Varun Nair (@_varunnair)

Varun Nair @_varunnair

Jun 26

Who are the watchmen of Robotics?

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Lukas Ziegler

@lukas_m_ziegler

Jun 25

🚨 BREAKING: BMW Group and @Figure_robot just took their partnership to the next level. Figure 03 is now live at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg. Figure 02 ran for 11 months at Spartanburg, supporting the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles. Inserting sheet-metal parts for welding: high speed, high accuracy, physically demanding. In a real factory. Every day. Now Figure 03 is tackling something harder: complex sequencing in logistics: → Components arrive unsorted in large containers → Figure 03 picks and sorts them into sequencing trolleys → Trolleys are transported to collection points → Parts delivered to assembly workers just-in-sequence This use case is everywhere in automotive manufacturing. Figure 03 also ships with meaningful hardware upgrades over its predecessor like improved hands with tactile sensors and palm cameras, wireless charging for higher availability, soft components for enhanced safety, and speech-to-speech audio communication. BMW is building an entirely new Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production and rolling out humanoids in Germany for the first time too. 🇩🇪 Congrats @adcock_brett! Read more here: press.bmwgroup.com/global/ar… ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

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Jun 24

rbrbdbmbr 🚀

Murtaza Dalal

@mihdalal

Jun 24

Robots building robots building datacenters building models building robots 🚀

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Jun 23

Any graphic designers or game developers with experience building sim assets?

Varun Nair @_varunnair

Jun 18

Trying to find simulation eng and experts, will buy you a meal if you are in SF and I can pick your brain. Tag someone who you fits the bill and wants free food

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Jun 23

Dynamic Supply Chains exist. Why don’t Dynamic factories?

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Jun 23

Today I found out there is a 12 year old Belgian company focuses on just one thing - Pick and Place for high mix tasks VLA demos are a decade late for the same capability. What am I missing?

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Jun 23

Why are 10 year old “AI-enabled” robotic automation solutions LARPing as cutting edge

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Jun 23

Inevitable

Jason Shuman

@JasonrShuman

Jun 23

Prediction Baby boomers who have put years of work into blue collar jobs that millennials and Gen Z are reluctant to replace will get big pay bumps by training robotics and will flock to those jobs the next few years

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Fabi

@flooburrito

Jun 23

Teleop is literally just Ratatouille for robots 🐀🤖

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Jun 22

Conversations with Automate Exhibitionists “We use AI enabled robotic automation” “How recently did you build your AI system” “13 years ago”

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Jai Relan

@JaiRelan

Jun 22

If you are around at Automate this week, come find me and get one of these @Rellingco challenge coins!

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Chris Paxton

@chris_j_paxton

Jun 22

Once upon a time this was true of SaaS too right

Varun Nair @_varunnair

Jun 22

The story of American System Integrators landscape is a fractured, geographically constrained, highly specialized or templatized. The reason is the economics Even with new capability unlock, does the economics for physical AI SI work unless at a massive scale?

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Jun 22

The amount of people reselling Anvils OpenArm incl. myself is so high cuz this piece of toy is not reliable or great prod experience. Just keeps getting sent to the next robotics enthusiast who didn’t realize this was a bad purchase.

Abhinav Reddy Palle

@TetraxYT

Jun 21

Selling an OpenArm in the SF Bay Area. DM if interested!

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Jun 22

The story of American System Integrators landscape is a fractured, geographically constrained, highly specialized or templatized. The reason is the economics Even with new capability unlock, does the economics for physical AI SI work unless at a massive scale?

Chris Paxton

@chris_j_paxton

Jun 21

I think that the next-generation of systems integrators is going to be doing this kind of task all the time soon.

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Jun 18

Trying to find simulation eng and experts, will buy you a meal if you are in SF and I can pick your brain. Tag someone who you fits the bill and wants free food

Varun Nair @_varunnair

Jun 13

Simulation building is one the hardest task for current coding agents. Failing here is the biggest bottleneck for Physical AI safety and reliability.

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Peter H. Diamandis, MD

@PeterDiamandis

Jun 13

Pessimists sound smart. Optimists build the world.

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Jun 14

New Attack Dog Unlocked

Eren Chen

@ErenChenAI

Jun 12

An armed quadruped robot designed for military operations.

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Sharat Satyanarayana

@bratrat

Jun 5

🧵 1/12 June 2027. The biggest AI labs have quietly stopped bragging about parameter counts. Instead, a handful of them are now running the same 20-watt blueprint that evolution already perfected: real biological neurons, simulated at scale, on ordinary GPUs. Sci-fi you think? It’s already happening. And at Neuropeek @HiSohan just made it practical. We are about to own the layer everything else sits on.

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Sohan

@HiSohan

Jun 5

Imagine a Purkinje cell firing. Not as a dot on a graph. As a tree of light, branches illuminating from trunk to tip in 0.3 milliseconds. Now imagine five different neuron types doing this simultaneously, talking to each other through synapses that pulse when they transmit. That's what your brain just did to picture this.

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