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a world devoid of work is a world devoid of purpose. AI should not replace us, it should amplify our abilities and let us do more. -AI on its own is not very good -Humans on their own are pretty good -Humans + AI = pretty much unlimited productivity That's where we're going. Enough of this dystopian crap. Let's work together to build a world that we want to get old in, and that we want our children to grow up into. We can do better.

@jobsbygeorge hello

say hello if you love manufacturing, reindustrialization, and America

@sethbannon if everything worked out well what would be the fun in that?

One thing you find in the story of every great founder throughout history: They occasionally took big swings that didn't work. Jobs with the Lisa. Bezos with the Fire phone. Akio Morita with Betamax. Page and Brin with Google Glass. Ti Morse with the Elon interview set.

@Abhindas1 putting together his first SO-101 and thinks he's ready to make the next FANUC lol

Spent 10 minutes with a new robotics founder. Now I believe in the Dunning-Kruger effect

@paulg or you can balance the two in parallel; a precise and small idea that scales to a far grander vision

An initial startup idea can't usually be both grand and precise. In practice they're usually either grand and vague or precise and small. Precise and small is better. You know who your initial users are, and you expand outward. With grand and vague you can't even get started.

@ti_morse the world only remembers when you win but we will remember this never give in

Yesterday, we tore down Set II I appreciate everyone who came out of the woodwork to try to help me make this happen. I will remember. Onward. 🏴‍☠️

@antoinemarcel what in the sunday is this

Finally working :) The 1st home robot that's really easy to set up (< 30min for your 1st task), community-driven (if someone teaches it how to grab a beer and bring it to them, it’ll be able to do it too), and low-cost. Shipping 50 units soon. Link below if you want to join the private WhatsApp group.

@tonyzzhao sunday is killing it! keep it up Tony + team :)

why is everyone posting all of a sudden???

@sethbannon Trying to

Imagine if our smartest people competed to solve energy, manufacturing, disease, and science instead of marketing tools, online gambling, and yet another incremental AI product.

@masch_services @SutterlinDan @jimbelosic Yes please I need this

@SutterlinDan @jimbelosic Working on solving the gears problem

When you’re getting something manufactured, what process is the biggest pain? I’ll go first: - heat treating (there’s like one guy who’s good and he’s 6 weeks out) - plating/polishing - assembly (usually gotta do this in-house) - welding (we got you now) - packaging - domestic PCBs/PCBA What else?

@evan_wineland @weaverobotics LFG

Walking the walk

@Scobleizer Nah We can still beat him

@theobot__ It will win you over.

This should put fear into all the other humanoid robot companies. Getting ready for Optimus.

@aaronburnett So cool

i fully expect to live on Mars someday and i don't expect it to suck. these are some early renders of what we expect the Mach33 offices will look like on Mars. These double as nice zoom backgrounds if you find it inspiring to envision yourself in a martian office like i do. feel free to use.

@msefaoruc I’m down

who's building solo in london? thinking of organizing a casual build session at a cafe or coworking space. bring your laptop, work on your own thing, chat during breaks, and meet other builders. anyone interested?

@simonkalouche this is the old hand. completely different system now

Very cool hand BUT using normal machine load and subsystem testing is no where near enough and is building false confidence. Humanoids and robots operating in the wild will fail in a million ways you can’t predict in the lab. Only real world testing at scale exposes the long tail

@radbackwards @pronounced_kyle 🐐🐐

@pronounced_kyle Dar invented ball: applianceretailer.com.au/smeg-ceo-surpr…

There’s a reason I take so much pride in my work. Designing NEO and telling its story is an attempt to do justice to some of the best engineering work in human history. I am so lucky. I am so grateful for all the support.

@TheHumanoidHub this is a massive step up from their previous hand. great work 1X team!!

A stunning piece of engineering!! 1X unveils the new humanoid hand for NEO - 25 degrees of freedom: 22 fully actuated in the fingers and palm, plus 3 at the wrist. - The DoF are distributed anatomically rather than evenly, deliberately biased toward a thumb that genuinely opposes the fingers. - In-house tendon-driven, quasi-direct-drive running low gear ratios of ~5:1 to 15:1 vs the typical 100:1–200:1. - Motors live in the forearm and pull tendons through the wrist. This keeps the hand light and its inertia low while producing high forces. Sensing - All 25 DoF are natively force-controlled and fully backdrivable. Every joint doubles as a force sensor. - Very important, closed-loop proprioception: it always knows its own pose and effort without looking. - Tactile skin across the fingertips and surfaces measuring contact and shear. This helps with adaptive gripping in real time. Safety and durability - IP68 waterproof and food-safe, so it can wash its own hands. - Compliant by construction: the low gear ratios, tendon drive, and low distal inertia let external impacts safely backdrive the fingers. It yields when hit by a hammer or caught in a drawer. - Full finger assemblies validated to millions of cycles. Manufacturing - Deep vertical integration: in-house motors, custom electronics, and tendon systems. - Hundreds built already, with capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year. "An API to the Physical World"

@vadi_ms This is so cool

This is me talking to my computer without making a sound. After just a month of collecting data, our model is already approaching dictation in accuracy. We were surprised to see that it generalizes to unseen participants as well! (1/n)

@zobotics excited to see the video tomorrow!

I hope they show it fully glove off. It really does look like something straight out of a NASA lab.

@PrimeErwin Couldn’t agree more with this

Robotics world will soon realize why 99% of current data vendors are scams. Once that happens, demand for quality and actual robot data will skyrocket. Only the ones positioned accordingly will benefit massively from it.