Tom Baron

5 years cancer free. Stage IV, hospice, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, over 48 hours under the knife, and I wouldn’t change a single fucking thing.

Great point from ⁦@jacobhelberg⁩ on ⁦@JTLonsdale⁩ podcast: rebuilding American industrial capacity means providing American manufacturers with world-class components that enable them to be globally competitive. Bullish on the long-standing US-Philippines alliance!

Pushing hardware to customers unlocks a whole new kind of dopamine

Soon.

commercial aviation is overdue for a new form factor the core problem is that flying has improved technically while degrading experientially bullish on rebuilding planes from first principles!

North Carolina scored the largest manufacturing investment in the state's history at $4.6B. JezZero is breaking ground on the first greenfield large-aircraft production facility built in the United States in a generation. The Z4 blended-wing-body (BWB) is the first clean-sheet American commercial aircraft program in 15 years. The 8 million sqft facility will employ 14,500 direct, high-wage aerospace workers. Open your eyes 🇺🇸

LTV:CAC is not often thought of as a hardware metric, but it can be with the right enabling tech and operational approach 👀

@CMochen @pravardh_mishra @cbames timely lol

There’s a decent chance we end up watching autonomous robotic combat leagues the same way we watch F1. Teams competing on hardware, autonomy stack, comms resilience, energy systems, manufacturing, etc. Robotic war games. I’d watch that. Hell yeah.

This is another level of wholesomeness

The site will transform the planned Economic Security Zone into allied manufacturing infrastructure that secures critical supply chains. From bilateral projects to a genuine industrial system spanning continents. Pax Silica delivering results. Read @UnderSecE's remarks: state.gov/releases/under…

Did someone say robots?

Great to see more from the robotics field on useful autonomous capability. Our last generation robot, OP0, ran a full autonomous shift of bulk packing at a real customer warehouse back in February. More public proof raises the bar for everyone.

He who controls the rotating machinery, controls the universe

As we’re perfecting the enabling physics behind our physical models one thing must remain extremely clear - The critical item is who controls the physical infrastructure layer enabled by the innovation. This is an ecosystem problem that must overcome a minefield of local maxima constrained by legacy process and capability. Physical robotics infrastructure was subsidized away from the west, from the mine to the product platform, starting in the 90’s. The future of Western physical AI will largely depend on if we are able to take this infrastructure back. It is necessary that we combine both strategic, cost-optimized manufacturing and software innovation embedded across the stack (design to delivery) to close the gap that has opened the past 30 years. This is the problem that must be solved. This is commercial warfare at the highest level.

Quasi-direct-drive-actuator generated in 5 minutes with our parametric physics based AI model. Full stack motor and gearbox design, simulation stack, BOM, & performance specifications. This is looped in with our manufacturing + test stack to recursively feed our model with real world results. Every motor & actuator we make makes the next one better and faster. This is how we close the gap with China. Design faster and build smarter.

The interface between AI and the real world is robotics. It's critical that we own the infrastructure building the physical reality. It really is a matter of sovereignty.

Western civilization is awesome, actually

Firestorm is proud to announce an $82M Series B raise, led by @WashingHarbour. This funding will support our transition to scaled production and expanded fielding across operational theaters for the @DeptofWar. Press release: accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/ae…

The message is clear, Nigeria will not sit idle by, Terra will help build the sovereign military-industrial complex needed to win the war on terror

Great to join @EdLudlow on @technology to discuss the Trump Administration’s economic statecraft strategy, the security of our supply chains, and our special economic partnership with the Philippines.