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Humanoid Scott

@GoingBallistic5

Diary of quotidian musings about the humanoid botanical garden Robotics Research Diligence Director @ https://t.co/lTf3AThZpp All opinions are my own

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Humanoid Scott@GoingBallistic5·
It's All in the Hips Can we learn anything from the evolution of hip kinematics in humanoid bots? Is there a growing consensus of the optimal design? Yes. And there is data to prove it. First, a primer on Hip Kinematics 🧵
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Humanoid Scott@GoingBallistic5·
@humanoidsdaily I thought it would be obvious. But most people need 3 tries and a bunch of hints.
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Humanoid Scott@GoingBallistic5·
After 40 years, I am retiring from the field And moving into the front office During my tenure, I met some of the sharpest people in the field. Yet robotics still crawled forward. Not because of them — but because we desperately needed more like them But this is changing The new crop of talent is amazing; hence I can now be more effective in the front office than on the playing field This is why I joined RoboStrategy as Robotics Research Diligence Director: so I can help propel the dawn of physical intelligence through strategic investments (For informational purposes only. Not investment advice.) ][
RoboStrategy@RoboStrategy

BREAKING: Robotics Research Diligence Director (R2D2) Scott Walter, PhD (@goingballistic5) has been signed by RoboStrategy

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Tommaso Gritti
Tommaso Gritti@TommasoGritti·
@GoingBallistic5 Congrats Scott, very much looking forward to keep hearing your deep dives, 🍿 are ready for any video! 👏
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Humanoid Scott@GoingBallistic5·
@evanbeard @Rewkang ][ lore. On the Uber ride to the airport from Standard Bots is when Andrew and I came up with my official title
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Humanoid Scott@GoingBallistic5·
@evanbeard @Rewkang Evan, it was a pleasure joining Andrew for that trip on super short notice. The streets had barely been cleared from the NYC blizzard. But it was worth it to see that Standard Bots is the real deal bending real steel to build robots in the USA! ][
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Evan Beard
Evan Beard@evanbeard·
Excited to see this. I’ve talked to hundreds of venture investors over the years, and @Rewkang is one of the most technical robotics investors I’ve met. He deeply understands the market and our products — actually doing the work to fly to our facility, spending time using our robots, and finding and visiting our customers. He’s one of very few investors with whom I’ve discussed model architectures and debated research papers. That technical depth doesn’t just help him make better investment decisions; it makes him a genuinely more useful partner to founders.
Andrew Kang@Rewkang

Proud to announce my position as CEO of @RoboStrategy. When I initially started looking into investing in robotics 2 years ago most VCs I consulted with recommended not to invest in the space. Robotics companies at this time did not have an easy time raising capital. The industry didn’t have a track record of big venture winners, was perceived to be challenging for a variety of reasons, and was not well understood. But it was clear to me that the rate of acceleration of physical AI development would dramatically change the industry. I invested $19m into FigureAI as my first investment. I believed it was a question of when, not if we could imbue machines around the world with physical intelligence. To accomplish this, the industry would need a tremendous amount of capital to grow, and also an investment firm that deeply understood the needs of robotics/physical AI companies so that it could build a platform to better support them. It will take hundreds of billions to capitalize the mechanized future meaning there is a big gap in the market. We decided we wanted to fill it. Previously, Mechanism Capital had never taken outside capital, but to do this at the scale I envision, I would need to do so. However, the private markets don’t have that scale. The public markets do, and it was clear that there is and likely will be tremendous appetite for public market investors to participate in the immense value creation happening in AI & robotics that only private market investors currently have the privilege of accessing. The explosive growth of AI companies is a precursor of what will happen in physical AI. So in 2025, we founded RoboStrategy and a year later, we took it public on Nasdaq. Throughout this year, we’ve assembled a great portfolio, started leading rounds of some amazing companies, and have built the foundation to be ready to scale to the next level after going public. We look different from a traditional VC firm in ways that founders appreciate. Our structure as a closed end fund means our capital is permanent - no fund life meaning we can invest with extremely long time horizons. Our investment firm also of course needs to have deep industry and research experience so that it can make the best risk reward optimized investment decisions. In the last year, we’ve brought on some truly exceptional robotics industry veterans who have previously served for decades as founders/operators. Many founders we talk to consider us as the most sophisticated venture capital firm they’ve talked to and we only intend to grow our expertise in the industry. RoboStrategy’s success depends on our ability to distribute the fund and capture maximal mindshare. This plays to our team’s strength in digital marketing and social media. We’re building a special marketing engine that serves as an attention amplifier for both us and our founders so that our products and stories can reach more people. A source of inspiration for our fund structure, Strategy (MSTR) raised tens of billions from public capital markets to invest in Bitcoin. I believe robotics will be a much larger industry than Bitcoin and the asset class is orders of magnitude less accessible. We are aiming to raise more and not only become the largest robotics investor globally, but also one of the largest venture capital funds in the world. Venture capital has traditionally been restricted to a limited group of investors. We are changing the paradigm and bringing it to the rest of the world. Be sure to follow @RoboStrategy. Job’s not finished.

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randomhamlife
randomhamlife@rAndOmHaMlifE·
@GoingBallistic5 Congratulations, Scott! Thank you for the incredible reporting and insights into a field, which is about to change humanity forever. With all your free time, we’re expecting even more in depth videos. 🥳😅🤖🦾🦿
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Marc Weinstein
Marc Weinstein@WarcMeinstein·
Proud to announce my position as COO of @RoboStrategy After two years of building, I'm proud to share that I'm Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of RoboStrategy, a NASDAQ-listed (Ticker: $BOT ) investment company built around a single conviction: robotics and physical AI will be THE defining industrial platform shift of the next two decades, and the existing capital structures are inadequate to fund it. Private markets are too small. Traditional venture funds are too short-dated. Public market investors, who will ultimately own most of this value, have been largely locked out of the private-stage opportunity set. RoboStrategy is built to close that gap. What's different about our model? Permanent capital. As a closed-end fund, we can underwrite founders on 10 to 20 year horizons rather than 7-year cycles. Public market access. Ordinary investors get exposure to leading private robotics and physical AI companies, including Figure AI, Apptronik, Dyna, and Path Robotics. Industry depth. We've built the investment platform around long-tenured robotics operators, researchers, and founders. The bar for technical sophistication is high. Distribution as a competency. Most investment firms underinvest in storytelling. We treat it as a flywheel, both for the fund and for the founders we back. As COO, I lead the operating side of that thesis: the team, the financial and control infrastructure, the capital markets engine, and the platform our portfolio companies rely on as they scale. I also sit on the Investment Committee and will continue to source opportunities for the fund. The mechanization of the physical world is going to require hundreds of billions of dollars of patient capital. We intend to be the leading vehicle for it. Follow @RoboStrategy to track the build. More to come ][
RoboStrategy@RoboStrategy

BOT: Public Market Access to Private Robotics Companies Introducing RoboStrategy: RoboStrategy, Inc. (Nasdaq: BOT) is a closed-end management investment company providing concentrated exposure to robotics and physical AI. The fund is designed to give public market investors exposure to a portfolio that aims to include the most promising private, pre-IPO, and public robotics and physical AI companies. It bridges a structural gap between where robotics innovation is occurring (largely in private markets) and where most investors can access exposure (public markets). The fund seeks to provide investors with access to a sector that has traditionally been limited to venture capital, and aims to provide exposure to companies that may stay private for longer. -- The Core Insight We believe the robotics industry is at an inflection point, with physical AI and robotics increasingly being applied to labor-constrained global industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and services. According to the International Labor Association, labor accounts for approximately 52% of global GDP.¹ According to Statista, global GDP in 2025 was $118T.² This represents an implied global labor market size of roughly $60T. At the same time, this labor base is increasingly constrained: Korn Ferry projects a global shortage of 85.2 million skilled workers by 2030, including a 7.9 million worker deficit in manufacturing alone.³ Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute estimate the US could need 3.8 million new manufacturing workers by 2033, with 1.9 million of those roles at risk of going unfilled.⁴ Physical AI and robotics are emerging as a primary means of closing that gap. While public markets currently offer indirect exposure to robotics through diversified technology companies, much of the value creation is occurring in private companies that remain inaccessible to most investors. -- Portfolio Focus The portfolio focuses on what the fund believes are category-defining robotics and physical artificial intelligence innovators, including Figure AI, Apptronik, Dyna Robotics, Standard Bots, Dexmate, and other pioneers advancing autonomous systems, machine perception, and human-machine collaboration. The managers of the fund seek to optimize returns by actively managing the portfolio and continuing to make new investments in leading private robotics companies. -- The Ambition The fund's long-term goal is to grow into a significant public-market vehicle for robotics investing, providing public-market access to private innovation in the sector. -- Footnotes & Disclosure: ¹ International Labour Organization, World Employment and Social Outlook: May 2025 Update. ilo.org/sites/default/… ² Statista, Gross domestic product (GDP) in current prices worldwide. statista.com/statistics/268… ³ Korn Ferry, Future of Work: The Global Talent Crunch. kornferry.com/about-us/press… ⁴ Deloitte & The Manufacturing Institute, Taking charge: Manufacturers support growth with active workforce strategies, April 2024. www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/ab… RoboStrategy, Inc. (Nasdaq: BOT) is a closed-end fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or an offer to buy or sell securities. Investing involves substantial risks, including possible loss of principal. The fund invests in robotics, physical AI, emerging technologies, and private companies, which may involve heightened volatility, limited liquidity, valuation uncertainty, and concentration risk. References to portfolio companies are illustrative only, do not represent all investments made by the fund, and are not investment recommendations. Portfolio holdings are subject to change. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. See the prospectus and SEC filings for additional information.

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Humanoid Scott
Humanoid Scott@GoingBallistic5·
@stalmico I have been a reverse engineer for 40 years. Making digital twins of other people's robots and equipment for simulation. Seems natural to do the same thing for startup robotics companies. As a roboticist I Iike your 'pivot' reference. You couldn't have articulated it better.😉
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RoboStrategy
RoboStrategy@RoboStrategy·
BREAKING: Robotics Research Diligence Director (R2D2) Scott Walter, PhD (@goingballistic5) has been signed by RoboStrategy
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