Varun R

I started ‘The Embodiment’ as a zen-space on Linkedin for the global audience, where I share the latest technology updates and research in the field of Physical AI with deep technical insights so that people do not have to consume noise about Physical AI and actually read about the reality and hard hitting facts in simplistic terms. Researchers and people who are grounded to first principle thinking hate noise and nonsense fed in the name of AI on their feeds, and this is an effort to sorta calm their brains and make sure they are consuming the right content. Do follow the page on Linkedin and checkout this huge announcement from NVIDIA today ! linkedin.com/company/the-em…

The time has arrived for Robotics and Physical AI in 🇮🇳! Indian youth from the previous generation took inspiration from India’s success in space research and if you remember your childhood, most of your answers to “Who do you want to become when you grow up” were I want to be an astronaut I want to work for ISRO I want to build satellites I strongly believe the next generation (GenZ) in India would take inspiration from the AI and Robotics scene in India and would want to grow up to build meaningful AI and intelligent robots for the society. (Humanoids, Quadrupeds, Drones,etc.) Warm stories about India’s deeptech scene is what made me come back to 🇮🇳 from the 🇺🇸 and connect more of these inspiring minds across age-groups and inspire them towards a career in Robotics and Physical AI at Robotics India Community! Let’s talk ! Join our efforts today : discord.gg/vGhxjcrx4

@natashamalpani @pratty_agi Exactly the mindset we encourage at Robotics India Community through our Initiatives! 5000 Indians have already loved it and benefiting from the exposure to the bleeding edge in Robotics and Physical AI! Join today : discord.gg/vGhxjcrx4

the next frontier gets built by the people who never asked if they were allowed to. a team of 24 year olds in bangalore are building autonomous snake-like robotic arms for inspection in hazardous industries. the founders did not inherit the assumption that this problem belonged to boston dynamics or a german engineering firm. we keep seeing this pattern. founders young enough to questions industries from first principles. diaspora who saw the frontier from the inside and came back having decided this is where the leverage is. founders entering categories from the outside: designers building software, biologists building hardware, engineers rebuilding healthcare. in a moment where AI is collapsing the cost of attempting hard things, the cognitive starting point is everything. the founders asking how things actually work- not how things are done- are the ones who get to write the new rules. frontier tech from india is not a prediction. it is our portfolio.

@shyamalanadkat @OpenAI Yes! We are reinforcing the belief with Robotics India Community, where our patrons build tech across the World for the collective benefit for the world, and not just India! Happy to chat more about the initiative!

after close to four years at @openai, i moved from the bay area to india earlier this year. i still believe deeply in ensuring true superintelligence accelerates science and remains accessible and beneficial to all. having grown up here, i've also always felt deeply connected to the ecosystem here. over the past several weeks, i've been speaking with researchers, engineers, and thinkers across india and apac. it's become clear that there are many who want to build the future from here. moving back felt like the counterintuitive choice. i no longer think that's true. what's been missing is the belief that you can build institutions of global consequence from anywhere. and more importantly, the ambition and the will to pursue ideas that seem impossibly large at first. this may be a once in a generation opportunity. more to come soon. DMs open if this resonates.

@a_hahahahad We do that for Robotics and Physical AI! Come to our events and suddenly you are hooked to robotics!

Bangalore is so network-dense you could walk into a random cafe with your resume and walk out with a career in finance.

@kapoorkkunal Exactly what we are doing at Robotics India Community! Make serious Robotics and Physical AI cooler for the GenZ ! discord.gg/CtZVY2MTb

The West didn't just build institutions. It built fandom around them. NASA hoodies. Air Force jackets. Great seeing ISRO and Indian forces merch on the shelves, and soon in my wardrobe :) A confident country doesn't just celebrate its institutions, it turns them into culture.

Physical AI and Pizza event by @ RIC Bengaluru Chapter! High intensity conversations around World Models, Humanoids, Gaussian Splatting, Teleop, Foundational Models, Full Self Driving, etc. We are still here, do come by! If you couldn’t make it this time, stay tuned for all our events in India through our Luma and Discord! Discord Link : discord.gg/XbWpPCTxF

We already have 33 awesome AI and Robotics folks from Bengaluru registered! Sign up soon! luma.com/sth2lyh7

Hello Bengaluru, I am hosting ya’ll for a Pizza Party over a lighthearted conversation on the future of Physical AI, tomorrow at 2PM. You will also get to meet interesting nerds from around the city geeking out over AI and Robotics! Register before the slices get over! Link to Register : luma.com/sth2lyh7

High Fidelity UAV Simulator using @nvidiaomniverse ! You will not believe my luck but I managed to develop all the essential modes (Joystick Control, Autonomous Mission Control and AI in the loop) SITL simulations today (making it one of the most cracked Urban Simulators for Multi UAV’s out there) when I was teaching a bunch of kids for a competition! This can be used for 1. Training soldiers, cops, infrastructure maintenance pilots, emergency response workers 2. Simulate complex multi agent problems 3. Generate high quality Petabytes of Photorealistic and Physics backed urban and terrain data every single day! DM for Licensing and more details!

@jaibellare @astrokaran @SwarajyaMag @hackerfabindia India’s GenZ for you 🫡 Absolute rockstars So called semiconductor legends of India who are enslaved at NVIDIA TI Samsung Infineon etc should take inspiration from these kids and build for 🇮🇳

Super grateful to @astrokaran from @SwarajyaMag for doing a deep-dive into our work @hackerfabindia : swarajyamag.com/technology/ins… Deep-tech ventures like ours need storytellers like Karan to translate our research for a wider audience. Know more at hackerfabiitb.github.io

The Bengaluru Advantage : Rising as a Global Hub for Robotics and Physical AI Hosted by: Robotics India Community, Bengaluru Chapter As a Bengaluru Boy, I have always admired by the vast ecosystem that the city provides to aspiring entrepreneurs and talent to flourish in the technology space, and now its time for Robotics and Physical AI ventures to capitalize on the opportunity and make it big in the ecosystem, while building bleeding edge intelligent systems for the world! Here is a slide deck that unwraps the true benefits of positioning your venture in the Silicon Valley of India! Link : docs.google.com/presentation/d… Happy to chat over potential collaboration opportunities we have been exploring at Robotics India Community to improve the Physical AI scene of India 🤖🚀🇮🇳 @TVMohandasPai @ITBTGoK @PriyankKharge

My best learning so far The new crop of Indians 🇮🇳 are super ambitious and hungry AF to succeed and only need quality, guidance and ecosystem support to excel and break the barriers of what we can achieve as a collective! Reason I say that : We are seeing double fold memberships to our Robotics India Community in just 3 days, where we provide a level ground to play at the Global Robotics and Physical AI scene, making us one or the fastest organically growing tech community in 🇮🇳 today! Robotics India Community is a spark in this endeavor and we will do everything possible to make sure India churns out the most cracked robotics engineers for the World! Join us today on Discord : discord.gg/CtZVY2MTb

The Bengaluru Advantage : Rising as a Global Hub for Robotics and Physical AI Hosted by: Robotics India Community, Bengaluru Chapter Luma : luma.com/nn21xr3g Event Description: Discover why Bengaluru is the definitive destination for pioneering Robotics and Physical AI ventures. Join us online to explore the dynamic ecosystem that attracts global innovators and builders. Who Should Attend: Professionals and enthusiasts already in Bengaluru's Robotics ecosystem. Entrepreneurs seeking to understand the local innovation, talent and manufacturing landscape. Budding entrepreneurs planning to relocate to Bengaluru to launch their next venture.

Hot Takes - The trillion dollar valued WORLD models and robots of the west are only going to be built by Indian data and the trends are strong! 1. 1000’s of Egocentric Data Companies in India, entered factories, households, many other public places! Best place to scale! 2. Entry of devices such as Meta Glasses into the Indian market 3. Lowest cost data suited for Physical AI across the world! 4. Enough young people to provide agile data to the data lake I see it in these ways: Being a technology optimist, 🇮🇳 has to capitalize on owning the entire data pipeline, and charging a premium on the data because these are gold standard data that the west can never generate at such a humongous scale. Simply boycott/blanket ban any company that is not Indian in this data collection space. Let’s play to our strengths and let only Indian companies do this! Also, entrepreneurship has multiplied 10 fold because of this boom and thats a great sign for 🇮🇳’s story. Data Privacy : A basic compliance and consent to not reveal faces is all that is needed to trade the data! The other policies will evolve with time and new incidents! Access to tech and models? It also might be true that 🇮🇳 might never see or experience the generalized/household robots or the models that were trained on this very same homegrown data, and we should be prepared for it. Superintelligence will be owned elsewhere while we still play the major role in supply chain! But we will be the ultimate fools if we don’t charge enough for the data! Someone pls pass this on to the lawmakers in 🇮🇳!