@farantzos

Co-founder @doubleTwist. Current project: Robotics Weekly. @Livermore_Lab alumni.

 Austin, TX
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Joined February 2009
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Those robodogs (probably Unitree Go2s) are from @getundaunted in Atlanta, running them as a patrol service. ~$3K/mo gets you two dogs plus 8 hrs/day of remote monitoring. My guess: teleoperated, not autonomous, with a human on the line to talk through the dog or call police.
Matt Van Swol
@mattvanswolOct 14
🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely WILD footage has emerged from Atlanta where an apartment complex now uses "robot security dogs" to patrol the area at night. The robot dogs also seem to speak in Indian accents to the residents. I've never seen anything like this before... insane!!!
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It's a crude first attempt, but expect robosecurity to become a big market: autonomous, agentic patrols at a fraction of the cost of human guards.
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Robot patent race is absolutely bonkers. @Figure_robot 100 US patents in 18 months. @AgilityRobotics 46, @Apptronik 15, while @Tesla added 3 robot-related to their 600+ arsenal (US filings only)
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Full breakdown by company (applications plus grants): robotics.farantzos.com/compa…

Figure AI patents · Robotics map · AI & Humanoid Robotics Weekly

Figure AI US patent publications grouped by theme.

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Issue #2 of my new AI & Humanoid Robotics Weekly is out: Ultra raised $62M for warehouse robots it leases by the month, RobCo passed a $1B valuation, and UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen moved humanoid tests into car-plant logistics. 🤖
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Read the full issue: robotics.farantzos.com/posts…

Ultra raises $62M on Physical Intelligence's brains, RobCo turns unicorn, and open coding models...

Ultra leases warehouse robots that run on Physical Intelligence models, RobCo passes a $1B valuation, UBTECH takes humanoids into FAW-Volkswagen logistics, and Reflection and IQuest unveil 300B+...

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Today I learned California maintains a "Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program" for illegals and other client groups enabling them to drive legally with such absurdly low liability limits that they could literally kill someone and the policy will max out at $10,000. They hate you.
Natalie Jean Beisner
@NJBeisnerAug 25
Replying to @Papote_T
It’s real and totally legal. Literally just Democrat politicians “insuring”people who can’t afford it—but only to the tune of $3,000 per accident for property damage.
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Get your families out of California.
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Apple should rebrand the iOS Airplane mode to Data Center Free mode so we can tell the anti-data center crowd to permanently leave it on 🥳
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Grok Bot does an incredible job of cleaning up my mailbox from the spammer and scammer outfits that use new domains daily to bypass traditional spam filters 🤖
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Mark my words: sometime next year @elonmusk will turn Tesla AI4/AI5 into “self-hosted” Grok Bots for everyone through a partnership between SpaceXAI and Tesla.
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Every Texas anti-development/data center post features idyllic Hill Country scenery with springtime bluebonnets or creeks while 99%+ of all projects are being built on land like this 👇
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Every legacy institution (& allied tech oligopoly) is now the opposite of what its name implies: ADL → Defamation League Anthropic → Misanthropic ACLU → Anti-Civil Liberties Union Financial Times → Socialist Times
Financial Times
@FTJun 12
Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk

Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain

The X owner is using his platform to amplify extremist opponents of multiculturalism in Britain

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Monique Farantzos
@farantzosJun 10
Replying to @pmarca
Universal Basic Model for the plebs, God-mode for the nomenklatura.
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I lived in Norway for a few months. Given it's the wealthiest country in Europe I was expecting every supermarket to be a Scandinavian Whole Foods. It was more like Soviet Foods. In fact, many Norwegians were driving to border towns in Sweden for their groceries. Insane stuff.
Thomas Hornall
@ThomashornallJun 1
Moved to Norway and shocked at the food system. Supermarkets are essentially big corner shops. Processed slop, tinned/packaged stuff everywhere, while fish, chicken beef, fruit/veg are very expensive. Around 50% of all food sold in Norway is now ultraprocessed
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"Poor" Greeks or Italians have access to 10x the food products at a much higher quality and low prices, including many imported products that Norway taxes at confiscatory rates such as prosciutto or jamon.
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We won WWII & Cold War because our engineers, scientists and industry were aligned in defense of our nation and the West. Now we have a bunch of beta males collecting fat paychecks from tech companies while acting repulsed their US employer contributes to the nation's defense.
Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦
@BlackHCApr 28
I'm speechless at Google signing a deal to use our AI models for classified tasks. Frankly, it is shameful. For HR, I'm not speaking on behalf of Google but in my personal capacity, quoting public information from a well-sourced article of a reputable publication
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Once humanoids hit sufficient scale they’ll fade into invisibility and become part of the hidden in plain sight scaffolding of every city.
🤖 Made with AI
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Schrodinger's Strait, formerly known as Strait of Hormuz.
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Sadly in this conflict social media psyops have reached a new level where almost all medium to large size accounts with a 🇺🇸 flag in their profile are either 1) 100% foreign-led anti-American ops or 2) domestic useful idiots propelled into fame by foreign bot networks.
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