Engineer. Founder @remoroolabs. Previously built self-driving cars and farming robots. Still moving.

Joined January 2010
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Right now, getting a robot to do one complex task takes an army of people. Watching it. Correcting it, Labeling everything. Thousands of hours. not any more introducing a new Remoroo capability: autonomous data collection from a single prompt.
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Lots of people are entering robotics by skipping the foundations. The pitch is that world models understand physics so you don't need them. Robot physics was solved decades ago. Calibration, motion planning, collision avoidance. Known quantities, not open research. I get the appeal. Train one model, let it handle calibration, motion, collisions, and the task itself. But watch the demos these teams ship. Autonomous footage played back at 4-10x. That's not a hardware limit. That's a team without foundations. Strong foundations allow you to show your videos at 1x proudly.
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most robot videos you see are a human in a headset driving from the next room. this isn't. you give it a task, it plans the grasps, runs them, and records every frame itself. that's the whole loop. same run as last week, this time from the robot's own cameras 👇
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Good one.
SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models. For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon. We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities
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Everyone wants the robot to look like a person. The winner may look like the job itself.
The Eno Genesis launch is pretty 🔥 No head. No face. Zero exposed cables. Just locked in on pure function: Fast Facts • Unmatched Dexterity: 22-DOF hands precise enough to handle sticky tape and lab equipment. • Radical Transparency: A chest screen displays the robot's real-time reasoning before it acts. • Brainpower: Powered by the GENE foundation model. Two thoughts on this 1. I think is the start of reimagining form factor 2. This is just the beginning of “robot labs” rolling out humanoids. Expect many more to come even if they’ve positioned themselves differently publicly prior.
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We're building robots that teach themselves new tasks overnight. They try, learn from every attempt, and prove it on real hardware. First the robot has to be set up. Months of work for most teams. Remoroo Studio does it in an afternoon, visually. Coming soon
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I’ve been burned multiple times by this advice. But it’s still the correct way to build for the long term. Work on something fun, insanely ambitious, and hard enough that most people won’t stick with it. That’s the greatest moat.
What you work on has never been more important. Make sure it’s fun. Make sure it’s insanely ambitious. That’s the greatest moat.
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Historically, AI “World Models” didn’t start in 2018, they started in 1990. Jürgen Schmidhuber laid the blueprint in 1990, but David Ha and Schmidhuber’s 2018 paper showed it could scale to visual pixels, letting AI plan inside its own “dreams.” 1990 blueprint: people.idsia.ch/~juergen/wor… Full 2018 paper: arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122 Interactive project: worldmodels.github.io/
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One VC dragged us through process for months. Meeting after meeting, the conditions kept changing. Close the team gap. Add industry expertise. Find a founder-level hire. Bring a lead investor. Get someone else to validate the market. Eventually I pushed for a clear yes or no. He replied with a long email saying I was “stressed,” “in a hurry,” and had “aggressively pushed via emails and WhatsApp and calls.” That was the actual rejection. Not just “we’re passing.” But also: how dare you ask.
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If people are honest on X, “build something people want” becomes a reading comprehension test.
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Right now, getting a robot to do one complex task takes an army of people. Watching it. Correcting it, Labeling everything. Thousands of hours. not any more introducing a new Remoroo capability: autonomous data collection from a single prompt.
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What if there’s a 4th layer almost no one is collecting? Not human video. Not simulation. Not teleop. The layer an 8-month-old child is learning from: Real interaction with the world. Try. Fail. Adjust. Try again. Robots won’t get smart by watching alone. They need experience.
The embodied AI industry has one huge problem: Data. Robots need massive amounts of real-world experience to learn how to move, interact, and complete tasks safely. To solve this, the industry is building a 3-layer “Data Pyramid”: 1️⃣ Real Robot Data Humans control real robots while every movement, camera feed, and sensor signal is recorded. Pros: This is the best and most accurate data for training robots in the real world. Cons: Very expensive and slow to collect because it needs physical robots, workers, and large facilities. This is why companies like Agibot (Zhiyuan) are building large robot data collection centers in China. 2️⃣ Simulation Data Robots train inside virtual worlds and physics engines. Pros: Cheap to scale. Robots can practice millions of situations safely and quickly. Cons: What works in simulation often fails in real life because reality is much more messy and unpredictable. This is the path NVIDIA is investing heavily in. 3️⃣ Internet & Human Video The internet already has billions of hours of humans doing everyday tasks. Pros: Huge amount of cheap data. Helps AI understand space, movement, and human behavior. Cons: Videos show what humans do, but not the exact force, pressure, or motor control needed to copy the action. Companies like Figure AI, Physical Intelligence, Apple, and NVIDIA are now pushing hard into this area. No company will win using only one layer. The future belongs to those who can combine all three especially whoever turns everyday human video into useful robotic training data at scale.
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Great work. But this is not how robots should learn. Imitation learning is a starting point, not the destination. Robots, like humans, need to learn from experience. Otherwise they’ll keep copying instead of understanding.
NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T humanoid (built on Unitree H2 Jetson Thor) needs one thing to learn: real human behavior. PrismaX solves it with VR teleop — put on a headset, control the robot like you're inside it, and every move becomes training data. control → data → training, all in one loop. wild pipeline.
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Why are people surprised by this? VLAs don’t generalize much beyond the task distribution they were trained on. And by “task,” I mean the exact setup, objects, motions, environment, and failure modes.
This makes me doubt the 90% success rate that every VLA-based policies claim I truly respect all the work behind public demos, and especially from hardware companies But from what I saw at #ICRA , even pick-and-place is still challenging for VLAs and requires human-in-the-loop
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If these devices need daily charging, they’ll become desk ornaments fast.
Something tells me we're going to see a lot more of these glossy black oval devices this year.
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Hubert is the real deal. Ignore his insight at your own peril.
This is how I’ve run my life btw. I stayed in pc gaming for 14 years because that’s what I cared about and skipped mobile and cloud hype waves. I’ve joined @fdotinc because I love helping others founders and i get a lot of joy from that.
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4 people. 1 robot. 1 GPU. 2.5 hours. That’s what it took a Berkeley lab to teach a robot to whip a single block out of a Jenga tower at 100% success, assemble a motherboard, build an IKEA shelf, and route a timing belt. 20–30 demonstrations. Not 200. Not 2,000. The baselines they beat had 10× the data and finished at 49.7%. Meanwhile $3.1B went into humanoid teleop fleets in six months. If a 4-person team one Franka can clear industrial -tolerance assembly in an afternoon, what is the rest of the field’s budget actually buying?
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Robotics has a deadlock nobody's pricing. Can't deploy robots at scale without intelligence. Can't build the intelligence without data from large-scale deployment. The data only comes from the thing the data is supposed to enable. $3.1B went into humanoids in H1 2025 - more than the prior 14 years combined. Most of it buys hardware and operators to grind out teleop data. But a robot rollout isn't an H100. You can't run 10,000 of them in parallel in a datacenter overnight. Each one is physical, slow, and gone after it happens. Which makes the cost-per-experiment the whole game. Cut it and you've out-leveraged a balance sheet you'll never match.
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31 authors on the GPT-3 paper. 278 on GPT-4. Everyone benchmarked OpenAI on parameters. The thing that actually 9x'd was the humans. Every one of those 247 new names is a person doing the work that doesn't show up in a scaling law: designing RL environments, curating data, running ablations, picking which experiments to kill. That's the moat. Not the GPUs. The hands doing the experiments the GPUs run.
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