Freddie Filz
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Freddie Filz
@fredfilz
Building autonomous construction vehicles | Prev. founder @ https://t.co/xe3ZvjXy8n ($30m+ revenue, fastest modular construction startup ever) | @uniofoxford cs grad



Construction is facing labor shortages and productivity stagnation. The startup Crewline wants to solve those problems with autonomous machinery. f-st.co/9N24XpW









robotics labs and startups list draft - which ones am i missing, and which categorizations are terrible and need updating? labs - pi (most people felt like this was the best team on the research side. also more of a general foundation model company, very ambitious.) - also tesla (but xai is making the models?) - gdm robotics - uma - nvidia robotics - intrinsic - rai institute, kind of - genesis ai - general intuition - generalist - dyna - skild ai for science incl lab automation - periodic labs - prometheus - lila sciences - futurehouse (tbd) - medra industrial - halcyon - boston dynamics (hyundai) - unitree - agibot - ubtech - amazon robotics - also tesla - also dyna - dynatronics - stealth - sanctuary - agility - covariant (acq) - humanoid - figure - apptronik robots for homes - 1x - also tesla - prosper - sunday - matic - bot company product - orchard robotics (farming) - path ai (manufacturing) - ironsite (construction) different axes to look at robotics labs - precustomer vs post customer - manufacturing vs home automation vs something else - specialist vs generalist - simulation training vs real world training - lab vs product focused thanks to friends who suggested companies and ways to improve organizations which am i missing, and which categorizations need updating

Does anybody know of any twitter gcs where people are regularly reading robotics papers? Would love to be added, and if that doesn't exist, then I'll make it tomorrow.











If you are in the UK 🇬🇧 & you are under 25 👨🎓 & you have been thinking about visiting Silicon Valley 🛣️ I would love to help you make it happen I’ll go: ✈️ 50:50 on flights & accommodation for a month You just: Explore Silicon Valley & tell me what you see DM if keen



Venture funds that choose to back “slop startups” like this and other startups with questionable morals (Cluely, gambling apps, goonbots etc.) should know that mission-driven founders take note of this and seriously discount that firms reputation. There is something deeply nihilistic about slop startups. The founders and investors that back them are implicitly saying “Nothing really matters. We should just try to make money even if it means producing complete slop or encouraging sin.” This infuriates mission-driven founders and causes a profound sense of disgust that’s hard to get past when we consider who we want to work with.


I don’t know who needs to hear this, but 99% of the money VCs invest isn’t theirs. General partners usually commit 1–2% of a fund and the other 98-99% comes from pension funds, endowments, HNWs and institutions spread across ~30+ bets per fund. Their model works if 10% of those bets crush it and the rest are written off with a shrug. As a founder, you don’t get that luxury. You have one bet, one shot, one life tied to the outcome. I wish someone told me this, so maybe it's helpful to one person out there as their navigating their founder journey. I'm rooting for you.




