Anthony Duca

Physical AI / Robotics GTM at Unity, Tech enthusiast/inventor, and avid hiker.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@dnapway I like Palmer, but this is certainly an over simplification of reality.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@SevierlyBlessed @elonmusk @bot @mcuban @costplusdrugs What are you taking that you save $500/year? Must be quite expensive.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@enrico_milletti Would be interested in integrating your sensors into Unity’s new Simulation Pro solution for robotics simulation, training, and eval. I’m sure we’d have many customers that would be interested in testing them. Dm me and we can coordinate a meeting.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@lukas_m_ziegler @huggingface Impressive. How much would this cost to train? Or how much compute was used?

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@radbackwards Man, why do you gotta be like that. You’re making me feel bad 😂

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@Scobleizer @specs How dim is the world through the glasses. Is it basically like wearing sunglasses?

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@Scobleizer Wow that is a scale I’ve not heard of and I’m in the robotics simulation space. That is a real2sim2real loop that sounds incredible. I’d love to go behind the scenes and see it in action.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@YinghaoXu1 @SongShuran Very interesting. I’m with the Unity3D robotics team. Would love to chat with you.

[Duca @big_duca]

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[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@PTrubey AI is the long game for sure. I have bought and held. Not worrying about the day to day volatility. I know they are only going up over time.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@JeffBiesinger Your imagination needs exercise. How much technology invented could you have said something similar about when it was first showed!

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@Scobleizer @radbackwards @1x_tech Awesome. Look forward to more posts on what you learn.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@brian_armstrong 💯

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@ihorbeaver How much computer does this take? And it isn’t deterministic, correct? So sometimes it may take longer and more compute than others?

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@Scobleizer It’s a Cambrian explosion of robotics, and I’m here for it.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

Independent of how practical this is , the thing I love is the amount of innovation here, and there’s things here that will find its way into industry.

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

Hmmm. As I predicted, we had a fan car that sucks itself to the road for low speed cornering.

And it has back thrusters to allow it to get sub 1 second 0-60.

What I didn’t expect was bottom and gimbaling thrusters to allow it to jump over a Tesla Semi and other cars, do barrel rolls in the air and jump down and land from up high.

Production won’t be until 2028, so first deliveries maybe in 2 years. Is the COPV powered thruster package optional? Initially it was touted as an optional package, but now I’m not sure.

They had a half car buck there and I fit comfortably in it and it wasn’t horrible for my 63 year body to get in and out. But I saw a couple of taller guys struggle, and their knees were perched up sitting in it. It didn’t look like there would be any front/back seat adjustment. The steering wheel adjusted forwards and backwards, and maybe the pedals will too.

The car looked very angular, like a Lamborghini. Not at all like the 2017 Roadster. I didn’t love it. 2 seater, no mention of trunk space, or behind the seat storage. Actually Franz said the seats were part of the frame, so behind the seat storage is unlikely.

While the flying car concept made for a cool demo, we noticed that no human was in the car. Indeed, where and why would you pull stunts like that? If Tesla didn’t even feel comfortable putting a professional driver in there, what does that mean for the ordinary consumer?

And that’s my fear about this car. Elon said this would blow away track records. But that’s a race car, not a sports car. A race car necessarily has a very stiff suspension, a roll cage, and is built as light as possible.

That leaves no space or weight for practical things like trunk space, nor is it comfortable to drive. And to top it off, Elon implied the car wouldn’t even have FSD for those long trips to/from the track.

The demo left tons of questions unanswered.

In the end, we were shown four things. Flying ability which won’t be street legal nor safe for the average driver; sub 1 second 0-60, ditto; an uglier design; and a ducted fan car for cornering grip. Only 1 out of those four work for me.

Unless we get more info soon about the Roadster, I may drop my reservation and buy an actual sports car.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@PTrubey Great info. Thanks Phil. The thing I love is the amount of innovation here, maybe some of it’s not 100% practical, but there’s things here that will find its way into industry.

[Physical Intelligence @physical_int]

Announcing the beta release of the Pi API. We’ve partnered with companies across diverse industries to adapt our models to their robots and applications, from harvesting strawberries to assembling servers. Now we’re opening access to more teams.

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@mp3michael On my watch list!

[Anthony Duca @Anthonyduca]

@big_duca The new Unicorn bar is now $1T.