Co-founder & CEO @Shiraz_AI (YC S26), ex-Boston Dynamics, building robots that learn on the job
Boston, MA
Joined January 2018
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18 brilliant folks building the future of robotics, all around one dinner table.
For SF Tech Week, we brought together friends from frontier AI labs, industry, and startups, from researchers advancing RL in simulation to founders building the next generation of robotics companies.
An evening of fascinating conversations, fresh perspectives, and plenty of laughs.
If you are building in Physical AI, drop me a message. We would love to have you at the next dinner!
@Luckyballa - Skild AI
@Stone_Tao - Physical Intelligence
@RaresAmbrus - Walden Robotics
@un1c0rnioz - 1x
@charleswongzx - Bifrost AI
@IanGlow - Zeromatter
@brandon1 - Hebbian Robotics
@immonicax - Dyna Robotics
@massiviola01 - Bedrock Robotics
@realnavida - Shiraz AI
@bhavashok - Stealth
Tiantian Li - Meta
Mikhail Balakhno - OpenAI
Yatharth Ahuja - General Motors
Wallace Lim - Physical Intelligence
Pranav Deshmane - John Deere
Yup! Looks like we kicked off the ICL frenzy
In-Context Learning Results Hint at a “GPT Moment” for Robotics
For general-purpose robots to be useful and economical, you need to be able to teach them new skills on the fly. And now we can see how this will work, with in-context long horizon video demonstrations shown by companies like Generalist, Skild, Rhoda, Rhoda, and RobbyAnt.
The idea is simple: prompt with a demonstration, mixed video and proprioception information. Language isn't enough -- it doesn't specify the problem well enough. And it's starting to really work.
more in blog post
Everyone in robotics is waiting for the ChatGPT moment but … missing the most important part of the ChatGPT playbook.
So we left Boston Dynamics and Amazon Robotics to fix that, and start @Shiraz_AI to build robots that learn on the job.
When GPT-3 was released, it couldn’t do every task out of the box. But you could show it a few examples in the prompt, and it adapted on the spot.
We’re bringing that to robotics.
Show our robot a task once, and it adapts on the spot.
That’s exactly what our manufacturing customers need, especially when production lines change every week and traditional automation can’t keep up. And we’re already deploying it with our first customers.
Have a factory that’s difficult to automate? We’d love to talk.
This is the kind of data you need for reliable deployment! Bullish on this team!
Today we’re launching Enact: post-training infrastructure that makes robotics models work in the real world.
Robotics models fail when execution reaches states their training data never covered. A slip, an off-angle grasp, or an external disturbance can leave the policy without a learned recovery.
Enact finds those failures and generates the targeted recovery data teams use to make their models reliable in production.
@govindchada @enact_labs
I don’t get why our tech community is not fighting back against the FCC robotics ruling the same way we fought for open source models. It’s basically the same story playing out but for physical AI!
Very cool! Reminded me of what I did at Rethink Robotics back in 2017, using only force sensing and no vision
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I joined young leaders at some of Silicon Valley’s major tech companies for the “Tech x Future of Iran” summit at Uber HQ in San Francisco.
Iran’s future after the Islamic Republic is very bright, driven by the capabilities of Iranians at home and abroad.
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New video of my "Robotics at Scale" panel at @imaginationxyz @MIT with @realnavida @Annika_Thomas_ and Hasan Khan. youtube.com/watch?v=KNIdrqwK…
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Senator Lindsey Graham meets with @PahlaviReza, the exiled crown prince of Iran, and says help is on the way.
Navid Aghasadeghi retweeted
To all of our friends around the world,
Under the yoke of the Islamic Republic, Iran is identified in your minds with terrorism, extremism, and poverty. The real Iran is a different Iran. A beautiful, peace-loving, and flourishing Iran.
It is the Iran that existed before the Islamic Republic, and it is the Iran that will rise again from its ashes the day the Islamic Republic falls.
So let me be clear about how a free Iran will act toward its neighbors and the world, after the fall of this regime.
In security and foreign policy, Iran’s nuclear military program will end. Support for terrorist groups will cease immediately. A free Iran will work with regional and global partners to confront terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and extremist Islamism.
Iran will act as a friend and a stabilizing force in the region. And it will be a responsible partner in global security.
In diplomacy, relations with the United States will be normalized and our friendship with America and her people will be restored. The State of Israel will be recognized immediately. We will pursue the expansion of the Abraham Accords into the Cyrus accords bringing together a free Iran, Israel, and the Arab world.
A new chapter will begin, grounded in mutual recognition, sovereignty, and national interest.
In energy, Iran holds some of the largest oil and gas reserves in the world. A free Iran will become a reliable energy supplier to the free world. Policy-making will be transparent. Iran’s actions will be responsible. Prices will be predictable.
In transparency and governance, Iran will adopt and enforce international standards. Money laundering will be confronted. Organized corruption will be dismantled. Public institutions will answer to the people.
In the economy, Iran is one of the world’s last great untapped markets. Our population is educated, modern, with a diaspora that connects it to the four corners of the world. A democratic Iran will open its economy to trade, investment, and innovation. And Iran will seek to invest in the world.
Opportunity will replace isolation.
This is not an abstract vision. It is a practical one. Grounded in national interest, stability, and cooperation.
To achieve this, now is the time to stand with the Iranian people. The fall of the Islamic Republic and the establishment of a secular, democratic government in Iran will not only restore dignity to my people, it will benefit the region and the world.
A free Iran will be a force for peace. For prosperity. And for partnership.