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Reactor Under the Hood at Code BEAM Europe 2025
The video of my Code BEAM Europe 2025 talk on Reactor's internals is out - plus reflections on the trip through Munich, Berlin, Prague, Budapest and Vienna with Jane.
Beam Bots Week Six: Balance Bots and Better State Machines
Teaming up with Protolux on a Nerves balance bot, command categories with concurrency limits arrive, mechanically-linked joints get their own sensor, and the docs get a proper structure.
Beam Bots Week Five: Tasks Get Orchestrated, Roadmaps Get Transparent
Reactor sagas arrive for task orchestration, the SO-101 hardware lands, Feetech servo support begins, and the proposals repo lets you see what's coming.
Beyond Behaviour Trees: Task Orchestration the Elixir Way
Why we chose Reactor sagas over behaviour trees for robot task orchestration, and what that means for resilience and safety.
Beam Bots Week Four: Robots Learn to Not Hit Themselves
Collision detection arrives, commands become interruptible GenServers, IK solvers reject self-collisions, and Livebook gets a Parameters widget.
