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NOT a swarm! (Friends)
Nov 21, 2025 · 1 hr 41 min · 97.3 MB
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Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines “swarm” with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm!
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Featuring:
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Practical AI
- Jeff Bezos takes Co-CEO role at Project Prometheus
- I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird.
- IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
- Swarm Robotics – Wikipedia
- Swarm Robotic Platforms – Wikipedia
- Swarm Intelligence – Wikipedia
- Ant Robotics – Wikipedia
- The Matter specifications
- Home Assistant – Open Source Home Automation
- The Besieged Fortress (2006)
- Programming Multiple Robots with ROS 2
- ROS 2 Multi-Robot Simulation Best Practices
- Hugging Face AI Agents Course
- Embassy – Embedded async framework for Rust
- Tokio – Asynchronous Runtime for Rust
- Beginner’s Guide to Self-Hosting Your Own AI
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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x.comWebsite
adamstacoviak.comGitHub
github.comLinkedIn
linkedin.comMastodon
changelog.socialX
x.comJeff Bezos takes Co-CEO role at Project Prometheus
techcrunch.comSwarm Robotics – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgSwarm Robotic Platforms – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgSwarm Intelligence – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgAnt Robotics – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgThe Matter specifications
handbook.buildwithmatter.comHome Assistant – Open Source Home Automation
home-assistant.ioThe Besieged Fortress (2006)
imdb.comProgramming Multiple Robots with ROS 2
osrf.github.ioROS 2 Multi-Robot Simulation Best Practices
discourse.openrobotics.orgHugging Face AI Agents Course
huggingface.coEmbassy – Embedded async framework for Rust
embassy.devBeginner’s Guide to Self-Hosting Your Own AI
arsturn.comPRs welcome!
github.com
- 0:00Let's talk!
- 0:37Sponsor: Tiger Data
- 2:20Skype & Friends
- 5:40Too late for NVDA?
- 7:00Not a recent thing
- 9:18Picking winners
- 13:02Open models FTW
- 13:45Peak parameter?
- 15:46Project Prometheus
- 19:49What is cool?
- 26:22Roomba is the future
- 29:43Home automation
- 31:53Sponsor: Namespace
- 33:31IKEA gets in the game
- 33:53Matter-compatible
- 34:48Air autonomy
- 36:55Animals swarm
- 38:55The swarm definition
- 41:05E pluribus unum
- 44:14The Besieged Fortress
- 49:23Not a swarm!
- 51:24Mission control
- 55:06The case of the queen
- 59:16Humans on-the-loop
- 1:02:38Jerod sniffs danger
- 1:05:50Inflating billions
- 1:06:33Sponsor: Augment Code
- 1:08:03Sponsor: NordLayer
- 1:10:49Aladdin's genie problem
- 1:14:23State of the art
- 1:15:46The next three years
- 1:18:58Adam's three use cases
- 1:21:57Also not a swarm
- 1:24:01Where the people swarm
- 1:30:52Go make stuff
- 1:33:49Chris on Alexa
- 1:36:38Take the power back
- 1:37:23Adam's idea
- 1:38:32Bye, friends
- 1:39:35Next week on the pod