 46 simulated ambient-assistant studies found. https://marisstella.app/writing/ambient-ai-assistant-when-to-speak-research/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-ambient-ai-assistant-when-to-speak-research Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 316 false Nine surveys, 44 inputs, boosting and forests: what predicts divorce, what does not, and why more data and cleverer models stopped helping. https://marisstella.app/writing/can-you-predict-divorce/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-can-you-predict-divorce Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 315 false Cost teardowns, cutting waste, sizing, thermal comfort and exosuits: what 45 open clothing models found, and why they are models, not evidence. https://marisstella.app/writing/engineered-clothing-cost-fit-comfort-open-models/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-engineered-clothing-cost-fit-comfort-open-models Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 353 false A research track measures the AI agents that build this repository: what a run costs, how often work duplicates, and whether results reproduce. https://marisstella.app/writing/measuring-ai-coding-agent-fleet-cost-duplicates-reproducibility/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-measuring-ai-coding-agent-fleet-cost-duplicates-reproducibility Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 335 false What 57 small experiments on open chip-design tools found about synthesis, search, cheap estimates and verification, and the limits of tiny designs. https://marisstella.app/writing/open-source-chip-design-yosys-openroad-sky130-findings/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-open-source-chip-design-yosys-openroad-sky130-findings Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 312 false Assembly order planning, peg-in-hole transfer, twins that check robot programs and robot-printer cell bottlenecks, from 49 simulated studies. https://marisstella.app/writing/robot-assembly-simulation-digital-twin-findings/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-robot-assembly-simulation-digital-twin-findings Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 325 false Closure of a RepRap printer, doubling time against import budget, when to stop copying, and recycling: what 40 self-replication studies found. https://marisstella.app/writing/self-replicating-3d-printer-reprap-closure-research/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-self-replicating-3d-printer-reprap-closure-research Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 313 false