I'm Rob Burke. Professionally, I build teams where people and AI agents work side by side. I also build AI characters and practical tools, with side quests including computer vision, photography, cycling, projects with (and for) the kids, and bringing old technology back to life.
My work on synthetic characters goes back more than 25 years to the MIT Media Lab, where I studied how to give a virtual creature a sense of time. These days I'm building with AI partners, working out what they can take on and where human judgment belongs.
A few places to start:
- recipes: portable practices and starter prompts you can hand to your own AI, including what worked for our family's trip to Japan.
- throw-trails: track thrown objects and combine separate launches into stills or videos, drawing only what the camera saw.
- GaltonGoalieViz: real-time computer vision for a Galton board, from an afternoon with a CrunchLabs kit.
- Garmin Edge 1000, modern graphs: large, readable power, cadence, heart-rate and speed graphs for the Garmin Edge 1000.
The stories, experiments and photographs live at robburke.net. My professional background is on LinkedIn.