Aron Frishberg

Gatsby Robotics, humanoid robot cleaning demonstration

A Gatsby demo in San Francisco. The robot arrives at your door, cleans your apartment, and leaves.

The Lead · Currently

I Dropped Out to Teach a Robot to Clean Your Apartment.

Gatsby Robotics sends humanoid robots to clean homes in San Francisco. We're backed by NVIDIA Inception and Entrepreneurs First, and we're just getting started.

By Aron Frishberg · San Francisco

Earlier this year, I left the University of Chicago to start a robotics company. The company is called Gatsby, and we send humanoid robots to clean apartments in San Francisco. You open the app, pick a time, a robot shows up at your door, cleans your apartment, and leaves.

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Nobel laureates tallied against their academic affiliations. Scraped from Wikipedia, totaled by a Python script.

Data · Research

The Universities with the Most Nobel Prizes

By Aron Frishberg

Heading off to the University of Chicago, I kept hearing that UChicago had a crazy amount of Nobel Prizes. As an amateur data scientist, I decided I needed to put this to the test.

Using Python, I coded a program that scraped a list of all Nobel Prize winners from Wikipedia, and then scrape each laureate's wikipedia page to find their academic affiliations (including alma matters and institutions where they've worked). I then created this page, which allows for analysis of the data. This includes filters to allow for specific prize categories, specific time periods and restricting the type of academic affiliation.

Chess‑Analytica, an open-source Python library published on GitHub.

Chess · Open Source

Chess-Analytica: A Library of One's Own

By Aron Frishberg

This idea began a while ago when I coded a project I called "Not Stockfish". Stockfish is currently the best chess engine in the world, and plays essentially flawlessly. On the other hand, I'm barely breaking 900 elo on chess.com, so I thought it would be interesting to create an engine that ran off of my moves.

Over the course of the next week or so, I ended up doing just that. It involved interfacing with the chess.com API, and a bunch of work.

I've always wanted to create an open source library of my own and so a few months later, I had the idea of creating a Python library that made chess analytics way easier (by making both scraping and analysis simpler). That is the story of how chess-analytica began.