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@johnfurr538500 We can definitely meet

@BaslyAsma I'm in the Boston area, but not planning to make the conference! Enjoy!

I just wrapped ~200 robotics peer conversations in SF. Now I’m bringing that same energy to Boston for #RoboticsSummit this week. Who should I meet to make Boston as productive? Hardware hackers, humanoid teams, automation founders, researchers 🤖 Hit me up!!

@pratiksharda2 perfect

@BaslyAsma Let’s catchup at the summit

@cixliv @REK @fdotinc See you there

@astridwilde1 Which part

@BaslyAsma bullish

We've been heads down in the deployment layer for a while now, working through the exact friction points between hardware and software that most teams hit when trying to get robots into real environments. If you're running into those walls, we'd love to chat and help you work through them.

@arian_ghashghai we've shifted our focus toward exactly this, the deployment gap is real. Businesses want robots today but the setup, integration, and maintenance layer is completely missing. happy to share what we're building

robotics is inherently about hardware, however I'm meeting more and more founders who want to find a software (or just non-hardware) business to build for robotics. thoughts: > software is behind hardware (so this realization is correct, but not unique), and "robot brain" is indeed a hard problem to solve (further out than most think). that being said, I don't think solving robot intelligence as a company that is neither 1) collecting data (either by robot deployment, or other means) nor 2) a true research company like PI makes a lot of sense > Selling dev tools to robotics companies is a horrible business idea right now (sounds smart, but not enough robot deployments + nowhere near the #1 pain point) > the most obvious non-hardware opportunity is in the deployment gap. specifically, imo the demand for businesses in manual labor that want to try robotic solutions *today* I believe is much greater than most people realize, however no robot (humanoid to service bot) is ready to work out of the box (i.e. someone needs to come set them up, teleop, maintain etc). if I were thinking about a business, I would think about doing something that helps old-school, regular-ass businesses put robots into their space tl;dr build stuff that actively puts more robots into the world

@JamesFarha @arian_ghashghai We're doing exactly this, would love to chat and help you expose those hardware/software friction points faster

Very high probability that the software problems get solved by hardware people because they need to solve them anyway (we are doing this with underwater autonomy). Building the software without exposure to the hardware’s issues will be very challenging. It also lacks the host hardware and attendant distribution.

Btw we were demoing our reliability platform for robotics deployments (Compatible with Isaac Sim) If you’re deploying robots, come talk to us. We can save you hours (or days) of iteration

> Pull up to Nvidia HQ for a small meeting > 10 mins in Jensen walks by > mfw

@RajaGili He was busy, going to a meeting

@BaslyAsma Was he happy or nervous?

@Andrey__HQ That’s the mindset 😂

@BaslyAsma what an honor for him to have met you

@EyeDual Yes haha

@BaslyAsma But still a leather one?

@kirk_zh Literally

@BaslyAsma When the final boss casually walks past your meeting room.

@mirojurcevic He was handing out 5090s

@BaslyAsma Was he handing out bowls of Ramen ?

@dealchatco I need the deal

@BaslyAsma Those surprise Jensen sightings hit different 😂 The ultimate flex - just casually running into the man himself mid-meeting Hope you got a pic for the timeline!

@whisperingcandl I don’t operate that way

@ClaraChengGo Thanks Clara

@BaslyAsma you both look amazing! 🤩

@GreyforgeLabs Soon to be

@BaslyAsma two legends

@chinsanity Humble

@BaslyAsma Nice. How is he like?