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L3 is never going to happen. Not because of the technology, but because of the insurance liability risks.

Florida welcomes Waymo to the sunshine state ☀️ Great work from @MyFDOT for bringing this to our roadways. Let’s keep moving Florida forward 🤖

Spark is live. Meet the lowest-profile robot in our fleet. ✅ Sub-200 mm footprint ✅ Near-silent operation ✅ Industry-leading speed + teach Spark new routines in minutes using our no-code software. Compact and ready to work. Learn more: standardbots.com/spark #robotics #physicalAI #manufacturing #automation

Our area…which everyone outside the area calls Tampa Bay and everyone who lives here knows is really the Greater St. Petersburg Area, 😉is next Florida city to get @Waymo. Sunshine, grid streets, and just enough unpredictability to make the engineers earn their keep. But this is bigger than the cars. Autonomous fleets change land use math. Fewer mandatory parking garages. More housing on the same footprint. Corridors designed for people, not just storage for vehicles. Real density without the sprawl tax. If we want the next wave of growth to make us richer and more livable instead of just more crowded, this is how it starts.

The Wine Robots of Paso Robles vineyard, California. Thorvald is a modular, autonomous robot platform developed by Saga Robotics, that performs UV-C light treatments to kill powdery mildew on grapes and strawberries, without use of chemicals. x.com/timeforainews/…

Backed by strategic investors including Eric Trump and Unusual Machines, the merger will create a publicly traded defense robotics company anchored in Tampa. bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/…

🎙️ Grace Brown is the founder and CEO of Andromeda, building social companion robots designed for aged care and healthcare environments: In this episode, Grace shares a founder journey that started long before a company existed. She had been building robots since her teenage years, but the real motivation appeared during COVID lockdowns. People in care facilities were physically supported, yet emotionally isolated. The goal became simple. Build a robot people actually want around them. We talk about learning outside the curriculum, reaching out to mentors early, and running long real-world pilots before the product was ready. Instead of waiting for perfection, Andromeda deployed unfinished systems into nursing homes to understand behavior, trust, and human reaction. Grace explains why the hardest problem in social robotics is not intelligence but comfort. A robot can function technically and still fail if people feel uneasy around it. Design, personality, and interaction determine adoption more than raw capability. We also discuss building a company as a young founder, hiring commercial leadership early, and how moving into the US startup ecosystem changed the pace of decisions and iteration. You don't want to miss this one! Building Deep Tech #99 "You Can't Be What You Can't See" With Grace Brown, Founder and CEO of Andromeda 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1rb3kI… 🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bui… 🎬 YouTube: youtu.be/Eem6m0ZiOYM

Self-driving cars + shared AVs could wipe out 50-90% of parking needs in coming decades. Mandates are already outdated slash 'em before AVs make 'em obsolete! #YIMBY #FutureOfMobility

Insurance is half price when Tesla self-driving is activated, because it increases safety so much

Thankful to have attended another fantastic Florida Autonomous Vehicles Summit in Orlando this year. Thank you to the @FLPolicyProject & @JeffreyBrandes for putting this event together. @koop_ai is proud to play a role in this ecosystem as it continues to develop.

@koop_ai is excited to be back for the “Florida Automated Vehicles Summit” in Orlando this year! A fantastic event that connects public policy and the private market to advance Autonomy in Florida. Thank you to the @FLPolicyProject for putting this together!

@felipekiwi90 Congrats!

Six months ago, we introduced Robot.com Today, we launch it 🎉 Over the past few years, we’ve quietly scaled from 300K to 1.7 million+ robotic tasks. 500+ real robots. Doing real work every day — delivering, moving, inspecting, and more. Here's the lineup: 1. R-Dog ™ — Digital Out-of-Home Advertising (New) A robotic dog with dual high-resolution screens, bringing motion and interactivity to advertising. And a moving tail :) 2. R-Noid ™ — Humanoids (New) We built ours differently. Assisting in kitchens and handling repetitive work. (Not just to impress). 3. R-Kiwi ™ — Last-Mile Delivery Delivers meals across campuses. Designed for outdoor autonomy and social acceptance. 4. R-Cargo ™ — Warehouse & Logistics Moves materials across factories and warehouses. Built for precision and indoor/outdoor reliability. Our advantage isn’t just technology. It’s trust. Because in physical AI, social trust isn’t nice-to-have; it’s the moat. It’s how robotics stops feeling foreign and starts feeling familiar. We’re here to lead by building what can be deployed and scaled now. We’re here to show that robots can be accepted — even loved — by design.

🧵The quiet revolution in robotics isn't humanoids. It's the rise of inspection & maintenance robots, quietly scaling across dirty, dangerous, and distant industrial environments. This sector is projected to hit $8.3B by 2030. Let's break down why it's growing so fast. [Save this thread for later 📌]

laundry-folding robots are a $1T TAM

Robots are out here training for the Olympics. At the world’s first Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, Unitree’s G1 sprinted through the 100-meter obstacle course. It leapt ramps, balanced on planks, tackled uneven platforms, and won first place in 33.71 seconds.

This microsurgery robot is precise enough to stitch a corn kernel.

@rohanpaul_ai Thank you! Would love to see the comparison.

@JohnyAutonomy will check for relevant research data on that.

China’s humanoid robot market is projected to grow to 6 trillion yuan by 2050 (~$ 835 Bn ) - Morgan Stanley Research

Say goodbye to laundry folding! We’re building that future @VerneRobotics. Interested in our robots? DM me or book a pilot today: vernerobotics.com/work-with-us