Building @eyecandyrobots Built @flowdrive_ai role models @realGeorgeHotz & @iSidhuMoosewala
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My second hand redmi note 9 pro running flowpilot is driving my alto k10 😂Can it get more desi than this ?
#flowpilot #openpilot #ai #robotics #autonomous #cars #Android
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Sometimes I feel like quitting robotics and become a normie web developer. How tf am I supposed to debug this.
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These guys are one of the inderect reasons that nvidia is now a 3 trillion dollar company.
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I am so jealous of people who can make their own PCBs and design just about anything.
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Robotics is everything you could wish for working in engineering.
Mechanical, electronics, machine learning, maths, physics, creativity, art, all coming together to form a system you can hold in your hands.
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One of the best papers that combine machine learning and video games. The neural network learns motion from raw human data. The motion in-game feels fluid and natural, and best part is you dont have to manually write motion state-machines.
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This is going to create a wave of fomo in a lot of successful founders potentially doubling deeptech investments over the years. LFG
India has tried building gas turbine engines before. And we’ve come close.
At LAT, we want to get past the finish line. So we’re putting together a propulsion research team in Bangalore, focused solely on building gas turbine engines from scratch. Lightweight. Efficient. Flight-ready. Made in India.
What’s different this time?
We’re giving engineers the freedom to think, build, break, and repeat. Our dedicated research centre — with labs for combustion, turbomachinery, thermal systems, and materials, will give engineers the space and freedom to iterate fast, and get to real outcomes at a speed which is unprecedented in the industry.
Also, this team will be led by engineers. No waiting around for approvals from "business" people. No chasing slides or meetings. Just hands-on problem solving, running bench tests, working with suppliers, building hardware from scratch — and pushing the limits of design and physics every day.
It won’t be easy. But if it works, it changes everything. A full engine stack, built locally. Powering STOL aircraft. UAVs. Remote connectivity. Self-reliance.
If you’ve ever built turbines, rotors, control systems — or anything close — and want to be part of something that could one day, rewrite history, write to us at engines@lat.com
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Note: LAT is not a part of Eternal
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Fluid Simulation Pendant by mitxela. Dope hardware art. Wonderful video explanation on yt.
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> See indian guy tweet about really cool ambitious projects they are working on.
> *Checks profile*
> Doesn't lives in India.
Observed this quite a lot recently.
It's a mix of outdated education practices, low-T VCs (they are happy to invest in d2c underwear brand than a deep tech startup) and low talent availability.
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Opened up an automotive pcb to ugh.. tinker around.
They glaze it and remove every trace to identify any ICs.
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I'd build this opensource in public if this post gets enough interest and possibly some funds / grants. Been obsessing over this for quiet some time.
Already built an animatronics workflow and reinforcement learning with motion priors.
This might be my new favorite paper - I've been kind of obsessed with these robots since seeing them at the Robotics Summit earlier this summer
la.disneyresearch.com/public…
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flowpilot is built on top of openpilot, can be installed on any android phone or linux pc. Its an opensource advanced driving assist system.
github.com/flowdriveai/flowp…
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Disney is proving every other humanoid company a joke straight in their faces. Their team is a bunch of dudes and probably a fraction of budget. Figure ai stuff is a bubble. They'd most probably go bankrupt.
NEW: Disney Research unveiled a groundbreaking robotic humanoid character capable of 25 functions. This recently built character is the “next step” in Disney’s robotic character platform. 👀
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Bro did zero leetcode. All the good people I know do zero leetcode. Asking leetcode to good people in interviews is stupid.
i completed a month at FAL, here’s how i got an offer there:
> be me
> june 2024
> learn ML model optimizations
> inference mostly, training a bit
> optimize SDXL inference
> post about it
> find cuda, learn it
> blogs on kernels for sgemv, softmax, etc.
> get in-depth knowledge on GPUs
> fal reaches out offering a role
> optimize inference of 4 models back to back
> feel grateful
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Today we are launching 100 early pre-orders for Mr. Tensors @eyecandyrobots, an inexpensive opensource lifelike robot character that's cool enough toy for kids (and a human-robot-interaction + reinforcement learning research tool for academia and hobbyists).
We are looking for parents and researchers to adopt our handmade cute little dinos!
The early 100 people would more or less be our design partners and early supporters to help us manufacture, ship and iterate on the product experience.
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The reality is that this thing might outperform figure ai in terms of usefulness and its so funny.
Introducing Bambot, an open source, low cost (~$300) humanoid robot.
Inspired by @LeRobotHF , so-100 arm and lekiwi
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A lot of indian investors I discuss stuff with are like, 'ohh this is hardware, you should focus on SaaS that is easier to scale'.
MF, stop projecting your insecurities on me. I am not here to build a fucking SaaS or d2c whitelabeling china stuff. I live by do or die priciples.
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I have opensourced my BD-1 model, urdf and walking code in isaac Lab framework. Happy hacking!
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Reverse engineering a XUV 700 EPS. Some progress. Torque assist is working. Goes into failsafe mode after 5 mins due other car ECUs not being connected though. Long battle.
#CarHacking #openpilot #flowpilot
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I don't plan to raise funds for this. The tech is all opensourced and given back to community. I have other plans in core robotics space though which makes much more sense from business and value creation.
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Brett should be more humble. People behind agility and anymal are one of the reasons progress in legged robotics was accelerated.
There are huge red flags in figure. You have been warned.
Because of poor engineering choices and almost no progress over the past 10 years, they’re unlikely to survive as things stand
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Chinese manufacturers having jaw droppingly cheap components with a 'buy know' and 'express shipping option' is bringing tears in my eyes 😭😭.
Meanwhile other countries having 'contact sales' and make you talk to dumb sales people.
God's work. I love chinese.
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Started learning electronics. Hopefully would be able to churn out custom boards for my robots soon.
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Finally taught this to pick up cubes with 0 if-else statements. Toy experiment, but gives a lot of insights into using Large VLMs for doing robotics tasks.
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Me and @pr0t0_01 have been working on a passion project for the past 3 months.
what does it mean to call something alive? @eyecandyrobots.
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The winners in general purpose robotics are not going to look like figure ai and their polished marketing materials. They are going to be chinese nerds from tsinghua university.
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There is eps column mounted motor. Newer cars already have that so it's pretty much plug and play for them.
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Some bloopers. Poor thing.
sim2real would be getting much better in coming time.
Today we are launching 100 early pre-orders for Mr. Tensors @eyecandyrobots, an inexpensive opensource lifelike robot character that's cool enough toy for kids (and a human-robot-interaction + reinforcement learning research tool for academia and hobbyists).
We are looking for parents and researchers to adopt our handmade cute little dinos!
The early 100 people would more or less be our design partners and early supporters to help us manufacture, ship and iterate on the product experience.
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Today we are launching 100 early pre-orders for Mr. Tensors @eyecandyrobots, an inexpensive opensource lifelike robot character that's cool enough toy for kids (and a human-robot-interaction + reinforcement learning research tool for academia and hobbyists).
We are looking for parents and researchers to adopt our handmade cute little dinos!
The early 100 people would more or less be our design partners and early supporters to help us manufacture, ship and iterate on the product experience.
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Just woke up to a very shocking news.
I got FIRED from Amazon.
I begged the uper management to atleast give me a reason of why I was fired. Finally received a closure in which they pointed out "I wasn't doing enough leetcode in my free time"
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Really makes me sad that half of our people in India are busy grinding useless leetcode problems. And on top of that the influencers have left no stones unturned to capitalise on this. Grinding your ass off leetcode is not how you accelerate. Build real life stuff.
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DO YOU REALLY THINK THESE LIL MFs WONT BE RULING THE WORLD ?
They are just limited by intelligence.
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We urgently need the george hotz of humanoid robotics space.
comma raised $8M with ~10 member team compared to $billions and 100s of employees by competitors.
90% of the competitors went bankrupt and shut down.
Comma is profitable, with ~0% employee crunch.
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I want one so bad! It was disney who showed the world that robots could feel this lively and cute.
Apart from this there is NOT A SINGLE robot that feels wantable.
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Doing a remote job sitting at home all day is like burning your life in front of you.
I used to work a remote and it occurred to me that almost all the memories of that time have been wiped out of my brain.
On the flip side, I vividly remember all the in-person jobs I worked.
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Robotics, physical world, defense, manufacturing, space, climate..
Notice the pattern. Focus mostly shifted to hardware + deep tech.
The world is full of founders with expertise that could be tapped into something new and great.
Our hope is that our Request for Startups (RFS) inspires some of those people to do so — or if they’re already building, to apply to YC. ycombinator.com/blog/ycs-lat…
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In 2nd/3rd world countries the labour is literally so cheap that it will fuck up your robotics startup economics.
Move to 1st world countries if you want to build robots. One struggle less.
🤖@pave_robotics is building Tracer, the first fully autonomous road worker. Tracer autonomously detects, cleans, and seals asphalt cracks cheaper, faster, and more efficiently than a human.
ycombinator.com/launches/MmN…
Congrats on the launch, @JoshAKelly and @MLandonSmith!
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My female friends working in startups and high profile mnc projects eat 10 Anu Sharmas raw everyday alone xD.
Let's not compare people in hardtech startups, PhDs and blue collar jobs for now.
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So soothing to watch.
Flowpilot running on a One Plus 7T, by paper @ flowpilot discord.
cc @comma_ai
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This won't go viral but the demo of that girl using git cloned opencv project for sign language fetches 10M+ views everytime lol.
We're thrilled to announce SignGemma, our most capable model for translating sign language into spoken text. 🧏
This open model is coming to the Gemma model family later this year, opening up new possibilities for inclusive tech.
Share your feedback and interest in early testing → goo.gle/SignGemma
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Giving a talk on RL and worldmodels for robotics today @lossfunk. Show up.
lu.ma/55ymsyg8
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This was such a peak time of life.
Reverse engineering a XUV 700 EPS. Some progress. Torque assist is working. Goes into failsafe mode after 5 mins due other car ECUs not being connected though. Long battle.
#CarHacking #openpilot #flowpilot
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A rule of thumb I follow is to not show prototypes to short sighted people. Prototypes are meant to be error prone and non-polished.
Forward looking people can see how it will evolve with time but short-sighted can't do it and go meh.
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But seriously, SWE normies should put one month into learning mech CAD and one month into electronics. Gives a much better understanding of the world around you.
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This documentary always goes so hard. Do yourself a favour and watch!
piped.video/9vz06QO3UkQ?si=2jkG…
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This report is so bad. Non tech analyst dudes jumping into deeptech investments is the most straightforward way to look stupid.
Done. Uploaded to google drive. Link below.
Did my best to simplify, digestible content. 12 pages, mostly pictures.
Investing in Humanoid Robotics - The next frontier
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This idea looks so good on paper but technically unfeasible *imo because:
1) General purpose robotics tech that is 99.99% accurate and fast enough is 10+ years away.
2) Specialised robotic solution is much more cheaper, faster and highly accurate.
Would be interesting to see how they would tackle these challenges or end up pivoting.
🤖 @UltraRoboticsCo (YC S24) is building AI-powered robots to package the billions of e-commerce orders still handled manually in American warehouses.
Congrats on the launch, @JMSchwartz11, Oliver, Chetan, and Max!
ycombinator.com/launches/LeE…
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Skild is going to kick asses. I'd put my bets on all robotics companies (general purpose) started by researchers who spent atleast a decade working in the field.
We’ve been building quietly — starting tomorrow, we go live.
Here’s a teaser of what we did before Skild AI. It has shaped what’s coming next.
07/29. Stay tuned.
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Latent Technology
To every rich person out there: your money is worthless if you don't write cheques to push technology and humanity further.
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Being a hardware founder is like being gay.
You know it's hard, capital is scarce, takes 10x the time to build.
But that's the only thing that turns you on and it's hard to explain other people why you do what you do.
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Nvidia will also have monopoly in simulators. Isaac is undefeated and very difficult to dethrone.
If humanoids are a ~$3T opportunity then this is what will power all of them.
Join experts Yuval Tassa from @GoogleDeepMind and Miles Macklin from NVIDIA at #GTCParis to learn about Newton, an open-source, extensible physics engine for robotics simulation, co-developed by Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA.
Gain insights into breakthroughs in #humanoidrobot development and the collaboration that’s bridging simulation, AI, and #robotics.
Learn more ➡️nvda.ws/4467f0A
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Half the time was spent in optimising for speed. Zero copy, blazing fast cpp and less garbage generation, shifting image processing to gpu, etc.
Every millisecond counts.
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Saw this article and while I respect the hardwork (we all should), there are certain contradictory statements in this.
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MIT maker portfolios are some of the top notch stuff. These are all highschool students. This is how admissions in colleges should be tbh instead of JEE exams.
piped.video/YzcKvWujLN8?si=b-uL…
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The blog and supporting code is absolutely well written by @anorangeduck.
theorangeduck.com/page/code-…
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