Building your favorite platforms | prev: founder @DeFi_Land @chosendotfun. senior expert @McKinsey
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Jun 12
I don’t understand why more robotics companies aren’t running visible public pilots in real world, customer-facing environments like hotels, retail stores, airports, parks and similar venues.
Yes, I know, full autonomy in these dynamic spaces is genuinely difficult. However, just teleoperate it. Teleoperation is already practical and removes that barrier. It lets companies put robots in front of actual people today demonstrating real capabilities, building brand recognition, generating excitement and collecting valuable feedback in the process.
Start simple: have a robot hand out ice creams on a sunny afternoon in the park. The amount of genuine love, engagement and virality it generates will be huge.
The companies that will lead in the next few years are the ones willing to show their robots in public now, rather than waiting for perfect autonomy. Get them out there, let people see what they can do and turn curiosity into genuine enthusiasm.
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Jun 11
Delusion used to be rare and that’s what made it powerful. It was the thing that let people build generational companies or execute trades everyone else thought were insane.
Now it’s the default. AI makes everyone think they’re a founder. Trading apps make everyone think they have an edge. Manifestation content makes everyone think reality bends to their vibes.
Being non-delusional is the new competitive advantage.
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Jun 10
An interesting observation from #ICRA2026 : the industry keeps getting caught hiding its teleoperators, while the two papers that each took two awards are both about human demonstration data.
The human in the loop isn't robotics embarrassing secret. It's the engine.
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Jun 10
If a startup is using "cutting-edge" or "groundbreaking" to describe their product, you can either short the company or bet on the founder going to jail.
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Jun 9
I’m all for startups. I’ve been advocating entrepreneurial path for majority of my life.
Also being delusional helps a lot there.
However, people thinking that building robotics companies is easy and they can compete with big players without huge funding and world-class academic and engineering talent is just absurd and way to inevitable failure.
Jun 9
One of the things I've observed time and time again, which makes me incredibly angry, is this SLAVE mentality reasoning: "If >big highly funded group< cant do it, what makes you think you can?"
I can. I will simply do it. Yes, I know better than them. Why do you give up?
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Jun 9
Standard bots is amazing. It's a great example of doing robotics in a right and useful way.
Been on my radar and top 3 underrated robotics companies list since last year.
Jun 9
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.
Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.
We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.
Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.
We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.
The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
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Jun 3
It’s been a few minutes that this robot has been trying to fold the shirt at #ICRA2026
To retail: Don’t be afraid of losing your jobs to humanoids anytime soon.
To robotics companies: There is only one magical element for improving your models and that’s something that we have. Feel free to reach out.
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If you are at ICRA and want to deploy robots and learn more about improving the models, feel free to DM.
Having a lot of fun so far.
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May 29
Okay, who pulled the plug on my teleoperation session?!😤
I was going sooo smooth, it felt unreal. Fortunately, everything is recorded and stored onchain.
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May 28
Reject modernity. Return to monke
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May 28
My feed is full of random accounts with no track record and fake fund, posting ai slop "founder advice" all day.
Not sure what's the deal, but I think the play is to look like investor long enough that founders start pitching them and they back into deal flow that way. Anyone?
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May 27
Absolute majority of early stage startups would be way better off staying small (<10 people) pre-series A.
Don't scale team until you absolutely have to.
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May 26
Spent entire weekend battling a calibration drift on one of our bottling cells that turned out to be a AC blowing on the camera mount.
The robot was fine. The pipeline was working. The mount moved 0.25mm per hour. Fixed <10 minutes.
Lesson - Never trust the HVAC vent!
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May 25
This feels weird. I'm having too much fun completing simple tasks in this warehouse simulation on @crowdbrainai.
Gamifying robotics is the future.
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May 25
Manipulation is unblocking faster than I thought 2 years ago. Locomotion plateaued imo a year ago and I dont see it un-plateauing this year. Bimanual long horizon is where the wins still are.
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May 25
I would be asking why every Solana mobile app is now also a wallet. Distribution is downstream of which app you open everyday.
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May 23
Ohh, I found a very interesting project on this colosseum app. Exciting times ahead @crowdbrainai
May 22
Was trying to research and review the latest Solana @colosseum frontier hackathon submissions. After checking 5 projects, it was too much of a hassle and I decided to change something.
So I built the Tiktok but for Colosseum submissions. Now I can:
- Swipe through demo videos effortlessly
- Check all links & descriptions instantly
- Search & filter by category, country, name
- Save favorites add notes
- Speed up, rewind, fullscreen and more.
Here I'm scrolling through submissions on my @solanamobile. This is the most fun I’ve had reviewing and exploring projects by far!
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May 22
Was trying to research and review the latest Solana @colosseum frontier hackathon submissions. After checking 5 projects, it was too much of a hassle and I decided to change something.
So I built the Tiktok but for Colosseum submissions. Now I can:
- Swipe through demo videos effortlessly
- Check all links & descriptions instantly
- Search & filter by category, country, name
- Save favorites add notes
- Speed up, rewind, fullscreen and more.
Here I'm scrolling through submissions on my @solanamobile. This is the most fun I’ve had reviewing and exploring projects by far!
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