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@catplotlib

Robotics Engineer, working on medical robots! 🩺

 Bay Area, CA
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Joined February 2024
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The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
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“So how long ya been ubering for?”
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robotics will not explode like ChatGPT. robotics is a: 1. models problem (YC hivemind overindexes on this) 2. supply chain problem (china FTW) 3. infrastructure problem this means that the adoption curve will be a lot more gradual. my favourite robotics companies are that see the bigger picture.
Joe Harris (@_joe_harris_) profile pictureJoe Harris
@_joe_harris_Oct 25
there is no ChatGPT moment for robotics capability can skyrocket “overnight” but adoption is the long horizon all the opportunity belongs to those who can make adoption work. its a game of march of 9s (reliability), the last mile (deployment), and keeping it running (support).
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Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day! 10/24/26 10² + 24² = 26² This is the last one we’ll experience in our lifetime.
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I literally only built harnext so you never have to depend on claude code npmjs.com/package/@buildingt…
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Taylor Swift's silence on the PHP CVE is deafening
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Rotate your social security number
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I was able to replicate 70% of sf including hills in a PS1 retro style game base. Will release it to the public soon! playable in isometric and first person. You can be dropped at any address. Godot compatible, no web slop!
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R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026)
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Oh we are just building robots to build other robots and build data centers for their brains that can solve unsolved problems in mathematics beyond human knowledge. Its probably nothing
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Gave GPT-6 Astra the task to plug in an ethernet cable. It did it after 2 hours and 4 human prompt interventions. Being able to complete a task with tight tolerance and deformable objects is impressive. But I think speed is still a big problem with agentic robotic systems, since deep reasoning via 3D programs is an integral part of this pipeline, and it’s not obvious to me how that can be distilled/accelerated to a level comparable to VLAs.
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Two things can be true at once: (1) foundation models are the future of robotics and (2) a lot of robot stuff cannot be solved without a good understanding of the problem space, which is not the same as computer use
Georgia Chalvatzaki ✈️ #CoRL2026 (@GeorgiaChal) profile pictureGeorgia Chalvatzaki ✈️ #CoRL2026
@GeorgiaChalSep 8
People making grand claims about #robotics really need to spend time with actual robots. Debug the controller yourself. Deal with contact, latency, calibration, failures. And before declaring old problems obsolete or rebranding long-standing robotics ideas around foundation models, engage seriously with the field you are making claims about. #ECCV2026
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We Built a Chair That Follows You Anywhere
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Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1dxYljYVR…
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Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02

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You merely adopted the internet. My guy was born in it.
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The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍 This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: go.nasa.gov/4ak4Cdu
Landscape image collage spelling "NASA"

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you might recognize professor Kate from this pic (so wholesome)
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Yisong Yue (@yisongyue) profile pictureYisong Yue
@yisongyue27 Oct 2025
Since she's way too shy to post this herself, please join me in congratulating my amazing colleague and friend @klbouman for receiving tenure at @caltech! 🥳🎉
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Hugging Face opened pre-orders for Reachy Mini, an expressive, open-source desktop robot Starting at $299, the robot is designed for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation And it's fully programmable in Python
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brain can simulate a universal turing machine and thus all computable functions and so it's a computer. not very interesting unless you're stupid so let's all stop talking about it
Lewis 🇺🇸 (@ctjlewis) profile pictureLewis 🇺🇸
@ctjlewis14 Mar 2025
the brain is literally a computer and there are a lot of people who deny this for some reason.
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We’re excited to have Fourier joining us at the Humanoids Summit! Fourier is transforming the robotics industry with innovative solutions that redefine human-robot interaction and push the limits of what humanoid robots can achieve. #HumanoidsSummit #FutureOfRobotics
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