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Apheth D Almeida

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Building @lucenrobotics | Canopy @fdotinc

San Francisco, CA Katılım Şubat 2026
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Apheth D Almeida@Apheth_DAlmeida·
We’re building the new @Instacart - except the shoppers are robots. Lucen picks live orders. No humans in the aisle. Building @fdotinc.
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Apheth D Almeida@Apheth_DAlmeida·
You saw it pick @Instacart orders. Here it is on the night shift — restocking the same aisles it shops from. One robot. 24/7. No humans needed. Building @fdotinc, @seeedstudio
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Seeed Studio@seeedstudio·
Thrilled to see the #reBotArm B601-DM as the core manipulator in @Apheth_DAlmeida Lucen-O2 system — a mobile robot building the future of autonomous retail. ✅Robotic Body: Powered by the reBot Arm B601-DM, providing the precise 6+1 DoF manipulation for picking items in complex aisles. ✅Edge AI Brain: Driven by an @NVIDIARobotics #Jetson #AGX 64GB for on-board, real-time perception and decision-making. ✅Sophisticated Vision: Four-camera array for depth, wrist, and #FOV, with policies like #ACT and #SmolVLA enabling continuous learning. 👉 Learn more about the reBot Arm B601-DM Bundle: seeedstudio.com/reBot-Arm-B601…
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Apheth D Almeida@Apheth_DAlmeida·
We’re building the new @Instacart - except the shoppers are robots. Lucen picks live orders. No humans in the aisle. Building @fdotinc.
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Emerson S@Em_Nomadic·
I think about what the early days of ridesharing looked like. People thought it was a clever app for connecting drivers and passengers. What it actually was, in retrospect, was a decade-long experiment in whether you could build a transportation network without owning any vehicles or employing any drivers. The grocery picker model has the same structure. Instacart built the demand network. Lucen is building the infrastructure to fulfill that demand without the shopper. And the implications of removing the labor variable from a marketplace model are exactly as large as they were for ridesharing. We’re just at the part of the story that still looks like a scrappy robot in a grocery aisle.
Apheth D Almeida@Apheth_DAlmeida

We’re building the new @Instacart - except the shoppers are robots. Lucen picks live orders. No humans in the aisle. Building @fdotinc.

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Founders Inc
Founders Inc@fdotinc·
Why are you a founder?
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Apheth D Almeida@Apheth_DAlmeida·
Thats Lucen just before breaking down last week…🥲 Some last restocking before we upgrade the arm. @fdotinc
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Sumukha nadig@sumukhanadig8·
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Apheth D Almeida@Apheth_DAlmeida·
@CalGrocers @MayorValAmezcua Restocking is the bigger labor cost most stores don't talk about. $18–25/hr, 60%+ turnover, nobody wants the overnight shift. We're building robots that handle it. Live in 3 SF independent stores today. Happy to show any CA grocer how it works. @LucenRobotics
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Linyan Fu@Linyan_Fu·
Good news: We fixed it. Deployment in a robot-first hotel in LA, robot pick and place on another 🤖 @fdotinc
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jerica@jerica_kuah·
day 5 @fdotinc (HUGE WIN 🏆) - the underwater robot is now able to move the green grass to the orange bin autonomously! - launched a newsletter on Substack - demoed to a bunch of kids (and they liked it) on the great quest to building autonomous underwater robots in the sea 🛳️ @hthieblot @ruslanjabari @mdjshin follow along!
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Apheth D Almeida@Apheth_DAlmeida·
Deployment at a different store, got the shot before the robot broke down😅 @fdotinc
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jerica@jerica_kuah·
day 2 - ROV finally arrived - successfully tele-operated the ROV - testing begins in the tank we’re building the drones the sea actually needs. follow the build.
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