Von Mises

When the fingers touch something they transition to a constant force mode. the desired force is indicated by the line on the little power bar near the fingers in the 3D view. The green shows how much actual force is being felt by the finger. as you back off the grip, target force lowers until it is zero and then we go back to opening the fingers. I'm also piloting this robot from another room using the interface at neufangled.com/control_panel

It always surprises me how tuned out the Christians are in my parents church. They know very little about any other countries. They think China is collapsing. They know about Israel because it is mentioned in the bible which they think about every day. But they know almost nothing about the modern state. They have no idea how anything is made or how credit works or how disease spreads. I don't think their minds were weak to begin with, but clearly they have been thinking about one topic and one topic only for decades on end.

@heygurisingh If it leads to actually good general intelligence tests can we go back to using it as a job requirement?

Humans: 100% Gemini 3.1 Pro: 0.37% GPT 5.4: 0.26% Opus 4.6: 0.25% Grok-4.20: 0.00% François Chollet just released ARC-AGI-3 -- the hardest AI test ever created. 135 novel game environments. No instructions. No rules. No goals given. Figure it out or fail. Untrained humans solved every single one. Every frontier AI model scored below 1%. Each environment was handcrafted by game designers. The AI gets dropped in and has to explore, discover what winning looks like, and adapt in real time. The scoring punishes brute force. If a human needs 10 actions and the AI needs 100, the AI doesn't get 10%. It gets 1%. You can't throw more compute at this. For context: ARC-AGI-1 is basically solved. Gemini scores 98% on it. ARC-AGI-2 went from 3% to 77% in under a year. Labs spent millions training on earlier versions. ARC-AGI-3 resets the entire scoreboard to near zero. The benchmark launched live at Y Combinator with a fireside between Chollet and Sam Altman. $2M in prizes on Kaggle. All winning solutions must be open-sourced. Scaling alone will not close this gap. We are nowhere near AGI. (Link in the comments)

A dream is a continuous fulfillment of your expectations. But there is one category of experience for which our brain has learned to stop trying to predict - language. You know to expect the unexpected when reading. The whole point is that you will be receiving information that you don't already have. A phone is a particularly dense source of these experiences.

¿Cómo es que ya estamos en 2026 y nadie ha encontrado una explicación convincente de por qué los celulares nunca aparecen en nuestros sueños si los usamos varias horas al día?

@pirooooon3 I love it

これって あり？なし？ 色々と詰まりすぎるね

neufangled.com/stringman-arpe… If you buy a robot from me, I will do everything in my power to ensure you get the most out of it. Be an early adopter, and get a permanent 10% discount on anything Neufangled Robotics ever produces.

@juliarturc Hey! Don't forget those of us who are completely genuine and building something cool but just have absolutely no money to pay employees.

Why so many of us feel career-homeless in tech: >Startups full of fraud, grifters and short-term thinking >FAANG full of politics and slightly behind >Frontier labs in a race with no morals >Academia full of title collectors >Content creation ridden by AI fakes and sensationalism Who is starting the renaissance and how do I get in touch with them?

@elonmusk Thanks! What a great idea

Grok automatically translating and recommending 𝕏 posts from other languages is starting to work

I love this project, but I would just redo the head. I think it needs to have more character. It was really starting to look like that statue of Yuri Gagarin until the head ended up just being a daft punk helmet. I'm not saying it needs to look like him. But I think it should have a strong chin and a nice haircut to go with that awesome torso.

Asimov v1 is an open-source humanoid robot anyone can build with 3D printers and basic tools, making advanced robotics accessible worldwide.

Am I the only person that reads the code that the llms generate? I don't just run it. I read what they wrote, take the parts I like and incorporate it into my program.

@BamaSaltyMarine I agree with that until he betrayed us and sided with Israel. But we're still looking for somebody.

What so many fail to understand is that MAGA is not about Donald Trump. MAGA is about America. We the People were searching for someone, "anyone," willing to fight corruption and preserve freedom. We found that in Donald Trump. He is our voice. You see, it's not a cult. It's a revolution. Make America Great Again!

an ACT policy trained on the 100 episodes I posted earlier. This is the behavior learned after 40k steps from those episodes. The robot picks the object up on 10 out of 20 attempts. Training this robot to pick up stuff in your room is as easy as playing a video game.

Recording 100 or so episodes of stringman picking up an object with a new action space. You can tele-operate it just like the #lerobot SO-101 and train your own policies, but with whole-room reach. $1000 and shipping now in the US. neufangled.com

@StopAntisemites Honk Honk

Braden, FL - notice the “109 … 110”? It’s a white supremacist dog whistle referencing the antisemitic claim that Jews were expelled from 109 countries, implying the U.S. should be the 110th. Add in the Jewish Star of David imagery and the smear equating Zionists (ie Jews) with pedophilia, and the antisemitic messaging becomes quite explicit.

@Layton_Gott My dad said "it doesn't matter what you learn first, there's enough time in life to learn everything"

Learn to code first, then use AI? Or Start with AI, learn as you go? Which is better?

@ScottPresler @RepFine Yes, other than Thomas Massie and maybe MTG, every member of Congress deserves to be hanged.

@RepFine Thank you for making this public. Americans, how does it make you feel that the Senate is going on vacation & refusing to pass legislation that 84% of you agree upon?

Looks like Leader John Thune is on his way out of town with his private escort, as the SAVE America Act gets left behind. This is very disappointing. I am willing to stay in Washington as long as it takes to get the job done.

@NickBuilds11 I feel like I've probably done maybe 4 to 10x the amount of work of a cool project by now so I guess I only have a bit more to go.

Making a consumer product is infinitely more difficult then building a cool project. The engineering effort required is likely 100x minimum

Active stabilization using the new anchors

@JacklouisP Every customer I have interviewed is absolutely disgusted with services and refuses to sign up for another one. They see a robot as a solution to this problem. Like buying a slave instead of paying an employee.

VCs push founders toward Robots-as-a-Service because recurring revenue pattern-matches to software. But business models exist to reduce friction with customers, not please investors. Customer buys capex? Sell assets. Customer budgets for labour? RaaS works.

@utk7arsh Just general intelligence. Skills are like the sprinkles on an ice cream.

Robotics startups: what skills are you looking for in interns at this time? Would love to chat :)