Barrett Ames

"Hardware is hard" was the warning, and now it's the moat.

@jimbelosic is also a nice guy and a good human.

@ChenTessler @levelsio This is the way.

@levelsio Easy. Buy a humanoid. Build a window opening task in isaaclab. Train humanoid to open and close windows. Attach CO2 sensor. Problem solved.

I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge You open the window and you wake up from a 6am garbage truck or barking dogs and sunlight You close it, you suffocate in 1200 ppl at 5am I guess you really need some mini tube in your wall with a vent that opens and closed based on internal CO2 but how do I build that?

@RyanWright84 @NumanThabit @Rainmaker1973 These are cool, Ive seen them used in explosive environments.

@NumanThabit @Rainmaker1973 @cbames Dam that’s awesome I wonder how it would handle intense loads 🕴️

Magnetically assisted gears work with no mechanical contact. The input shaft never touches the output shaft unless the gear box is overloaded [📹 Neo-Dyne]

@deCamaret What size fits them?

Nice shoes mate! Anyone with a Unitree G1 I strongly recommend shoes. Improves noise levels by +70%, but ~20% less stable.

@DeltaClimbs Ya, I made this comment before seeing the shoot.

@cbames Not all trajectories are the same...

Stores explosives in space can deliver anywhere and anytime. Hell yeah. I for one welcome our space robot explosives overlords.

@_baldtires So many cars about to be built

@hunterlanier Also, nicotine.

Had a good discussion with someone today about why the literature and overall vibes from Apollo era NASA feels so different compared to now. Two things: 1. The average age of a NASA engineer during the Apollo era was 28 2. Most of them were first generation engineers who didn’t really have the engineering background So you take a bunch of 21-32 year olds who grew up on a farm, and now you tell them we are going to do something nobody’s ever done before. It leads to things being as simplified as they need to be. There is enough duct-tape work that things actually get done. Society has forced us into a evermore theoretical world where we have forgotten what it feels like to beat the puzzle pieces into place with a hammer. This is why many of the textbooks from this time period are actually very pleasant to read through. They were often written by or for someone who had nothing but outside life experience, trying to understand it. Our generation is taking Artemis back to the moon and also Mars in the same way this generation did. I think we have a lot to learn from how they did things, and I’m glad to see a return to this type of engineering. I can’t help but think about how many projects I didn’t finish because I couldn’t do them well enough to my standards in my head, and I should have just wrapped the thing in duct-tape and crossed the finish line

Did y'all not already do this for whatever crazy intense compute you were doing before? My goal is to burn my CPU out from over use. Idle CPUs work for the devil.

@tommypotter_ You seem like a nice guy Tommy.

If i can help founders: - raise a round - hire phenomenal people - land customers - or even realize they *are* a founder That’s the kind of fulfillment I live for DM if I can help

Factories could be filled with these, that's an amazing price, and without legs its less of a hazard. Could be a great sparring partner for some @rek bots.

The over temperature warning on the G1 is so dystopian.

@chris_j_paxton Mirror neurons!

Something will always make me uncomfortable about this style of testing even if its silly

@lasermatts whenever you want buddy.

@cbames when can I come take a tour?

This will become the center of the humanoid galaxy.

@mweinbach The wood panelled room is so NASA.

This packaging is so good wtf

@aohiroshi Tokyo has to happen, I need the food.

@cbames Same here—can’t wait! Let’s make the Tokyo store happen.

ロボットのリアル店舗がアメリカに出店予定。昼間はレンタルから修理、夜はロボットファイト！行きたい！

@MountsOwen Long trip from Mars, but it'll be worth it.

Looks like I need to go to SF this summer.

@cristi4nov4lli I already glow in the dark.

it's cool to have a place where all the idiots are together. we should spray them with some shit that glows in the dark

@0xJiuJitsuJerry @REK You're going to have to teach me BJJ so I can teach the bots.

Fantastic news! 🦾🛠🤖 @REK team always shipping 🚢 🥋 Soon in #SanFrancisco