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@GoingBallistic5
Diary of daily musings about the humanoid botanical garden
Eureka! The Archimedes Drive interview is out
This Drive Eliminates Backlash — Could the Archimedes Drive Be Game-Changing for Robotics? Scott Walter @GoingBallistic5 sits down with Thibaud Verschoor, co-founder of IMSystems @IMSystemsNL, to discuss the Archimedes Drive at Automatica 2025 Watch: youtu.be/XqOumFdvZps?si…
Don't be a rube-boter! Robot safety is a human problem
How to solve the robot safety problem Just invent a new term I propose rubeboter "It wasn't the bots fault. Those rubeboters just got in its way" youtube.com/shorts/6W_s3VP…
How to solve the robot safety problem Just invent a new term I propose rubeboter "It wasn't the bots fault. Those rubeboters just got in its way" youtube.com/shorts/6W_s3VP…
"For the hand is not to be looked on as one organ but as many; it is, as it were, an instrument for instruments."
Aristotle: “The hand is the tool of tools.”
It's called a Deadman's Switch Been used in robotics since the beginning Invented a century and a half ago for trolleys and ships Should be mandatory for all live performances
G1's crazy performance, suddenly fell to the ground and twitched. (How to avoid the safety hazards of humanoid robots suddenly falling to the ground?)
Even more grounds for a safety first approach This is not a reason: it's an excuse
If you’re wondering what was making our robot freak out. We have been training new AI moves to MAKE THEM FIGHT with human like movements. You scared yet?
Correcting the record Only Tesla, NOT Figure, has scaled back production targets Figure is doing the exact opposite: increasing targets x.com/adcock_brett/s…
About a dozen people sent me the Unitree announcement today. Makes sense, since I guess since K-Scale is the only American humanoid robot company with a product that you can actually buy. If you are American and you care about the future of robotics in this country, you should…
This being today/tonight
This Saturday, @GoingBallistic5 and I have an opportunity to host a space with @JoelSercel to talk about space, asteroid mining and more! Dr Joel Sercel is an entrepreneur, an aerospace engineer and an inventor. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech, he spent 14 years…
Cuz hands are the business end of the robot Without them your bot is nothing more than a curiosity This is where the engineering effort needs to go Ilir makes the case
Why hands? We get this question all the time. Why build a human-like hand instead of a simpler gripper or something with six fingers? The answer isn’t just about function. It’s about data. 🧵
At 1210 mm (3ft 11.5 inches) R1 is 110 mm shorter than G1 at 1320 mm Explains some of the weight loss
At $5900 and 26 DoF that is $226 per joint Actuators must be under $200 each Likely smaller motors with high gear ratio to get down to 25kg G1 was already a low 35kg, so quite the diet
Unitree Introducing | Unitree R1 Intelligent Companion Price from $5900 Join us to develop/customize, ultra-lightweight at approximately 25kg, integrated with a Large Multimodal Model for voice and images, let's accelerate the advent of the agent era!🥰
Starlink confirmed out in Germany since around 9:12 pm local time Multiple reboots results in this
Get lost in Jack's thread
📍 Robot localisation is the deca-billion-dollar problem no one talks about. Every mobile robot needs to know its location to within 2-5 cm. Sounds simple? It's not. Current solutions force an impossible choice: cheap but inflexible, or smart but fragile. This fundamental…
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc Fallacia homunculi
Obviously false, as I have reposted many Tesla light shows from around the world
The message: Tesla X merger completed next year. New symbol TESLX Optimus Gen 3 sans linear drives, adds wheels New compact so small it makes your head look big. 2nd under door handle It's now ok for Tesla drivers to forward park Or Grok image generation still needs wrok
If I ever rob a bank, I plan to wear this dress so the eyewitness testimony is conflicting
The possible path to 1M Optimi in 5 years per Elon's Q2 guidance 2025 1K Gen 2.5, Gen 3 year end prototype, retooling 2026 15K supply chain startup 2027 75K supply chain rampup 2028 250K 2029 500K 2030 1M