Adam Allevato

Building AI for robots @Amazon FAR. PhD @UTAustin. Formerly @DiligentRobots, @OpenRoboticsOrg, @LosAlamosNatLab.

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@NathanBLawrence Good question - I may have lucked into getting one that has MDM disabled. Setting up remote debugging/ADB access was just like any other Android device.

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I made a defunct tabletop robot smart: https://t.co/cFP5q61oud

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@Allbirds is an AI company now. It will acquire GPUs to support AI compute.
This is is giving 2017 "Long Island Tea company is now on the blockchain" vibes

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https://t.co/LGBDbea3BG

In which I outline the risks.

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@opencode does this affect usage from your harness as well?

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Pretty wild email from @AnthropicAI , giving me a $100 credit to bury the lede that OpenClaw usage will require direct payment starting in 6 (!) hours

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First Marble yesterday, and now SIMA 2? Christmas is coming early

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SIMA 2 is our most capable AI agent for virtual 3D worlds. 👾🌐

Powered by Gemini, it goes beyond following basic instructions to think, understand, and take actions in interactive environments – meaning you can talk to it through text, voice, or even images. Here’s how 🧵

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@theworldlabs 's Marble platform is incredible! Game changer for robotics simulation environments.

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@aylacroft I just made a website that looks exactly like this spread (explaining matrix operations visually): https://t.co/sjQpfK2HPh

This is eerie

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I just built https://t.co/2S5gS4PcFz, an open source tool that visualizes PyTorch functions. Click any tensor element to see exactly how it contributes to the output - finally making functions like torch.gather intuitive. Go check it out!

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@karpathy There are studies that show that 7 is the most commonly-guessed number between one and 10. Perhaps 27 is most common between 1 and 50. Stochastic parrots strike again

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I'll be at #RSS2025 this weekend and next week. If you're at the conference (or in LA in general) and want to talk about real-world AI + robotics, hit me up.

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We have our requisite big tech outage of the summer. It’s intern season!

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@techreview beat me to this thought with an incredible article: https://t.co/NzCFzWxHun

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This AI+robotics boom is quickly driving us back towards peak cheap robot design: the 1984 Armatron. We had one in my childhood home, but I was rarely patient enough to get it to do what I wanted

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@AGrillz @ycombinator X25

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Vassar Robotics's Navrim robot sold out in a matter of hours! I didn't even have time to get home before they were gone.

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The Cone-E mobile robot platform was submitted in a paper. It can support 2x6DOF arms and has a telescoping lift. The BOM is <12k USD: https://t.co/UkrxPblTtf

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Two big advancements in low cost robot hardware today

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Vassar Robotics launched on Hacker News, selling an improved version of the SO-101 robot for cheaper than you can buy the parts yourself ($219): https://t.co/nY4Hf5fBnW