Michael Laskey

shipping robots
CTO @sheeprobotics | ex @berkeley_ai Phd

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

When I Joined @sheeprobotics , I saw a company with an insane vision laid out by @MurtyNag .

Billions of low-cost robots sustainably caring for our planet.

I am very excited to announce my new title as Chief Technology Officer to make this vision a reality.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

if a sub <100 mm company can build deepseek

no one leads ai right now and there is alpha in being under-valued

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

my partner switched to deepseek cause the whale was cute .... b2c is rough

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

@DJiafei robotics with sim needs really low resources to work ... we train and ship general robots with <100k compute

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Lol ... yeah you can't stop this technology.

Its just not that hard to build this stuff is the core issue. Unlike nuclear or missiles, this is pure software innovations.

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

DeepSeek is a wake up call for America, but it doesn’t change the strategy:

- USA must out-innovate &race faster, as we have done in the entire history of AI
- Tighten export controls on chips so that we can maintain future leads

Every major breakthrough in AI has been American

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

id argue CoT style RL is more like MPC then model-free RL

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

@simonkalouche @zxlava shout out to lawn mowers ... definitely not sitting around waiting.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

its like a hype pump and dump

[Sam Altman @sama]

twitter hype is out of control again.

we are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it.

we have some very cool stuff for you but pls chill and cut your expectations 100x!

[Jiafei Duan @DJiafei]

Every time I watch this video, I can't help but wonder: why don't we have robot butlers in our homes yet? The hardware seemed capable 14 years ago with teleoperation. Is it just the "robot brain" we're missing, or is there more to the puzzle?

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

if o3 is using a task specific process reward model that is learned from supervised data.

Isn't that the definition of narrow ai?

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

@fchollet is it really a break through though if you collect a bunch of training data for the process reward model?

I feel like it still is task specific narrow ai; in that regards.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

we need a standardize watermark to add to all digital ai content

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I don't think people know that making plausible fake videos is now something that doesn't require a lot of skill or time

I made this Veo video of a man trying out a flying skateboard at CES from a text prompt, 2nd try. Notice the shadows, green light, his body shifts for balance

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Its wild the first e2e self-driving car was in 1989

Makes you really appreciate how hard it is to scale robots.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

@pthangeda_ its actually pretty uncharted waters .. @sheeprobotics we assume all liability for our products when in autonomous operation.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Try selling an agent controlling commercial grade lawn mowers .... whole different level of liability challenges

[BURKOV @burkov]

When considering the acquisition of AI agent solutions or engaging contractors to implement agents in your workflows, ensure your contract includes an indemnification clause holding the provider liable for any material or financial losses directly attributable to the agents' actions. Then see how many providers will be willing to sign.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

i think the biggest lesson for anyone looking to ship robots is to really appreciate the difference between 90% and 99.9%

that is two orders of magnitude in reliability and yes your customer will expect it

[chris @cwamidon]

Hardware founders: stop being cowards. I know what you say in private.

Stop bowing to VCs because you want your next round. Speak your actual mind.

Venture returns have been shit for years. They can’t afford to blackball good companies because you disagree with them.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Great master plan ... you learn so much by shipping regardless of form factor.

[vivek @jokrvivek]

Robotics too

@maticrobots master plan:

1. Make the best robotic vacuum (Market: 20 mil sold in 2024; growing @ 30% YoY📈)
2. Generate free cash flow
3. Use ☝️ money & all the learnings to invent *and ship* a home declutter robot
4. General purpose humanoid

We've started step 3

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

@barancezayirli @rohanpaul_ai well said.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Got to give a talk on what we are building at @sheeprobotics .

Agents for outdoor labor are coming.

[Electric Sheep @sheeprobotics]

Because of the lack of real world data feedback loops - the chatgpt moment for robotics isnt going to happen in in the lab.

We need to build deployment engines at the scale of a Tesla - bootstrapped by sim-trained models.

Hear our CTO @Michaellaskey7 talk about how we are building and scaling end to end ML for outdoor work.

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Great read from @rodneyabrooks
https://t.co/m9BXOMItgT

@sheeprobotics we learned the more you can just make the tech work in existing supply chains you can get 10x multiples asap.