I wrote a lot about the people I call "shapers" in my book Principles: Life & Work. I use the word to mean someone who comes up with unique and valuable visions and builds them out beautifully, typically over the doubts of others. Shapers get both the big picture and the details

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

The same will happen for humanoids and other robots. Cheap tactile and actuator encoders will lead the way for low cost robots when the control loops are designed to handle them robustly.

Packing products with class: How do we do it? 🎹 That's why we all love creative machine builders. For them there are no limits in building! Innovative product packaging by Douglas Machine. These robots neatly and attractively arrange items standing up or lying flat in the

What if your entire factory could transform itself into shipping containers in a day get shipped and unfold and start making parts 24 hours after arrival? Anywhere in the cosmos!

Manus just blessed me AGAIN They saw how quickly we ran through the first 100 community codes… so they gave me 500 more…. If you missed out on the first round, here’s your chance: 1. Retweet this post 2. Follow 3. DM me “MANUS” If you got the access code in the first

Playing Fetch with harmonica mortar x.com/i/status/18990…

Forked FreeCAD and made a “cursor for cad” prototype that can export STEP files with iterable geometry. I’m a mechanical engineer so I know how users would actually interact with this + what’s needed who wants to give me money to build this /collab there’s a lot more to be done

Decoding Morse Code.

60 years ago, Isaac Asimov envisioned a future where humans transition toward metal while robots evolve into organic forms, ultimately leading to a blended culture

Research out of China; they used ice lithography to fabricate 72 nm patterns on living tardigrades. The wild thing isn’t just that they “tattooed” tardigrades. It’s that tardigrades are so resilient, and focused electron beams so precise, that 40% of them survived and went

A lot of exciting consumer product launches recently. Some of my favorites are from Acemate, Everday, Bigscreen, and Orb Sport. Check out the latest updates and innovations:

🤯 We cracked RLVR with... Random Rewards?! Training Qwen2.5-Math-7B with our Spurious Rewards improved MATH-500 by: - Random rewards: +21% - Incorrect rewards: +25% - (FYI) Ground-truth rewards: + 28.8% How could this even work⁉️ Here's why: 🧵 Blogpost: tinyurl.com/spurious-rewar…

So Flow Matching is *just* xt = mix(x0, x1, t) loss = mse((x1 - x0) - nn(xt, t)) Nice, here it is in a fragment shader :) shadertoy.com/view/tfdXRM

Introducing UFM, a simple end-to-end transformer for flow & covisibility, unifying optical flow & image matching! ❄️ SOTA in-the-wild Dense Correspondence ❄️ 3x Accurate & 5x Faster than RoMA ❄️ 13% Better SOTA Optical Flow ❄️ Better & 60x Faster than MASt3R Links & Insights👇

it doesn't take a genius to realize that robotics is the next big thing

Was wondering what Unitree uses for their D1-T arm. It looks nice and simple. Apart from aluminum profiles, it seems they are using the following Fashion Star servos based on a google image search: fashionrobo.com/actuator-u100/… : RX18-U100H-M fashionrobo.com/actuator-u45/2… : RP8-U45 So thats

Here’s the behind the scenes of using Luma Ai Video Modify to turn some plastic soldiers into an army.