Seeing ≠ feeling in robotics🤖. Collecting data without force feedback is not only frustrating but also doesn’t work for contact-rich tasks. Introducing FACTR: a low-cost teleop that lets users feel what the robot feels + a simple algo to integrate force into autonomous

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services: - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs) - hosting

FACTR is now open source! You can now build your own low-cost force-feedback teleop system. Hardware: github.com/JasonJZLiu/FAC… Teleop Code: github.com/RaindragonD/fa… Training Code: github.com/RaindragonD/fa…

Big news! 🎉 Colab now officially supports Julia runtimes! These runtimes are pre-installed with key packages like CSV, DataFrames, Makie, Plots, and others to take advantage of GPU and TPU support. We’re excited to complete the original Jupyter triad (Ju-Pyt-R) and bring easy

Programmable and reversible CRISPRi-based genetic circuits function in a variety of plants go.nature.com/4bpCNQa rdcu.be/egMmm

Google literally published a 69-page prompt engineering masterclass

PSA It’s a new era of ergonomics. The primary audience of your thing (product, service, library, …) is now an LLM, not a human. LLMs don’t like to navigate, they like to scrape. LLMs don’t like to see, they like to read. LLMs don’t like to click, they like to curl. Etc etc.

The most useful MCP server I've seen so far - up to date code docs in LLMs by Upstash github.com/upstash/contex…

Experimenting with LCA in DAGs for RAG, prompt planning, and merging chains of thought I gave my 10-year-old ancestor.js module a modern makeover—ESM, TypeScript typings, Github Actions CI. Next up is upgrading the graph-difference module.. github.com/mirkokiefer/an…

While the US produces unicorns weekly, Europe's founders drown in paperwork across 27 different countries. But 15,000+ tech leaders just forced the EU to finally address its biggest innovation killer. Why "EU Inc" could make Europe the world's most powerful startup ecosystem:

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 🌥 on the end of the web: Google a decade ago: 2 pages scraped for ~1 click Google now: 6 pages scraped for 1 click OpenAI: 250 pages scraped for 1 click Anthropic: 6,000 pages scraped for 1 click

Prompt Theory (Made with Veo 3) What if AI-generated characters refused to believe they were AI-generated?

Neuro-symbolic concepts (object, action, relation) represented by a hybrid of neural nets & symbolic programs. Composable, grounded, and typed, agents recombine them to solve tasks like robotic manipulation. J. Tenenbaum Jiayuan Mao Jiajun Wu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) arxiv.org/abs/2505.06191

also, here is one part that people not interested in the rest of the post might still be interested in:

Happy to announce mimic-one: a Scalable Model Recipe for General Purpose Robot Dexterity, the culmination of years of research work in dexterous manipulation with imitation learning.

LeRobot hackathon in Mountain View - insane moment when the robot arm actually tries to pick the color labeled dice you trained it to pick and attempts to place it in the right spot. Amazing time to dive into robotics even if you know very little about it.

Apple is getting there with AI dev tooling – on-device transcription now allegedly faster than the Whisper models. Jordi Bruin have you tested this? macstories.net/stories/hands-…

Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so