Zaza

AI engineer (ex. Google/Disney/Fortnite) Computer Vision, AI Health & Safety, 3D printing. I love robots.

[Zaza @AIkingdome]

@cixliv @cbames They got him. @cbames you better work out that blasphemy on the plane ride or yo ass is gonna have a round trip back.

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@REK @Polymarket Extreme head butting roller derby

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@carlosdponx @LouisLeLay4 I heard that. How is it Friday already. I feel like I just opened my laptop on Monday.

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@BotNewsAI @_raghuvamsi bro give me one of those robots and I’ll giggle like a little girl too

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Rise of the robot pets! 🐕🤖

We’re entering the cutest era of robotics.

Engineers are working day and night on the physical AI problems: control, contact, sim-to-real, hardware reliability and getting learned behaviors to survive outside the lab.

And somewhere along the way, we get this.

@_raghuvamsi filmed one of @eyecandyrobots’ characters wandering around the Presidio, where a little girl spotted it and immediately started laughing and playing with it.

There’s something joyfully familiar about that reaction. Before we learn what something is, what it costs or what it’s supposed to do, sometimes we just want to meet it.

@eyecandyrobots is building physical AI characters,
robots designed around entertainment, personality and interaction rather than industrial work.

Founded by @_raghuvamsi, @Mankaran32 and @pr0t0_01, the team brings robotics engineers, animators and designers together to turn animated characters into physical ones.

Underneath the cute exterior is serious robotics work:

☑️Animation-based reinforcement learning for character motion
☑️ Artist-centric human-robot interaction
☑️Mechanical, electronics and AI systems designed to scale across different characters
☑️ Simulation, SLAM, deep learning and control-policy deployment on real hardware

The transparent little robot really looks like that.

I asked Eyecandy engineer @hi_gpaul how they made its clear body: it’s 3D printed using transparent resin, followed by “a bunch of post processing.”

Eyecandy is backed by @fdotinc and Lightspeed India, and the team is already thinking beyond a single character.

The robots are becoming useful.

I’m also very happy that some of them are becoming friends. 🦖

🔗 https://t.co/odDpP6uvLY☑️
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[Zaza @AIkingdome]

@josefprusa @loyalmoses I mean I can name you and know you by haribo gummy bears. I prefer the AMS system. But I can’t name the other 3D printing CEOs. It did its job well.

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@astridwilde1 You’re a lover of the people. You have my vote.

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@NumanThabit

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@cixliv @tamarajtran Fr. That's not how prompt injecting works....it wouldn't even be running a model like that. Their business is teleop at your house. People are on their last brain cell.

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If you haven’t heard the Microducks sing you’re missing out 🦆🎶

@huggingface w/ @pollenrobotics just opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm, under-800 g biped that somehow manages to be both an RL robotics platform and a tiny mechanical duck I desperately want wandering around my workshop.

It has 15 degrees of freedom, a camera, two IMUs, an 8×8 time-of-flight depth sensor and an articulated beak. Its policies run onboard at 50 Hz, with skills trained in MuJoCo using reinforcement learning and transferred onto the real robot.

But please return your attention to the duck choir.

Every Microduck gets its own generated voice, derived from its SoC serial. Put multiple ducks together and they can perform a chorale over Bluetooth.

There’s no shared clock. The lowest-ID duck conducts, broadcasts the beat through BLE advertisements, and the others average their timing over roughly 25 beats to stay synchronized. They even work out who sings bass, tenor and the remaining parts without a central controller assigning them.

You can also wave your hand in front of the depth sensor and turn the duck into a theremin. Obviously.

The software stack is open source, including the SDK, simulator and RL training stack, so owners can retrain behaviors and deploy their own policies. The hardware itself is not open source.

Pre-orders opened today at $399, with deliveries targeted before Christmas.

My duck is secured 🦆

Microduck:
https://t.co/GXJz2FotgL

Technical docs:
https://t.co/MO8bt1NlUW

[Zaza @AIkingdome]

@iamBarronRoth @taurobots Are your kids wearing WiFi routers as punishment?

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@radbackwards Where we dropping our backgammon board boys

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He just unleashed the beast from the Middle East… my brothers, your time has come

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

perhaps I owe an apology to everyone trying to sell me egocentric data

this stuff is actually useful

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Need a weirdly easy side hustle?

Figure will now pay approved users by the minute to do normal things inside their own homes while generating training data for humanoid robots.

Taking the trash out doesn’t feel so bad when @adcock_brett is paying you

#jobs #tech #news

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@veritaschips @Nike Can you put this in my charizard card

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@MeRTcooking This is cool dude

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@radbackwards Catch me at the farmers market rizzin on the aunties with my tote bag

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“ChatGPT Moment” for every announcement is getting so washed out

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@r_zthai @NumanThabit Damn bro has a diverse following 😅🤣

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I need @NumanThabit to start tweeting again.