Epistemic humility enjoyer
Joined January 2016
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May 22
Agreed
2026 twitter: "i am leaving this place, as it has become quite sickly. follow me for daily updates as my departure progresses"
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May 12
I have an immense wish to build something like this and it is making me inexplicably sad to know that America is not the place to do so
May 12
Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 đź‘Ź
The world's first production-ready manned mecha. It can transform. It's a civilian vehicle. It weighs ~500kg with you inside.
Please everyone be sure to use the robot in a Friendly and Safe manner.
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Apr 29
Seemingly every robotics professor right now:
> I should start a startup based on something one of my PhD students did
> But I'll make it more vague sounding
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BTW this isn't a sub tweet of anyone in particular, just a general observation
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Apr 29
The logic is sound - it worked for Physical Intelligence, after all
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Apr 19
The contrast is striking.
Tesla is inviting people to watch Optimus cheer from the sidelines at the Boston Marathon.
Meanwhile, 300 humanoids from 26 Chinese OEMs actually participated in the Beijing Half Marathon. Multiple robots finished faster than the human winner, 40% navigated autonomously.
Apr 18
Just got this email. @Tesla’s Optimus robot is coming to Boston.
“Join us from April 19 to 20, 2026, at Tesla Boston Boylston Street showroom to meet Optimus, our humanoid robot, for Marathon Monday. Optimus will be cheering with you on the sidelines and posing for photos.”
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Apr 16
I mean, I know this is just some astroturfing thing and I should just ignore it. But seriously, don't fall for it anon, you're gonna get rugged.
The day Alibaba or Minimax or whoever open-sources their video action model, Pi will fade into obscurity and everyone will collectively remember that startups are supposed to try and make money. I would be shocked if Alibaba doesn't already have a Tesla / xAI-level real-time video model release planned for the next 12 months.
I have multiple friends at Pi, they're super smart and hard-working. And they've done great with their secondaries. I still cannot fathom how someone can look at this situation and not see the glaring sectoral risk. You're taking business and machine learning advice from the geniuses behind Everyday Robots.
Advice for anyone trying to invest in robotics: just buy Unitree on Hiive, it's still a huge discount and it's an objectively great business. Write-up on Unitree's IPO filing: therobotreport.com/unitree-i…
Key details:
- 60% (!) gross margins
- 300% YoY growth, $250m in revenue
- Humanoids at > 50% of core revenue
Apr 16
Physical Intelligence (@physical_int) is building a foundation model that can control any robot to do any task — what the team describes as the GPT moment for robotics. The company's cross-embodiment approach trains across many different robot platforms, and recent results show tasks being performed zero-shot that last year required hundreds of hours of data collection.
In this episode of the @LightconePod , co-founder Quan Vuong (@QuanVng) sat down with @garrytan, @snowmaker, @sdianahu, and @harjtaggar to talk about why robotics is finally ready for its scaling moment, how PI runs its models in the cloud rather than on-device, and the playbook for what Quan sees as a Cambrian explosion of vertical robotics companies.
00:00 — Robotics just got cheaper
00:41 — The GPT moment for robotics
02:24 — Why robots didn’t work before
05:30 — The breakthrough that changed everything
09:12 — The data problem
13:33 — Robots learning without data
15:05 — Robots folding laundry (for real)
22:18 — From engineering problem → ops problem
29:12 — The startup playbook
38:46 — Thousands of robotics startups are coming
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Apr 11
Why does Waymo spread their cars across dozens of cities? They should completely saturate one city til they match Uber’s pick up times.
I assume they’re trying to lose because winning in self-driving means putting too many people out of work, making Google look like a villain.
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Plenty of my Meta friends told me folks have been building bots that just run in a loop burning tokens as fast as they can due to this policy.
It's an absolutely stupid policy and is similar to how Meta uses LoC to measure eng output. Managers are supposed to use it as a proxy and dig in to understand work complexity, but plenty of managers are lazy and just don't.
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Mar 16
$5k for a bimanual manipulator, shipping now
You can now train @physical_int style robots in 1 day for only $5k. Anvil’s devkits have all the hardware, software, controls, cameras, and more ready-to-go. (1/5)
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Mar 13
Hanging out and talking about AI and robots with some folks next week at Stanford
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Mar 13
The last time I hung out with Ben and Keerthana we ended up talking about robots until ~11pm, it was really fun (for a certain type of person, I guess)
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Benjamin Bolte retweeted
Mar 10
I've been hard at work the past few months in SF working on some buy buttons. Today I'm launching my plug-and-play product line that lets you build a robot real fast.
Right now to make a robot you have to stitch together a bunch of different PCBs with jumper cables and wait weeks for blackbox actuators to arrive from China. You spend lots of time debugging why your CAN bus isn’t working, why every actuator performs differently, and meanwhile your wires keep coming loose.
So, I'm making the following:
- RB1: A robot main board powered by an Nvidia Jetson. This handles power distribution, compute, and a bunch more.
- WM1: 2-channel wireless radio for sending video/data making the RB1 remotely controllable over USB-C.
- M1: A pancake BLDC motor machined in-house.
- ACB3: An FOC control board with matching connectors to the RB1. (big brother to ACB v2.0)
- A1/A1m: A planetary/cycloidal actuator powered by the ACB3. (this is on the site in a couple weeks)
Everything is on sale for this week, and shipping begins this spring! As a big thank you to the supporters of ACB v2.0 (and thanks for patience in shipping delays) you can buy the ACB3 for 50% off.
If you like this kind of thing and want to join please DM me, I'm working solo right now and need good folks to join!
Mar 10
HLabs (@hlabs_) is making plug-and-play electronics and actuators for robots domestically in the USA. These products abstract away all of the complexity in designing and controlling a robot's electronics.
Congrats on the launch, @paulcjh_!
ycombinator.com/launches/PfW…
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I suppose this is as good a time as any to share that I've joined OpenAI. I plan to continue supporting a few open source humanoid companies like @asimovinc and anvil.bot where I can. The next few years are going to be pivotal. Excited to help build the singularity.
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Mar 5
Origami Robotics is building high-DOF robotic hands with in-joint motors and a co-designed data-collection glove to eliminate the embodiment gap by collecting high-quality, real-world data at scale.
Congrats on the launch, @DanielXieee and @QuanliangX!
ycombinator.com/launches/Pcl…
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Really exciting!!
Mar 3
Asimov DIY Kit is now in pre-order 🧡
Introducing Here Be Dragons edition, a DIY kit to build a humanoid robot.
Pre-order now: asimov.inc/diy-kit
A message from the Asimov team:
Asimov DIY Kit is made for those who want to build a humanoid robot from scratch.
The kit is made entirely from the same parts we use to build Asimov. It arrives as parts and you assemble it yourself. It requires mechanical and electrical knowledge.
The manual and build videos are included, and we'd be happy to be there through Discord to help.
Built for the ones who took apart their parents' electronics as kids and never really stopped.
We have a long way to go, and this is the first step.
Here be dragons.
Pre-order now: asimov.inc/diy-kit
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Benjamin Bolte retweeted
Mar 3
Asimov DIY Kit is now in pre-order 🧡
Introducing Here Be Dragons edition, a DIY kit to build a humanoid robot.
Pre-order now: asimov.inc/diy-kit
A message from the Asimov team:
Asimov DIY Kit is made for those who want to build a humanoid robot from scratch.
The kit is made entirely from the same parts we use to build Asimov. It arrives as parts and you assemble it yourself. It requires mechanical and electrical knowledge.
The manual and build videos are included, and we'd be happy to be there through Discord to help.
Built for the ones who took apart their parents' electronics as kids and never really stopped.
We have a long way to go, and this is the first step.
Here be dragons.
Pre-order now: asimov.inc/diy-kit
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