dhanush baktha

launching @xlogiclabs - dark factories for sheet & tube metal fabrication. we own and manage these factories. our factories run by robots we build in-house. order parts starting TODAY on our website.

@thielfellowship @VictorWBoyd holy shiit congrats @VictorWBoyd!

Welcome 2026 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Victor Boyd: Birmingham, AL - @VictorWBoyd Cavalla is on a mission to get anything anywhere in under 5 hours. Starting by building autonomous forklifts, through to developing hypersonic highways. Samuel Carvalho: Recife, Brazil - @samuelclcc Praso is building the new infrastructure for wholesale commerce — powering procurement, credit, and workflow tools for SMBs across underserved areas in Brazil. Nick Dobroshinsky: Sammamish, WA - @NDobroshinsky EveryTicker is democratizing institutional-grade financial research across the entire U.S. stock market, including the thousands of smaller companies Wall Street ignores. Ishan Gupta: Kanpur, India - @ishangpta Juicebox is building an AI recruiter that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Agents that understand real skills and move hiring from guesswork to true meritocracy. Antoni Kiszka: Strzyżowice, Poland - @antoni_kiszka Derpetual is building the infrastructure to create a market for any asset — with leverage. Milan Lustig: Cold Spring Harbor, NY - @HighPriestOfSWO Opt32 is building modern compute infrastructure to put AI onboard objects in the physical world — from robots to cars and drones. Galen Mead: Chapel Hill, NC - @g413n Standard Intelligence is building aligned general learners, pretraining large models to actively explore and learn from the Internet. Aubrey Niederhoffer: New York, NY - @needaubrey Swoop is building the super app for Africa, starting with food delivery in Nigeria and expanding into financial services across the continent. Harry O'Connor: Cork, Ireland - @HarryOC493 Sentient Machines is a research lab building foundational models for robotics that generalize across tasks and environments. Alex Shieh: Salem, NH - @alexkshieh The Antifraud Company is a fraud bounty hunter defending American taxpayers with AI and investigative journalism. Claire Wang: Los Angeles, CA - @clairebookworm Claire is building biologically accurate simulations of entire nervous systems, starting with C. elegans. Developing a simulated brain that researchers can communicate with helps lay the foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Kyler Wang: Portland, OR - @kylerywang Action is an artificial intelligence company in stealth.

one thing i regret not doing/wish i did as early as possible: vertical integration as much as possible our iteration cycles could've been at least 5x faster

@thejesonlee Just DM'd you!

Any founder looking for a room in SF? I have a room in my founder house in Japantown open starting 17th April. $50M+ has been raised from founders living in the house during their residency.

@AryamanBharat Coimbatore

@dhanuzch Crazy. Based where?

last night we loaded a 20foot truck full of parts for just ONE robot 350+ unique parts - designed, fabricated, treated, machined, assembled, tested, etc can't wait to productize and mass produce it for our factories

@sohamsankaran @GeneralistAI @PopVaxIndia @dmmehta1990 @peteflorence @andyzengineer @E0M We should talk!

Anyone at @GeneralistAI's Boston office willing to chat with my @PopVaxIndia colleague @dmmehta1990 and I tomorrow? We're interested in discussing deploying robot models for wet lab use cases in therapeutics development -- cc @peteflorence @andyzengineer @E0M

@styngdn 🫡

manufacturing startups are rare to find. incredible opportunity for robotics & mech folks

@Abc066084989188 @styngdn Hi, DM me. Your DMs are not open.

@dhanuzch @styngdn I'd be very interested if you need operations guy.

do you want to build a factory? or robots? we're hiring! (in india) we're working with the biggest companies in india. 1x robotics software engineer (full-time) - should've worked on robot perception and know classical robotics and controls 1x mech engineer who's built structures/robots/machines before DM me links/videos to things you've built before.

craziest request for robot we got today: got a request to build a robot that can paint fabricated oil rigs where every part will be 50x40x30 meters in dimension

super excited to know @xlogiclabs is playing a small part in indigenizing a crucial machine and making india more food abundant.

always has been our goal :)

did they change the rule where - even if you do the filings on time, if the bank delays it from their side, *we* have to pay LSF?

his laptop broke. so he started CADing on a phone. GOATed intern @Onshape

@VishakhRanotra it *is* two machines joined together. tandem press brakes

I wasn’t aware that such a massive CNC press brake even existed. It almost seems like it’s two machines joined together.

@YogPanjarale oh sick! @alysha_lobo i remember you covered them - time for an intro :)

@dhanuzch carbine systems is doing some stuff in defense

is there any startup working on laser diodes/collimators/laser sources in India? for cutting, welding, engraving, defense etc? just curious...

three done. tomorrow to the factory that makes one of my favorite motorcycles

@ivishaltejwani wdym?

@dhanuzch Oh perfect wanted to find Indian source for them

nice factory aesthetics