Apheth D Almeida

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

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

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…

@seeedstudio Thanks @seeedstudio

#reBot streamlines your day! Thanks @Apheth_DAlmeida for sharing this amazing application~ Looking forward to seeing more possibilities coming in daily life! Check reBot Arm B601-DM/RS version latest progress: github.com/Seeed-Projects…

@hthieblot @Instacart @fdotinc 🫡🫡

@Apheth_DAlmeida @Instacart @fdotinc Let’s go

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

@Em_Nomadic Thanks @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.

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@Dev_Man_Dan @fdotinc The Spring helps the arm to lift lot more payload than without it.

@Apheth_DAlmeida @fdotinc I have so many questions but I'm just going to ask one: Walk me through the thinking when it comes to adding all the springs?

Thats Lucen just before breaking down last week…🥲 Some last restocking before we upgrade the arm. @fdotinc

@sumukhanadig8 Slept pretty good😴

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@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

Why the #SantaAna City Council and @MayorValAmezcua is poised to increase the grocery bills of Santa Ana shoppers.

Good news: We fixed it. Deployment in a robot-first hotel in LA, robot pick and place on another 🤖 @fdotinc

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!

@Em_Nomadic @LucenRobotics Thanks Emerson, working on to make that happen very soon :)

Really cool what @LucenRobotics is building, when I come to SF I hope to see these out in the real world.

Deployment at a different store, got the shot before the robot broke down😅 @fdotinc

Teleoperating with meta vr and ps5 controller🤟@fdotinc

@jerica_kuah @LerWilson Keep up guys💪💪😁😁

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.