Jeffrey Lipton

I have had some Jeffisms that my students loved so I’m using AI to make them into accessible cartoons

How do you fit something a kilometer long into a rocket?🚀 I talked with @JeffreyILipton from @lab_robotics who was trying to answer this question on board one of the Zero-G flights I flew on! Their work has evolved into Beyond Reach Labs with a focus on deployable solar arrays.

@truthconquest @EricRWeinstein @grok We need to promote people from worker to investor rather than demote them to dependent

@EricRWeinstein @grok what is coase?

The solution to the coming AI Jobs Tsunami is Coase. Not UBI. Coase. UBI leads to welfare. Communism. Tyranny. Despair. Human dependancy. Coase leads to choice, Freedom, Markets. Human Dignity. Survival. Coase >> UBI

Player piano may be the most prophetic book

No black box—just explainable, deployable, robust code. That’s how we guarantee industrial strength performance—far beyond old RFM policies.

“Vibe coding” might displace pure policy training for robotics. With tools like Codex or QuadCode, we’ll generate, test, and audit behaviors in a tight loop. Sim data plus human-collected data (teleop or umi-style) become unit tests.

I think with @moltbook and @openclaw the best analogy of compute and the internet is the sprit world. Soon it will be a place primarily dominated by spirits (agents) where humans seek strange power and need to take great care

"'Progressive' antisemitism is now endemic in our intellectual & cultural elite. Its dogma is that Jews as a collective are uniquely undeserving...You either submit to it, as Ardern did, or you’re deemed not progressive and cast out" - @JulietMosesNZ quillette.com/2026/01/23/a-d…

"After October 7, friends called me ‘filthy Zionist.’ Longtime colleagues refused to work with me. This isn’t criticism of Israel. It’s about making Jews pariahs."

I've seen some absolutely disgusting views from Hamas supporters today, but this interview was the most chilling, by far. I can't stop thinking about it. It's the emotionless, psychopathic look on her face. Truly evil. Deport.

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That’s a wrap on the @Robotics_Summit ✨ Our final day was packed with highlights — from the Women in Robotics breakfast and the Healthcare Robotics Catalyst Showcase, to Form and Function Robotics Challenge winners announcement. Huge congratulations to Northeastern University for taking 1st place in this year’s Form and Function Challenge! 2nd Place & Audience Choice Award: University of Waterloo 3rd Place: The University of British Columbia Honorable Mention: Boston University🤖

@lexfridman It’s not an appeal to authority to have standards in a field. What we have seen has been an erosion of standards and accountability for those with authority. Those who wish to elevate themselves on a topic should be expected to be held to standards

Great writeup on our labs work interestingengineering.com/innovation/hyb…

A new Science #Robotics study describes a #SoftRobot made from connected units called #TRUNCs, which can bend, extend, and twist to work safely alongside humans or close a valve. @JeffreyILipton scim.ag/4iyfFlQ

Inspired by elephant trunks, scientists have developed a soft, flexible robotic arm that can twist to stiffen, enabling it to manipulate and install a lightbulb. @MITMechE @NortheasternCOE Read more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/4iyfFlQ

Happy to present our latest paper: Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I’m convinced humanoids are the 3D printer of robotics.

Worth noting that all of the bodies today were discovered in tunnels under Rafah. You remember the extensive pressure campaign to prevent Israel from operating in and around Rafah?

Editor. Of the Harvard. Law. Review.