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How can I leverage my experience with the JVM and Android to do some hobby-level building and controlling robots at home?

Have you taken a look at LeJOS? It's a port of the Java VM and SDK to the various Lego MINDSTORMS robot kits. The Lego kits themselves are quite capable as hobbyist robotics kits go, I bought the NXT ...
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How can I leverage my experience with the JVM and Android to do some hobby-level building and controlling robots at home?

Another alternative are robots based on the Raspberry Pi or Arduino microcontrollers. The Pi4J library implements convenient API's for accessing Raspberry Pi I/O's, while the JArduino distribution ...
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Drone or UAV Platform for deployment of Deep Learning / Reinforcement Learning

there seems to be no mature drone platform focused on the NN research personally I suggest using a drone combines a NUC, TX2 for example the drone works as a flying platform providing control APIs, ...
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