Paul Ruiz

Finally time to bottle the peach wine I started at Christmas! Another month in the bottles and it should be ready.

With prices going up, I've already started beans, peas, squashes, tomatoes, various peppers, tons of potatoes, herbs, spinach+leafy greens, and random stuff to go with the peach, cherry, serviceberry, rhubarb, and raspberry in the yard. Best case sharing a lot with neighbors.

Mama bird was yelling at me while I was doing some work out here, so I checked where there was a nest last year. Quite a few eggs this year, so that's exciting.

Finally added Gemini Live to @pollenrobotics Reachy Mini demo, and it makes for such a fun demo 🤖💖 ּ- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live for realtime voice & vision - Grounding with Google Search - Tool use for moves - Lyria 3 for music generation

Watched an overview of tomorrow's NASA mission with Ms 2. She said "I want do like this" when they were showing clips of astronauts on a space walk. Going to hype the Hell out of the launch with her tomorrow with "wow isn't that so cool!?" and snacks. I'm super excited for it all

@puf @sundarpichai Same here.

@sundarpichai 🥺

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it. To say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.

Time to build general-purpose robots, on hardware made in SF We are bringing @NASA @GoogleDeepMind @scale_AI and more at @ycombinator for a general-purpose robotics hackathon Each team will have a robot and compete across all Al modalities to make the coolest AI project ⬇️

This year as a part of the Colorado Master Gardener program, I took over seven neglected apple trees at an open space/park near home. Most of the weekend was research into care, trimming dead wood, removing dried fruit, watering, and planning real pruning+fertilizer <3

I really dug this article a16z.news/p/robotics-nee…

Just ordered a SEEED Studio Meshtastic node for outside and I'm so ready to hook up a device that runs Gemma to see how I can get my own offline remote LLM going. seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Solar…

🚨 BREAKING: Amazon has officially acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, the startup behind the soft-bodied Sprout humanoid. While Amazon has aggressively pursued automation in its fulfillment centers, this acquisition signals a massive escalation in the race for the consumer home market. Sprout is a bipedal robot designed specifically for the "messy reality" of shared human spaces.

Google DeepMind 🤝 Agile Robots Our new research partnership will integrate the Gemini foundation models with their hardware to help build the next generation of more helpful and useful robots. Find out more → goo.gle/4lKu7de

@ed0henderson @LeRobotHF What's your USB setup look like? I have this many arms as well but haven't set them up like this yet :P

VLAs may scale better but its a hell of a lot less fun... Thanks @LeRobotHF ! 😆 #physicalAI #embodiedAI #robotics #lerobot

Applications closing soon! Apply by March 25th 👇

This is the challenge in robotics. Software had AWS, Stripe, GitHub and a whole bunch of shared infrastructure that let everyone build on the same foundation. Robotics has none of that. Every team rebuilds everything from scratch. That's part of why it's so fragmented.

Damn right we did

@theonlyAyo @0xnemala @nikmel2803 @tnkrdotai Also interested. I was just looking into this the other day but sourcing parts US side from their BoM was a pain so it got put on hold.

@0xnemala @nikmel2803 @tnkrdotai We have some available for early adopters, ships before the end of the month. Interested? I’ll send you a DM

Wrapping up the Open Duck build with @nikmel2803 and all I can say is, if you want to get into robotics this is a perfect starting point. Project cuts across Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Sim2Real Learning. More to come soon @tnkrdotai

The driveway for my mountain lot is done and I'm *stoked.*

@PNY_Pro @NVIDIAGTC @nvidia I want to use a spark for building some agentic workflows in robotics

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