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Robot witch of @MissionRobotBay. Head of DevRel @NewTheoryAI. Often chased by tiny leopards. Prev: @0xPolygon, @Optimism

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
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Thursday 10/29 (cont'd) ‣ Surreal Dinner Series - Recursive Self Improvement talk w/ Recursive Co-founder luma.com/surreal-8jm6 @veelarco @mercebent ‣ Founders, Funders, and Fresh Lime! luma.com/cgzl4lmz @aspec00 ‣ The Deployment Moat: A Physical AI Industry Panel luma.com/9qyybpyn @rachelwrr1118 @skylar @Scav ‣ Text-to-Screech: Haunted TTS Launch Event luma.com/assemb-42oc @assemblyai ‣ Pancake AI x Corgi luma.com/usecorgi-fda6 @usecorgi @jean_ette_li @erikalee @lauradang0 @tristan_cte @GuillaumeBasalt @francoisdefitte @unfairdotso ‣ Agentic AI Day: From Models to Systems That Act luma.com/cpqlpbpi
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Robots are getting better at completing tasks. But what happens when they make a mistake? We fine-tuned π₀.₅ on two real-world manipulation tasks to showcase whether recovery demonstrations can improve policy reliability more effectively than additional successful demonstrations. 🧵
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Great 👍 👌 event. @Scav – at San Francisco, CA
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feeling so grateful with all the incredible projects happening right now : > just wrapped up an exhibition with @plmsda and @ux_place for sf tech week >> check it out @ 236 powell st > recap video for USER EXPERIENCE will be dropping soon > reading room season finale this Wednesday - we have a BIG surprise > helping out some incredible friends on their launches > shooting for reindustrialziation docu-series is about to start - DM me if you want a free video on your startup also s/o to @MissionRobotBay for always making my shoot days a blast
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We looked into 27 robot deployment companies. Of the 18 focused solely on deployment, 13 were founded in 2024 or later. That suggests a shift in where founders see the opportunity: start with a customer’s job, bring together the hardware and model companies needed to do it, and improve through real-world use. The interesting question is whether these companies also become the places where robot models learn.
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We're hosting a robotics night at @MissionRobotBay this Wednesday during @SFTechWeek Robotics, off the record - What's said in the room stays in the room. We're fed up with the robotics hype. So we're bringing together people from across the robotics industry to test real robots, give honest opinions, and talk about what actually works and what breaks. Co-hosting with @thanehunt & @Scav Only few spots left, join uss 🔽 partiful.com/e/TprLtwRJBJaBw…
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sf is truly the city of giving went to @MissionRobotBay last night knowing absolutely 0 folks came out with 4 teams who are crushing it across construction, textiles, visual inspection and warehouse robotics who want to be a part of my new series s/o to the queen @Scav for making this community possible
who do i know in SF that is building in hardware, robotics, manufacturing etc and want free content? experimenting with something DMs are open
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Trossen VR Teleop
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This week at Mission Robotics – robotics research over dinner, then hardware at the mic: Wed 9/9: Frontier Research Club #22 - The 20-Watt Problem Thu 9/10: SF Hardware Meetup #137 Whole week: luma.com/mission-robotics?ut…
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i have a degree in electrical engineering i dont mess with hardware for the same reason i dont mess with linux it’s a pain in the ass… but not any more! i can talk to my ai harness on my omarchy linux machine out loud while i work… and i gave it vision so it can see my circuits and give feedback… and it can ssh into my controller and install/run code… and it can ship prints to my 3d printer… right here it is controlling a laser and taking test readings and telling me how to adjust the sensor in realtime… it feels like magic!!!
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"If you've ever been kicked out of a @wework for your robotics project, we want you!" Love it. 😄♥️ @scav @withprotegeai – at San Francisco, CA
sf now has a much-needed monthly seminar dedicated entirely to the fact that robots work great – until they're real 😄 five sessions: perception, contact, data, locomotion, world models (sim-to-real is tonight, hosted at @MissionRobotBay 🤖😍)
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GPU World: A story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me. The AI future is unevenly distributed. What would the world look like with AI broadly diffused, such as if we had one GPU per person? 1000-5000 words, fiction or non-fiction. $100K in total prizes. gpuworld.org
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So many confused and incorrect answers to this. There is absolutely no reason you can't have a deterministic LLM. Also many people are confused by what "determinism" means in this context. Let's go over everything people are confused about 🧵
When people describe AI models as being “non deterministic.” Is that true in theory, or is it only true in practice?
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Tonight: Trossen wraps their SF showroom residency with a partner night with @Qualcomm, Proprio Robotics, and @livekit, food and drinks on the house. The 7:00 PM panel: Anish Shah (Trossen), Nikhil Tyagi (Qualcomm), Anirudh Pai (Proprio), and David Chen (LiveKit) on getting robots out of the lab and into the real world. Doors at 6. luma.com/trossen-proprio-liv…
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Amazing vibes at @trossenrobotics @MissionRobotBay w/ @Scav @sean_pixel @Alpha10six 🔥😎🦾🤖 thank you for having us, incredible tech 🪄👏❤️‍🔥🌉
Heck YES @Alpha10six See you there 🦾👑 😎🙏 v excited to go hands on with physical AI and teleoperate via Glide, check out Rivet and the WidowX fam 🙏 @MissionRobotBay @Scav 🤖🦾🔥 thx for hosting @trossenrobotics luma.com/trossen-academic-ni… thx for the heads up @Alpha10six 🤜🤛🐐
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Replying to @Scav @skara_io
I didn't realize this was from the Mission Robotics office but now I recognize it!
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human in the loop the loop: “you’re doing amazing sweetie”
We asked an unreleased research version of Claude to take a stab at the Riemann hypothesis. It didn’t solve it, but it did make strides on a related problem: it increased the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%. anthropic.com/research/riema…
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Mattie Fairchild retweeted
One of the biggest takeaways from our third Spatial Frontier Club event was seeing how differently each speaker approached spatial intelligence, yet how closely their work ultimately connected. Ke Jing’s discussion around XR, robot teleoperation, and egocentric data collection highlighted how humans can interact with robots while also generating valuable real-world data. @sbh_studio work in 4D capture addressed how those environments and human activities can be preserved with spatial and temporal detail. @DengHokin research in video reasoning raised the next question: whether AI can actually understand the motion, causality, and physical dynamics contained within that data. @Luckyballa perspective on physics simulation and learned world models then explored how systems can model and predict those dynamics beyond what has already been observed. Together, the talks revealed a broader loop: interacting with the physical world, capturing it, understanding it, and predicting what may happen next. As co-founders of Spatial Frontier Club, @dazouzi123 , @usernameiszhao , and @ChengxinYu27 have always believed that the most valuable conversations happen when researchers, builders, founders, and investors can exchange ideas across disciplines. This event reflected exactly that vision—not just individual presentations, but a shared exploration of where spatial intelligence is heading. What stood out was that the field is moving beyond static 3D representations or visually convincing outputs. The real challenge is building systems that understand how a world changes over time, how actions affect it, and how intelligence can eventually operate within it. Each speaker was working on a different part of that challenge, but the convergence between their perspectives made the larger direction much clearer. A special thank you to @MissionRobotBay @Scav for once again partnering with us and providing such an incredible space for the community. We truly appreciate your support in making this event possible. We’re also grateful to every speaker and attendee who joined us. We’re excited to continue building Spatial Frontier Club into a community where these conversations—and collaborations—can keep happening.
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