Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓

Founder & CEO @ PaintJet | Intersecting Construction, AI, Robotics & Materials Science | Husband, Father and Friend to Founders

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Happy to share this article by @lorakolodny in @CNBC about PaintJet's journey and approach to solving the labor shortage in the construction and maintenance industry.

We've been working to revolutionize the way buildings and ships are painted, and with the power of AI and our fleet of robotic painters, we've already covered over 1.5M square feet in less than three years.

We are immensely grateful for the hard work, vision, and commitment of our dedicated team and the support of our partners and investors.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/J9bfEaXNiY

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

@santoshsankar Gotta do what you gotta do

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

@WizLikeWizard Why hasn’t the sfo coffee robot worked?

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

@MartinGTobias Or the paint that’s sprayed on ships that’s designed to kill all life forms it comes in to contact with?

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

@santoshsankar @PaintJet239367 @OutsidersFund Teams been pushing to make the investor Nice List in ‘23! We appreciate you taking the plunge with us last year and look forward to continuing the next chapter.

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

@AdamBYoung Thanks! Teams been working like crazy to deliver

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Been absent from social for a bit, but it's been for a good reason: we’ve raised a $10M Series A round to bring critical automation to industrial painting.

With the fresh funding, we’re gearing up to increase our headcount (we’re hiring!) and relocate our headquarters to VA to support our entry into the marine business.

Thank you to our partners @OutsidersFund, @ThisIsDynamo, @PathbreakerVC, @MetaPropNYC, @VSCVentures, and @53Stations for backing our vision.

And thanks to @bheater of @TechCrunch for sharing our story: https://t.co/NOsx0XdmZu

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

I hate golf. But if you replace the word “golf” with just about anything, you’d probably end up being a pretty decent parent with some pretty decent kids who are generally happy and successful in their lives.

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

A lot of good parenting advice in this video

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

@santoshsankar I think I’ve got those covered 😂🤣

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Got some piled up Audible credits. Any recs heading into the new year? Looking to get a bit more granular into AI

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Last trip home from our Nashville office. End of an era…start of a new chapter.

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Awesome to see @geckorobotics partnering with the @USNavy to modernize the Columbia-class nuclear submarine program.

Partnerships that value speed and reliability are what we need to focus on building faster robotics today.

https://t.co/CFDin3lIlf

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

This is the way

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

It's a prerequisite in robotics to vertically integrate your hardware stack

There is no easy road

We have a saying at Figure: the only way out is through.

The next 12mo's, the big tech/ai companies will come back to robotics to embody their AI

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

I still have yet to see a single article saying why Sam was fired?? Plz help

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Investing in next-generation vessels is great, but you can’t forget about the maintenance infrastructure needed to accommodate these advancements.

Robotics can come into play here, performing maintenance operations faster, safer, and more accurate.

https://t.co/TF8PHOEVBw

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Confirmation bias, but encouraging just the same

[Lan Xuezhao @xuezhao]

Can LLMs predict the future for startups? Sounds impossible, but is it?

We've experimented with using LLMs to try to predict company outcomes, based on founder psychological attributes alone. Wow, it worked much better than anticipated! Read more and see your own results. ���

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Another amazing innovation in the field of construction!

Terran Robotics is addressing the affordable housing crisis with a creative solution: 3D-printed homes made from mud and other earthen materials.

https://t.co/FzLjgSDjTM

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Congrats to @PromiseRobotics on securing $15M in its Series A funding round! The AI company, focused on robotic systems for construction automation, plans to advance the commercialization of its robotic factory platform & support its expansion initiatives. https://t.co/fdSJWpD7Cx

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

@ICON3DTech is paving the way for the future on Earth and beyond! They’re tackling the housing crisis by making homes faster and more affordable with 3D printing & they teamed up with NASA to send a 3D printer to the moon to test & print landing pad parts.
https://t.co/72dyUuvIVF

[Nick Hegeman 🤖🏗️🧱🛢️⚓ @NHegeman]

Great news for the winter season: Insulative paint was created by @Stanford scientists to cut down energy usage for heating by 36% and cooling by 21%.

Can’t wait to see it in action!
https://t.co/jPDbpUITsK