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@Sylviaposts Your hair is stunning tho 😯 teach us your ways

SF startup life has officially broken me. I haven’t really slept for the past two days. Back-to-back meetings across time zones. Haven’t had a normal life in weeks. Somehow even stopped talking to guys. If you’re waiting on my email or DM, give me a little more time 😭

Walden Robotics came out of stealth today at $1.1B, spun out of @ToyotaResearch. With their arrival, the landscape of automotive companies and their robotics bets is becoming clearer. @Toyota → Walden Robotics @Tesla → @Tesla_Optimus @Rivian → Mind Robotics Hyundai → @BostonDynamics @BMWGroup → @Figure_robot @MercedesBenz → @Apptronik That's not to mention Chinese companies like @XPENG_Global and @CheryAutoCo with their own initiatives. The biggest manufacturing enterprises in the world are putting their money where their mouth is. We are at the beginning of the robotic renaissance. Are there any that I missed?

@ax_pey Please let it be that robotics dexterity is culminating into humanoid lightsaber fights

announcement today

@ritwikpavan @sreddy_1 Congratulations!! And OMG the fits for both y'all 🔥🔥🔥

hi friends life update: got married 4 months ago! we hosted our friends & family in india for a week :)

Excited to see fun/interesting designs aesthetics for humanoids. For a market with a lot of hurdles technically & socially, this is how you break through. @WaldenRobotics youtu.be/fewvZrckA5c?is…

@antoinemarcel Wait omg so cute, i need him. Please add me 🥹🙏🥹

Finally working :) The 1st home robot that's really easy to set up (< 30min for your 1st task), community-driven (if someone teaches it how to grab a beer and bring it to them, it’ll be able to do it too), and low-cost. Shipping 50 units soon. Link below if you want to join the private WhatsApp group.

@shivanijpatel Preach 🙏

I don’t believe in god I believe in body dysmorphia, crippling anxiety, and the weight of never being good enough

I think @AnthropicAI is basically on the same deployment schedule as Thomas Edison 🤣

@jaiyagill Aren't they hiring companions for 26k a date?

my theory is the economy is in shambles because AI researchers are making egregious amounts of money and refusing to spend any of it - no plans to retire - no new clothes or apartment upgrade - splitting the bill to the last cent - no girlfriend surely that amount of wealth lockup can’t be good? anyways if you need ideas on how to stimulate the economy happy to help

@jaiyagill See you in SF!

📍places i’ll be this summer: la, sf, nyc, austin, london - who’s around?? dm me let’s grab coffee, hang, etc + pls send recs

@ShuoYangAIR We just put in the pre-order! We're so excited to be a part of this journey with you!

A year ago, when I left Tesla Optimus to co-found Mondo, I made a promise to my son: I would build him a little robot buddy — something like the robot friends from our bedtime stories, but real. At the time, it was not really a product statement. It was a father’s promise to a little boy I love more than anything — a boy who loved stories about a child and his robot companion. Over the past year, that promise slowly became real — Beni the robot. Beni follows you, films you in 4K, moves across different terrain, jumps over obstacles, captures moments from new angles, and helps turn your clips into highlights. We designed it for families, pets, creators, athletes, and anyone who wants a robot that feels less like a gadget and more like a little sidekick. I’m deeply grateful to the Mondo team for turning countless prototypes, failures, late-night tests, and difficult tradeoffs into something people can finally meet. Although we have only just launched on Kickstarter, this world-class team is already deep in the “production hell”, and we expect to ship the product in the next few months. I’m also especially thankful to my family. Building hardware takes time, patience, and sacrifice from the people closest to you. Beni would not exist without their love and support. My son often visits our office and plays with Beni. Watching them together has reminded me why I started this journey in the first place. I do not want him to grow up thinking of robots only as distant machines in labs, factories, or videos. I want him to grow up in a world where robots can feel close, friendly, safe, and present — something he can play with, trust, and remember as part of his childhood. For the robotics community: Beni may look cute, but it is a serious robotics product. We used reinforcement learning to train Beni’s motion policies, with NVIDIA Isaac Lab and Google MuJoCo as part of our training and validation pipeline. Under the playful exterior are real robotics problems in locomotion, perception, control, and sim-to-real transfer. The lessons we are learning from Beni also directly inform our future humanoid product. Different form factor, same belief: advanced robotics should not feel distant or abstract. It should become close, present, and part of everyday life. For my son, Beni began as a promise. For Mondo Robotics, it is just the first step. Meet Beni: mondorobotics.com

@xuelinda7 Thank you for sharing ❤️

Claude's art generator only leaves me with questions (and chuckles)

@sonofalli Me all the time 🥹

amazing news! after overthinking it for 8 hours and letting it ruin my sleep, i’ve come to the conclusion that it’s actually not a big deal!

Possible scenarios (ranked in order): 1/ Your country makes the best cheapest products. You export, and your citizens also buy the best. 2/ Your country doesn’t make the best/cheapest; but your consumers enjoy them (Brazil below). 3/ Your country doesn’t make the cheapest/best AND your country blocks access to your market. So you pay more for worst products, and you don’t export. Plus your local companies become less globally competitive as they are protected. #3 is the worst. It’s what Europe did when America thrived. And it’s what many in Washington recommend today.

These robots with no legs should be vacuums too for a 2-in-1.

We are finally seeing the launch of cheap, capable robot hardware that is at consumer price levels. new announcements from Weave, Nori Robotics, and Bracketbot show the wave of future consumer robot products that will live in your home and do your chores. more: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthink…

@kyliebytes Oh nooo. We gotta train them on Off Campus instead haha

ai nerds please start watching love island, corbinGPT already benchmaxxed this weeks ago

Tomorrow You'll want to see this

@weaverobotics THE BLINK ❤️❤️❤️