Ivan Tregear

CTO | Co-Founder | Costco Gold Start Holder | Youngest Chartered Mechanical Engineer, UK

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Today, @KAIKAKU_AI is joining REEF.

We engineered the autonomy. REEF built the platform and scale to deploy it, having raised more than $1.5B from investors including @SoftBank and @Mubadala.

We're not here to merely to build an impressive robot. We're here to prove that the technology was ready, the unit economics worked and the only thing left was scale.

REEF is that scale.

More soon.

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

Ideal advent calendars for hardware engineers

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Meet Alesia: the only AI Copilot designed for physical intelligence in restaurants, powered by computer vision.

We know restaurant ops aren't numbers on a dashboard as it has unpredictable human dynamics. So we trained her on 20,000+ hours of physical computer vision data and trillions of data points.

Results: 90% demand prediction accuracy, 50% food waste savings and 30% increase in customer return rate since we launched her as a prototype.

The future of restaurants isn’t human vs. machine - it’s human with machine.

And for every operator who’s ever closed a shift in tears at 2am: Alesia is just the beginning.

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

Just dropped 4 @ScalingEurope podcast episodes with:

@Thom_Wolf from @huggingface
@maltekosub from @parloa_ai
@IvanTregear from @KAIKAKU_AI
@SelimBenayat fromn @nothing

Check them out here:

https://t.co/sYPsTIFiEO

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

I think my CTO just became UK's youngest official Chartered Mechanical Engineer at age 24

That's why we win

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

3 patent filings, 20+ granted design rights, and 2500+ Onshape commits.

Like SpaceX, we developed every component from scratch = 90% cost savings.

Built in a few months by 3 engineers locked in a room with no sunlight in the middle of London.

Stress-tested daily in a live restaurant: we build, serve, wash, iterate.

The world's leading operating platform rewriting the restaurant labour model.

Coming in 2025.

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Revealing the world’s best science-backed culinary AI soon. Research preview of our 300-dimensional flavour similarity model created using ML.

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

Fully articulatable (once a lot of support removed) print-in-place 5DOF robot arm by @therobotstudio.

Haven’t finished cleaning it up, had to share it as soon as it moved. 3.5 hours on my BL A1 mini.

Insane.

https://t.co/RZmp0boLsd

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

More UK companies should start their mornings like this

[Piers Millar @POPMillar]

Engineers continuing to keep the renovation bill low.

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Did you really achieve PMF if your most loyal customer doesn’t say it’s better than s*x?

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

Awesome parallel joint use from @EnchantedTools for some really life-like neck movement #ICRA2024

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

This little guy is made from a bunch of $400 all-in-one actuators (reduction, driver, even water cooling inc.). Similarly priced if not cheaper than Chinese counterparts (e.g: T-Motor). Very cool from Westwood Robotics #ICRA2024

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Slowly figuring out how to keep 3D prints food-safe. ATP results speak for themselves

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

@ylanrich @josefchen @horrell_louis Hi Ylan, would also love to know more

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

Unitree humanoid robot for just $16k at #ICRA2024

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

@pTinosq Fire

[Ivan Tregear @IvanTregear]

Last minute revision…

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

@KennethCassel Exactly why @IvanTregear created one from scratch for @KAIKAKU_AI

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Letting @IvanTregear cook