Dave Pitt
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Dave Pitt
@davehpitt
ML @Ultraroboticsco. Hustle like sam, grind like elon, body like dario


A $1,000,000 WORLD RECORD SWIM! Kristian Gkolomeev wins the Men’s 50m Freestyle in 20.81s and takes home $1,000,000 bonus + $250,000 first place prize and reclaims his 50M Freestyle world record.

Enhanced Games athlete in photo is James “The Missile” Magnussen. Australian swimmer with an Olympic silver medal. Said he’d “juice to the gills” if offered $1m to break 50m freestyle record of 20.88. Enhanced Games agreed. This vid of him is most viewed on its YouTube channel and top comment is incredible: “you can see his back from his front”. Absolute tank. 6’6 and will weigh ~250lbs for the swim. For the inaugural Enhanced Games this weekend, Magnussen will also wear a full-body polyurethane super swimming suit that was banned after 2008 Beijing Olympics (he’s been training and doping at a facility in LV).





Now I know why it didn’t feel natural. Two issues: 1. DLS over all 6 joints couples position and orientation. Wrist motions lead to elbow swings. 2. WebXR reports controller pose somewhere at the palm, but you naturally rotate around your wrist. Fixed with Pieper-style decoupling + a 5-sec in-VR wrist-twist calibration.


Our newest model, π0.7, has some interesting emergent capabilities: it can control a new robot to fold shirts for which we had no shirt folding data, figure out how to use an appliance with language-based coaching, and perform a wide range of dexterous tasks all in one model!

Physical Intelligence (@physical_int) is building a foundation model that can control any robot to do any task — what the team describes as the GPT moment for robotics. The company's cross-embodiment approach trains across many different robot platforms, and recent results show tasks being performed zero-shot that last year required hundreds of hours of data collection. In this episode of the @LightconePod , co-founder Quan Vuong (@QuanVng) sat down with @garrytan, @snowmaker, @sdianahu, and @harjtaggar to talk about why robotics is finally ready for its scaling moment, how PI runs its models in the cloud rather than on-device, and the playbook for what Quan sees as a Cambrian explosion of vertical robotics companies. 00:00 — Robotics just got cheaper 00:41 — The GPT moment for robotics 02:24 — Why robots didn’t work before 05:30 — The breakthrough that changed everything 09:12 — The data problem 13:33 — Robots learning without data 15:05 — Robots folding laundry (for real) 22:18 — From engineering problem → ops problem 29:12 — The startup playbook 38:46 — Thousands of robotics startups are coming

Introducing Operator, our newest industrial AI robot built to work, not demo. Operator handles your warehouse's most repetitive tasks: packing, sorting, and kitting. Up to 24 hours a day, with flexibility and consistency that allows businesses to scale quickly. This is what we've been building. ↓ [1/4]




