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Introducing Lume.
A lamp that does your chores.
Order now. Shipping this summer.
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Introducing Lume, the robotic lamp.
The first robot designed to fit naturally into your home and help with chores, starting with laundry folding.
If you’re looking for help and want to avoid the privacy and safety concerns of humanoids in your home, pre-order now.
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Been building a new kind of robot we’ve never seen anyone try before
can’t wait to share it next week
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We are shipping in summer 2026. There will be limited units available in the first batch. Pre-order here: buy.stripe.com/4gMaEY3kk8qg9…
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lol! Laundry folding is consistently top 2 most annoying tasks in the home, based on people we spoke to.
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I will be going on @TBPN at 1PM PST to talk about Lume, make sure to tune in!
Morning. On today’s show:
– The Metis List of top AI researchers is live
– High schoolers beat AI at the math olympiad
– Apple may have ditched the iPhone camera bump
– GPT-5 rumors heat up
Lightning round call-ins with:
– @typesfast (Flexport)
– @tyhunnny (TYB + Outdoor Voices)
– @antoniogm (Coinbase)
– @iwebst (Promptfoo)
– @leveredvlad (OffDeal)
– @aaronistan (Syncere AI)
See you all on the stream.
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Had a blast chatting with @TBPN about the future of home robotics.
At @SyncereAI , we're building robots that blend into your space, serve a purpose, and stay out of the way until you need them.
Thanks for having me on!
We discussed the latest in robotics: robotic lamps that blend seamlessly into home decor with @aaronistan (Founder of @SyncereAI).
"We are building robotic lamps. They're meant to disappear into your home."
"This is a single floor lamp that you can place anywhere. It's just that most people we talked to, the bed is where you fold your laundry."
"The main thing that has always held it (laundry folding) back is the form factor. What we have here mimics human arms, so we can adapt to different types of clothing sizes, different types of articles and styles."
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we actually started this company building humanoids first
then soon realized that was just lazy thinking tbh
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Something we spent a lot of time thinking about when designing Lume was how robotic technologies will fit in to people’s lives.
If we do it right, it should simply disappear without adding friction/complexity to one’s life.
ARE YOU SEEING THIS?
This is NOT AI GENERATED, this is real.
Introducing Lume, a pair of bedside lamps that double up as robotic arms that folds your laundry…
we got founder @aaronistan on the show to tell you about it himself in 20 seconds
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Lume has wrist cameras for task completion, but they're covered by lamp hoods when inactive (lamp mode).
Compared to typical domestic robots, Lume has a fixed region that it operates in, and does not freely roam your home for safety/privacy reasons.
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this is the second most demanded feature through our customer discovery! it is in the pipeline
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Happy Kobe Day! 08/24
At @syncereAI, every engineer carries with them the Mamba Mentality. Obsession is our strength, and the jobs not finished until it's finished.
We're looking to add new teammates to our roster:
- Research Scientist
- Hardware Engineer
- Chief of Design
- and more
If you know an all-star, there's a $10k referral bonus.
Oh, and yes, every teammate gets a custom team hoodie, stitched with our core values.
Application link in bio.
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We checked out Lume, the viral robot that looks like a lamp!
@aaronistan from startup @syncereai joined the show to tell @Alex and @jason about reimagining the home robotics space.
Unlike many of the humanoid robots you’ve probably seen around, Lume is a system of “robot lamps” designed to blend into your home decor, only revealing themselves when you need them.
The robot arms currently fold laundry, but more applications are on the way. Hear more about it in this TWiST highlight!
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Thanks for including us @adcock_brett !
Syncere AI unveiled Lume, a robotic lamp designed to fit naturally into homes
It is aimed at helping users with household chores, starting with laundry folding
Available for pre-order, with limited shipping set to begin in summer 2026
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Check out this interview with @sfstandard for more details about the robotic lamps we're building at @syncereAI
sfstandard.com/2025/07/30/ai…
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UI and color made personal computers usable. Expressiveness and anthropomorphism will do the same for personal robotics.
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Yep, the last time the home got new tech was more than 40 years ago.
It’s time we revive the home.
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there will be multiple lamps that you can place throughout your home! a kitchen one would certainly be nice
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Invisible robotics is especially necessary in a home, because the best help happens without making you change how you live.
One of the many reasons I love @pipedream_labs so much is their thesis that robotics should be invisible. I think that’s the world we actually want to live in, where robotics are working behind the scenes, such as the underground delivery network they are building.
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there’s a small preview of the physical prototype here
We discussed the latest in robotics: robotic lamps that blend seamlessly into home decor with @aaronistan (Founder of @SyncereAI).
"We are building robotic lamps. They're meant to disappear into your home."
"This is a single floor lamp that you can place anywhere. It's just that most people we talked to, the bed is where you fold your laundry."
"The main thing that has always held it (laundry folding) back is the form factor. What we have here mimics human arms, so we can adapt to different types of clothing sizes, different types of articles and styles."
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Shared some insight with @IlirAliu_ about our journey coming from Canada to SF to build @syncereAI !
🎙️ In this episode, I talk with @aaronistan,
Co-founder of @syncereAI, where he’s reimagining domestic robotics:
A robotic lamp capable of folding laundry!
One single video of the concept went viral, pulling in over 4 million views and sparking thousands of conversations online.
We talk about growing up in Taiwan, immigrating to Canada as a teenager, and how a Lego Mindstorms kit from his father kicked off a lifelong obsession with robots. Aaron walks me through his path from a Bachelor’s and Master’s at Ontario Tech University, to a PhD at the University of Toronto, and a postdoc at Stanford... and why he chose the Bay Area to build Syncere.
He also shares the story behind Lume’s design, inspired by Beauty and the Beast, and explains why he believes the future of home robotics shouldn’t look like humanoids. We talk about building in public, customer psychology, and what it’s like creating a product people can’t wait to have in their homes.
@builddeeptech #77
"Fear and pressure fade when joy takes over."
with Aaron Tan, PhD, Co-founder of Syncere
🎥 YouTube: piped.video/dzfb_USr7OY?si=PcBC…
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7gl…
🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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thanks! robots for the home should blend in like furniture, and stay out of the way until they're needed
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We're working on pricing still (aiming at <2k).
In terms of the couch, you can do that! Through our own research, the majority of people throw their laundry on the bed before folding it, which is why we've chosen to demonstrate it here.
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The future of domestic robotics is ambient 🎯
.@ariellezuck on the new frontier of robotics: value shifts as training costs collapse.
“The cost of training robots to do something that’s actually creating value has just gone down immensely.”
“I agree that having a robot in my house seems a little Black Mirror-esque. But people are receptive to personal relationships with AI, like ChatGPT as a friend and coach.”
“I’m much more into the idea of ambient, single-purpose objects. For instance, a robot that lives in the laundry room, moving and folding your laundry.”
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the idea is that you wouldn't stay around to watch it
like the dishwasher or laundry washing machine
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We are intentionally designing it to not freely roam your home for safety/privacy reasons.
Lume will only operate when there are clothes on the bed, and will not leave the vicinity of the bed. Otherwise, it will simply operate as a pair of smart lamps.
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Compared to self-driving, our problem is easier
If it fails to fold, it'll try again.
If a car fails to drive ... uh oh.
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spent some time on robots for senior care during my PhD, this is definitely a great area, congrats 🙏
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Our latest paper leverages generative AI for multi-robot exploration.
This is the first work to utilize consistency models for decentralized robot map prediction, to address the challenges of limited communication during deployment.
arxiv.org/abs/2402.17904
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Making the bed is a feature, amongst many others.
We’re starting with laundry folding because it’s the most annoying task for our targeted customer, with zero alternative solutions (you either manually fold or you don’t).
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Yes, absolutely! You will have the option to place lamps anywhere in the home that will be able to complete varying tasks, cooking is one.
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1. drop your clean clothes on the bed, 2. walk away, 3. when you return, everything is folded and sorted neatly
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yes, you can place lamps throughout your home, and what they can do will be based on the environment/context they're in
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Excited to share that 2 of our works have been accepted to #ICRA2025 on the topic of robot navigation in complex, human-centric environments.
- NavFormer: A Transformer Architecture for Robot Target-Driven Navigation in Unknown and Dynamic Environments
- OLiVia-Nav: An Online Lifelong Vision Language Approach for Mobile Robot Social Navigation
@ieee_ras_icra @UofTRobotics
Links below 👇
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lol wild right, not sure why every single one on the market still looks like it belongs in a factory
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Can robots navigate using hand-drawn maps?
Our latest work tackles this HRI challenge with vision-language models!
@angus_fung @haitong__wang @UofTRobotics
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00114
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🎯🎯🎯
bought my 1st robot yesterday
not because it "looked cool" or does backflips,
but because it *didn't* look like a robot.
it looks like a piece of furniture (bedside lamps) that blends into your room and folds your laundry, makes your bed whenever you're not around (don't believe me see tweet below)
the point is i was compelled to buy it because it could enter my life without being an eyesore & because it added real value to my life
this then got me thinking about AI at large.
the reason why top models are so successful is because they make you feel like home, at ease - like you're talking to a friend or talented engineer - and they do useful things for you
but a lot of AI products today miss the mark, instead opting for a flash-bang approach with slick marketing ads + mockups when really no one wants that shit
they just want something that seamlessly slots into their lives, is omnipresent across all mediums they interact on (social, professional, physical) and can see what they see - without disrupting the flow of their lives
no one actually wants a robot following them about, they just want the ai to be there and improve their lives as and when makes most sense
theres a lot of opportunity in building an effective, unnoticeable ai product.
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At #CoRL2024 this week to present our work on online lifelong learning with VLMs for robot social navigation.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.13675
@corl_conf @sidarceus @dnlcdnl
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Super fun chat with @cryptopunk7213 and @joshkale !
Thanks for having me. We will be bringing our robot to nyc very soon
The most interesting robot of 2025 is not what you think.
But if it's not a humanoid with arms and legs, what is it?
It's a lamp 🛋️
And it does your chores.
So we interviewed founder @aaronistan to discuss the future of home technology and the @syncereAI mission 👇
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Can robots predict the intentions of other robots? What about the spatial configuration of unexplored regions?
In 2022, I published a review paper on the existing solutions to these questions.
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