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Excited to introduce Proxie, our first cobot, to the world today!

Tesla FSD 12 feels like a ChatGPT 3.5 moment. It’s not perfect, but it’s super impressive and you can tell it’s something very different. Can’t wait for the ChatGPT 4 equivalent.

Meet Proxie, tomorrow 8am Pacific!

Excited to unveil our cobot, Proxie, next week! Follow me here to be sure you see it. The future is here.

This has gotten 16M views, but no evidence has been provided that any robotics company is having the problems with edge inference he mentions. I know of no one resetting their GPUs every few hours. Plus silicon isn’t really stateful, so how does resetting them help?

I walked around Cambridge and Boston at night this week and it felt entirely safe and comfortable. Magical really. And I wasn’t the only one, the city was vibrant at night. This is not the experience I’ve had in Seattle or SF in the past 10 years. There might be a model here.

Wednesday was World Autism Awareness Day. Publicly I talk a lot about robotics, leadership, ai, startups. Privately, autism has significantly shaped our lives. Meet our older daughter Belle. Belle is now 17. At 22 months she was diagnosed with autism after having her evaluated because she had not developed speech. We knew life with no communication skills would be extremely challenging. For the next 4 years, we pushed Belle to work extremely hard to learn basic phonemes before she could even start to put together individual words. And she’s continued to work hard to develop speech ever since. Autism presents very differently in each kid. Belle is a sweet kid with gifts in emotional intelligence and physical coordination that many of her autistic peers struggle with. But we’ve never had a back and forth conversation with her, and may never. She understands a lot, but she can’t tell us how her day went at school. She simply lacks large language model generative capability. It wasn’t until age 15 that she could consistently answer “do you want A or B?” questions without simply repeating the last word. But we obviously love her deeply. The attached video in the comments is deeply meaningful to us because in our little night time game of tossing her her stuffies, she’s learned to string together three phrases: {stuffie name}… throw it to me… up high. For Belle to get here has taken as much work as getting accepted into a top university and we’re just as proud of her. A special thank you to the army of educators and specialists who have helped Belle along the journey and in doing so offered deep support to our family. We’re endlessly grateful.

Can we start the campaign for an age limit for Presidents now? Let’s not have this happen again. 70 seems like the max.

The simple reality that everyone is finally is waking up to is that humanoid robots actually suck for commercial applications. They’re slow, they’re weak, they’re expensive, they’re power hungry, and they’re dangerous. They’re at best entertainment robots for dancing and parties.

I don’t think there’s anything funny to be rofl about in this. But this is also a far more accurate portrayal of the state of humanoid robotics today than we see in many video. Functionally safe controllers for a bipedal balancing system is not a solved problem.

Excited to introduce Proxie, our first cobot, to the world today!

Tesla FSD 12 feels like a ChatGPT 3.5 moment. It’s not perfect, but it’s super impressive and you can tell it’s something very different. Can’t wait for the ChatGPT 4 equivalent.

This has gotten 16M views, but no evidence has been provided that any robotics company is having the problems with edge inference he mentions. I know of no one resetting their GPUs every few hours. Plus silicon isn’t really stateful, so how does resetting them help?

Excited to unveil our cobot, Proxie, next week! Follow me here to be sure you see it. The future is here.

Meet Proxie, tomorrow 8am Pacific!

Can we start the campaign for an age limit for Presidents now? Let’s not have this happen again. 70 seems like the max.

I walked around Cambridge and Boston at night this week and it felt entirely safe and comfortable. Magical really. And I wasn’t the only one, the city was vibrant at night. This is not the experience I’ve had in Seattle or SF in the past 10 years. There might be a model here.

Wednesday was World Autism Awareness Day. Publicly I talk a lot about robotics, leadership, ai, startups. Privately, autism has significantly shaped our lives. Meet our older daughter Belle. Belle is now 17. At 22 months she was diagnosed with autism after having her evaluated because she had not developed speech. We knew life with no communication skills would be extremely challenging. For the next 4 years, we pushed Belle to work extremely hard to learn basic phonemes before she could even start to put together individual words. And she’s continued to work hard to develop speech ever since. Autism presents very differently in each kid. Belle is a sweet kid with gifts in emotional intelligence and physical coordination that many of her autistic peers struggle with. But we’ve never had a back and forth conversation with her, and may never. She understands a lot, but she can’t tell us how her day went at school. She simply lacks large language model generative capability. It wasn’t until age 15 that she could consistently answer “do you want A or B?” questions without simply repeating the last word. But we obviously love her deeply. The attached video in the comments is deeply meaningful to us because in our little night time game of tossing her her stuffies, she’s learned to string together three phrases: {stuffie name}… throw it to me… up high. For Belle to get here has taken as much work as getting accepted into a top university and we’re just as proud of her. A special thank you to the army of educators and specialists who have helped Belle along the journey and in doing so offered deep support to our family. We’re endlessly grateful.

The simple reality that everyone is finally is waking up to is that humanoid robots actually suck for commercial applications. They’re slow, they’re weak, they’re expensive, they’re power hungry, and they’re dangerous. They’re at best entertainment robots for dancing and parties.

I don’t think there’s anything funny to be rofl about in this. But this is also a far more accurate portrayal of the state of humanoid robotics today than we see in many video. Functionally safe controllers for a bipedal balancing system is not a solved problem.

A significant portion of the US equities market is foreign owned. Are we confident that investment flows back eventually? Or does global decoupling lead to a permanent drop in our stock market?

Interested in a new theory for how the Great Pyramids were built? Check out the Porter-Douglas Counterweight theory.