Alan Helmick

Co-Founder of and lover of Rapid Prototyping and Hardware design, robots, vision and learning systems and Physical AI

[Nebius @nebiusai]

BuilderShip is an AI hackathon co-hosted by @nebiusai, @composio, @tavilyai, and @openclaw. Finals are on a yacht on June 14, San Francisco Bay.

To apply: post something you've built (agent, demo, or repo) and tag all four accounts.

Every builder gets GPU credits, Token Factory inference keys, Composio integrations, Tavily search, and OpenClaw runtime from day one.

Top 30 builders make the finals. Winner takes home $50K in cloud credits and a DGX Spark.

Submit by June 12 → https://t.co/OHzftpPcva

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@hume_ai this is the way...

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@adcock_brett @hark_labs yes my robots speak naturally, laugh, get to know you, remember what you like and don't like and are fully emotionally aware and know who is talking from what direction

people love just talking to my robots. I call them companion robots, Chloe is getting new arms... <$5K robots

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@antoinepirrone gemma 4 is what my robots think on... very responsive and accurate so far

[Vaishabh Jalmi @VaishabhJ]

Open-source robotics is getting insane 🤯🦾 This is the SSG-48 Adaptive Electric Gripper — a fully open-source robotic gripper with force control, ROS2 support, Python API, and 3D printable parts. Perfect for robotics projects, AI robots, automation, and makers building futuristic hardware at home. 🚀 SSG48 adaptive electric gripper Project by Source robotics 👇 GitHub Link -SSG-48 Adaptive Electric Gripper GitHub https://t.co/U0NfIFSZic #robotics #opensource #engineering #robotarm #robotgripper automation airobot 3dprinting arduino raspberrypi mechatronics roboticsengineering opensourcehardware maker tech futuretech embedded electronics ros2 pythonprogramming

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

ソニーが開発したマイクロサージェリーロボットがトウモロコシの粒を縫合する様子が凄すぎる

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@earthtojake It's a cool looking design but I've seen MIT trained Roboticist have trouble implementing policies on these.

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@MarwaEldiwiny Lighting or misidentification of some kind maybe, it appears it just gives up and pushes the package before it's rotated properly.

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@adcock_brett He doesn't seem distracted by the other workers at all, when is his break? So my quick question is,what type of ancillary jobs are created by Helix so that these package handlers can get in to job tracks because we're gonna have a deficit real soon we need to get people trained

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@ashleevance It's called corporate culture, your product is behind because your view on finding good people to build it is out of focus.

Anyone who has used Instagram can see the lack of quality in this company.

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@AndrewYNg Any rapid innovation creates money moving quickly which creates jobs opening quickly which creates more opportunity

Learn to move towards the light people!

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@VectorWang2 Every time somebody asks me how do I get it to pick up item such as glass, I always say, backlight, backlight, so this is awesome!

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@cixliv @earthtojake @frontiertower Cool I'll have to check it out, we have about 12 unique brands of robot three or four we designed ourselves. R2D3 is my favorite. I will look how the PM01 stacks up

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@earthtojake That looks like every day at my office. Come visit us at Frontier Tower @frontiertower robots!

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@robotsdigest Yes I called that module in my code "fusion" where it laces the loom of sensory input into one unified system.

I have Chloe announce how she senses things to test, she says I see and hear you or I smell you but also I ask her where is something in relation to you.

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@VectorWang2 I watched two Realarms juggling yesterday and I think that's even more difficult than catching a ball, catching and holding three in the air.

Do juggling next. Excellent work Vector.

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@ysl_serena I said this on day one 🦾🤓🤣

[Alan Helmick @HelmickAlan]

@aaronistan Cool but very creepy, I don't want my furniture moving around.

[Jake Fitzgerald @earthtojake]

Vibe coding a robot with GPT 5.5!

This is a URDF of a 7dof robot arm with functional kinematics, a custom gui, and STEP parts/assembly, 100% generated in Codex (minus the gripper).

A similar result would have taken me weeks stitching half a dozen tools together. Insane stuff.