Ideal advent calendars for hardware engineers

Meet Alesia: the only AI Copilot designed for physical intelligence in restaurants, powered by computer vision. We know restaurant ops aren't numbers on a dashboard as it has unpredictable human dynamics. So we trained her on 20,000 hours of physical computer vision data and trillions of data points. Results: 90% demand prediction accuracy, 50% food waste savings and 30% increase in customer return rate since we launched her as a prototype. The future of restaurants isn’t human vs. machine - it’s human with machine. And for every operator who’s ever closed a shift in tears at 2am: Alesia is just the beginning.

Just dropped 4 @ScalingEurope podcast episodes with: @Thom_Wolf from @huggingface @maltekosub from @parloa_ai @IvanTregear from @KAIKAKU_AI @SelimBenayat fromn @nothing Check them out here: youtube.com/@Scaling-Europe

I think my CTO just became UK's youngest official Chartered Mechanical Engineer at age 24 That's why we win

3 patent filings, 20 granted design rights, and 2500 Onshape commits. Like SpaceX, we developed every component from scratch = 90% cost savings. Built in a few months by 3 engineers locked in a room with no sunlight in the middle of London. Stress-tested daily in a live restaurant: we build, serve, wash, iterate. The world's leading operating platform rewriting the restaurant labour model. Coming in 2025.

Revealing the world’s best science-backed culinary AI soon. Research preview of our 300-dimensional flavour similarity model created using ML.

Fully articulatable (once a lot of support removed) print-in-place 5DOF robot arm by @therobotstudio. Haven’t finished cleaning it up, had to share it as soon as it moved. 3.5 hours on my BL A1 mini. Insane. github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO…

More UK companies should start their mornings like this

Engineers continuing to keep the renovation bill low.

Did you really achieve PMF if your most loyal customer doesn’t say it’s better than s*x?

Awesome parallel joint use from @EnchantedTools for some really life-like neck movement #ICRA2024

This little guy is made from a bunch of $400 all-in-one actuators (reduction, driver, even water cooling inc.). Similarly priced if not cheaper than Chinese counterparts (e.g: T-Motor). Very cool from Westwood Robotics #ICRA2024

Slowly figuring out how to keep 3D prints food-safe. ATP results speak for themselves

Unitree humanoid robot for just $16k at #ICRA2024

Last minute revision…

Exactly why @IvanTregear created one from scratch for @KAIKAKU_AI

Letting @IvanTregear cook

What’s the first thing you do when you get a new vacuum chamber?

Typical day when the Risk Assessment contains ‘exploding tomato’

One of the easiest ways to check whether our food is tasty or not is to see if our employees finish our bowls even though they eat it daily