Ritwik Pandey

Building humanoids to help humans
Supply Chain @1x_tech
Ex-Founder

[Ritwik Pandey @Ritwikdau]

I LOVE YOU, NEO 🤍
@1x_tech

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@radbackwards @maticrobots Always proud to have been part of this team! Go @mehul!

[dar @radbackwards]

NEO fan mail yet

[Ritwik Pandey @Ritwikdau]

Turning engineering breakthroughs into deployable infrastructure and hardware all day everyday

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Any company working on smartphone innovation for North American markets?

I’m bored with current options

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It’s so fun figuring out something like humanoids that have not been manufactured before

This will be historical and the one who wins will set an example for when the robots are in abundance in our homes, factories and streets

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NPI -> MP

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@winnythetrue I will try with all the life in me

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Lost my Grandmother today and couldn’t even go be with my family at this time.

Last time I spoke to her she was in the hospital and told me she wouldn’t give up until I’m back, I was going home in 10 days and she knew I was coming so I know she fought hard.

She was the happiest to hear me talk passionately about work and all the stuff that I had in my mind - i asked for her blessings few weeks back and she told me “good bless you, your future wife and kids and your robot”

I came to work today because she wouldn’t want me to stop. I miss you with all my heart Amma

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@Scobleizer Means a lot 🤍

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@radbackwards I experienced it twice this year, beautiful feeling

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@vulturetrades Dude I’ll give you half is this is not a clickbait

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@mister_whistler Lmao

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

"Achieving greatness requires deliberately choosing to do the hard things"

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I don’t suffer from from ADHD I just have it

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@_sam_sinha_ @BerntBornich @1x_tech Welcome to the team Sam! LFG
🌍🌎🌏

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

We’re going all in on World Models.

Today we’re launching the 1X World Model Lab.

The bet is simple:

You can’t fine-tune your way to AGI.

And you definitely can’t fine-tune your way to robots that can operate in the physical world.

General-purpose humanoids need models that understand space, motion, objects, causality, affordances, physics, and action before they ever see a specific task.

The frontier is not better VLA wrappers.

The frontier is embodied world models.

The 1X World Model Lab will focus on large-scale embodied world model pretraining: building the most generalizable foundation model for humanoid robots from the ground up.

The next frontier in AI requires scaling:

web-scale media + egocentric human videos + sim + dexterous remote operated robot data + on-policy NEO data → real-world deployment for robot data collection and RL → abundance of data → physical AI

The robot collects data.
The model gets better.
The robot gets better.
Repeat.

To lead this, we brought in one of the best for the mission: @_sam_sinha_ , as Head of World Models.

Sam was a founding research scientist at Luma AI and has been at the frontier of scaling multimodal generative video models his whole career.

If you’re the best in the world at large-scale pretraining, video models, robotics, RL, infra, or data — and you want your models to move atoms, not just pixels — join us.

Send background + evidence of exceptional ability to:

[email protected]

We’re building the model that makes autonomous labor real.

[Ritwik Pandey @Ritwikdau]

@radbackwards 🤍🤎

[sarah guo @saranormous]

secret to doing hard things: work with people who are fun when things are hard

[Ritwik Pandey @Ritwikdau]

Data collection is a supply chain issue