Founding engineer @watneyrobotics

Joined September 2018
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17 Mar 2025
The distribution of care vateseif.com/care
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25 Nov 2024
I joined watney some time ago. Checkout the only dexterous robots deployed into the real world 24/7
FOLD! FOLD! FOLD! An overnight timelapse of one of our live deployments teleoperated from over 7000 miles away. Our robots fold 24/7/365 with no human intervention, handling long-tail edge cases with no downtime.
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12 Apr 2024
Me and @arbwes are open-sourcing the code to train the low cost robot (<250$) designed by @alexkoch_ai. This is the policy trained on a sorting task with less than 30 demonstrations. github.com/Shaka-Labs/ACT
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We readapt the ACT implementation by @tonyzzhao that was used to train ALOHA. The policy was trained on an RTX 3080 in <30min. This is how data was collected.
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This is how a human compares to the trained robot in terms of execution time:
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20 Mar 2024
How can we empower classical control in robotics with advanced AI *without sacrificing safety and accuracy*? Introducing NARRATE, a versatile language architecture for optimal control in robotics 🤖 🧵 Paper, prompts and code open-sourced below 👇
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In NARRATE we leverage the ability of LLMs to write free-form mathematical expressions such as objective and constraint functions to initialize an optimization-based controller (i.e. MPC) from language instructions. - Project page: narrate-mpc.github.io/ - Code (Sim): github.com/vateseif/narrate - Code (ROS): github.com/vateseif/narrate-…
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I built a web app that generates 3k$ MRR in passive revenue (0 hours a week between me and @ElFrej ). The lesson? It’s not that difficult. A thread… 🧵
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14 Jan 2024
you should almost always support any startup to succeed. it’s thanks to others’ success that we all get a chance to try it
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10 Jan 2024
My toxic trait is wanting to do a startup in robotics
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2 Dec 2023
Lessons are learnt the hard way
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31 Oct 2023
It's not the eyes that are blind but the hearts
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18 Sep 2023
Me: You are controlling robots in a kitchen. Move a sponge to the sink but since the sponge is wet find a way to avoid dropping water GPT:
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16 Aug 2023
My father: "I remember being 10 and going to buy fish with my father from a neighboring village. We stocked so much that the motorbike got full and I had to get back home on a boat with the fishermen we bought the fish from. I remember getting seasick from the travel..."
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16 Aug 2023
Force is within the brain
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1 Jul 2023
A very simple implementation shows that GPT can already be a useful tool for tuning LQR/PID controllers without the user's need to know anything about them github.com/vateseif/lmpc-py/…

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23 Dec 2021
La guerra di Piero - Analisi del testo youtu.be/mutrhaN-lJM via @YouTube

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