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Dan James

@ATTlKA

Moonshots at @UBER | ✝️ | As seen @ Tesla Optimus/Autopilot, Foundation Robotics

San Francisco, CA Katılım Nisan 2013
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Neil Bahadur@NeilBahadur·
I have so much respect for this tbh; he's the only guy that's both realized and accepted that the idea of the traditional movie star is over unless you have complete control over your image and are associated solely with high quality projects
Timothée Chalamet Updates@timotheeupdates

Timothée Chalamet, Plan B, and Brian Swardstrom are set to produce a film based on the New York Times bestseller ‘Playground’. Timothée is also likely to star in it. The story follows Todd Keane and his two best friends from the University of Illinois, from the tech boom of Silicon Valley to the phosphate-mined Polynesian island of Makatea.

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interpretation@materialcritic·
as any good writer will tell you, there are 7 basic types of story: 1. rags to riches 2. man vs man 3. man vs bee 4. voyage to meat world 5. coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb 6. amateur pornography 7. evangelion
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Nuro
Nuro@nuro·
Meet the fleet! Now almost 100 vehicles strong, our Robotaxi Engineering Fleet is gathering diverse real-world data and testing autonomous driving in multiple U.S. cities and states ahead of the launch of our autonomous ride-hail service. This is what responsible and scalable autonomy deployment looks like. Driven by Nuro, built by @LucidMotors, available exclusively on @Uber. #DrivenByNuro #SelfDriving #AutonomousVehicles
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Uber@Uber·
A big step forward for autonomous mobility in Japan 🇯🇵 Together with @wayve_ai and @NissanUSA, we’ve announced our Tokyo robotaxi pilot with a safety operator in 2026. The all new Nissan LEAF will be powered by Wayve’s AI Driver and available exclusively on Uber. The future is here.
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Dan James@ATTlKA·
In no world is it worthwhile to record gig workers doing busywork, but the spray and prey data market makes it look deceptively appealing. Doordash very likely misunderstood the Uber Earners app when it was announced, assumed it was designed for robotics and copied it 1:1 without taking a moment to think through the logic. Bizarre case of copying something without actually understanding what the competitor was actually doing.
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Astrid Wilde 🌞@astridwilde1·
we can live in one of two futures a world in which armies of people are being paid to do busy work whose only purpose and productive output is to "create training data" or a world in which we use the training data already available (internet video)
Andy Fang@andyfang

Introducing Dasher Tasks Dashers can now get paid to do general tasks. We think this will be huge for building the frontier of physical intelligence. Look forward to seeing where this goes!

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Tejes Srivalsan
Tejes Srivalsan@tejessrivalsan·
excited to announce that we’re open sourcing EGO-SNAKE the largest dataset of egocentric snake pov footage to train the next generation of autonomous vipers comment for a data sample
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Dan James@ATTlKA·
Entirely valid, and I think everyone in this space learns a lot from each other this way. We’ve certainly been on the receiving end of a lot of innovation outside our walls. I do think it’s somewhat more notable when this phenomenon is aimed at approaching emerging technology for R&D rather than user service offering experiences. That says a lot about how confident they are or aren’t that they know what’s on the other end of that technological tunnel. Especially when they copied critical mistakes in the engagement model we’ve since fixed.
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Jeremy Bowman
Jeremy Bowman@TMFBowman·
@ATTlKA Bro, Uber would still be doing black cab rides only if it didn't copy off Lyft .
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Dan James@ATTlKA·
It has been a little funny watching Doordash copy Uber’s every move in robotics with such 1:1 execution. First, our delivery robotics and now Uber Earner. Because I genuinely want to see them try to copy what I’m cooking up next. The next step is where the bloodsport starts 🙈
Andy Fang@andyfang

Introducing Dasher Tasks Dashers can now get paid to do general tasks. We think this will be huge for building the frontier of physical intelligence. Look forward to seeing where this goes!

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Kyle Vedder
Kyle Vedder@KyleVedder·
the holy grail of robotics is a self improvement loop that can hill climb into unambiguously superhuman territory on real tasks by sharing internal VLA state with an adaptive policy, we got an off policy TD actor critic setup to do that figure 9 is the money shot
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Physical Intelligence@physical_int

We developed an RL method for fine-tuning our models for precise tasks in just a few hours or even minutes. Instead of training the whole model, we add an “RL token” output to π-0.6, our latest model, which is used by a tiny actor and critic to learn quickly with RL.

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Dan James@ATTlKA·
If you’re a VC with robotics portcos you love and hold dear, beg them to have this conversation with me sooner rather than later. The sharp slope of this curve is going to hit robotics faster and more brutally than it hit AVs.
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Dan James@ATTlKA·
You’re noticing now that Uber is the home of Robotaxis. There’s a reason for that: Deployment to the real world is *really* hard. It will kill you. It almost killed us long ago! Robotics folks: Have this conversation with me now so you aren’t having it with us *after* deployment.
Rivian@Rivian

A fleet of R2 Robotaxis is coming exclusively to @Uber. ⚡🌿 Today, we announced a partnership to help both companies accelerate their autonomous vehicle plans across 25 cities in the US, Canada and Europe by the end of 2031. rivn.co/uber

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Rivian@Rivian·
A fleet of R2 Robotaxis is coming exclusively to @Uber. ⚡🌿 Today, we announced a partnership to help both companies accelerate their autonomous vehicle plans across 25 cities in the US, Canada and Europe by the end of 2031. rivn.co/uber
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Dan James@ATTlKA·
@luke_metro @chris_j_paxton If they can’t be bothered to at least pitch “an innovative approach to UMI grippers,” they gotta get to the back of the line
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Luke Metro
Luke Metro@luke_metro·
Nvidia GTC 2026:
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Sci-Fi Archives
Sci-Fi Archives@SciFiArchives·
This shot from Dune 3 trailer is absolutely insane
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emily yu
emily yu@emily_yu·
at gtc, you blink and there’s another robotics data collection startup.
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Jordanreviewsittt
Jordanreviewsittt@jordanreviewsit·
ATTENTION LADIES: this is how to treat your man after he’s had a long day of sending emails and looking at powerpoints
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sigfig
sigfig@sigfig·
people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now
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