Nikhil Devraj

taming robots @BostonDynamics

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@kevin_zakka @philippswu @pabbeel Congrats Kevin!!!

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@ericjang11 Best of luck Eric. I often remember your advice and your writing when I’m thinking through problems I’m working on. Looking forward to what you’re doing next!

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

A lot of these design decisions were learned from deploying and supporting Spot. And FWIW, internally a lot of us had qualms about the aesthetic too — but it’s hard to argue with how easy this design makes *everything*, whether manufacturing or safety or controls

[Matt Freed @mattfreed]

I see people bagging on the design - but reducing the amount of unique parts & simplifying assembly/maintenance in these industrial systems is such a major win

I support it. Simplify simplify simplify

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

We’re making great progress with our Gemini Robotics work in bringing AI to the physical world - a critical aspect of AGI. As part of our next steps, super excited to announce our partnership with @BostonDynamics, combining our SOTA robotics models with their world-class hardware

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

New robot!

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Boston Dynamics (owned by Hyundai) just unveiled a stationary prototype of the new Atlas humanoid on stage at CES 2026.

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@radbackwards tfti

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

Love seeing RL robustness demos, these tasks are impressive

[Sergey Levine @svlevine]

We just released results for our newest VLA from Physical Intelligence: π*0.6. This one is trained with RL, and it makes it quite a bit better: often doubles throughput, enables real-world tasks like folding real laundry and making espresso drinks at the office.

[Lucas Manuelli @lucas_manuelli]

Today I’m proud to share what I’ve been working on recently with my team at @BostonDynamics along with our collaborators at @ToyotaResearch .

https://t.co/yExkGIdwxb

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@aaronistan Absolutely amazing design choice and very well-timed. I really hope this takes off!

[Boston Dynamics @BostonDynamics]

Atlas is demonstrating reinforcement learning policies developed using a motion capture suit. This demonstration was developed in partnership with Boston Dynamics and @rai_inst.

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@kevin_zakka Awesome!!

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

every time I stay in the office at night I’m simultaneously pleased and terrified by the robots constantly strolling right behind me

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@simonkalouche Just saying, this comparison is odd. You’re comparing middleware to a programming language. You could rewrite ROS in Rust if you wanted to (and which you probably did to some degree)

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@ansonyuu AT&T would be an interesting one

[Boston Dynamics @BostonDynamics]

Atlas is autonomously moving engine covers between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly, using ML to detect and localize the environment fixtures and individual bin. There are no prescribed or teleoperated movements. https://t.co/br63dMoB7C

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@jasminewsun so the word “taste” describes both a fifth and a sixth sense

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

@ericjang11 @1x_tech Curious — what’s up with all the purple? Flipped channels? (Or something more interesting?)

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

Already know some cheeky grad student is gonna use “Concepts of a Plan” as part of their next paper’s title

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

The holy grail of graphics

(via Ivan Sutherland’s “The Ultimate Display”)

[Nikhil Devraj @NikDevraj]

The fact that context was added to this video is interesting. in the limit, it should make no difference to a user whether a robot is being teleoperated or moving autonomously if it gets its job done. that *should* only matter to the seller

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

In last week's S3 @1x_tech shared their plans to quickly deploy Neo, their new robot, in homes.

So I asked if they'd put Neo in my home.