Salar al Khafaji

Founder/CEO @BuildMonumental

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

@steijnpelle Congrats on the launch! 🚀

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Berlin just hosted the best robotics meetup in Europe. 🦾

We wanted to get 50 friends together. 500 people applied once we put a private page up.

The demos were all made in Europe: a fully autonomous electric tractor that lifts 4 tons (Voltrac). A multi-ton autonomous excavator (sensmore). Drones built fully in Europe (HIGHCAT). Anti-drone lasers (Stealth). Strike systems delivered by balloon (Planetfall). A payload that sees landmines through soil (Sapper Intelligence). Multiple robot arms working perfectly in sync (EVASIVE ROBOTICS). Satellite defense lasers (also Stealth). Actual Star Wars stuff.

The reason we do this is simple. If these tractors, robots, lasers aren't developed and produced in Europe, they'll be built elsewhere. We need these jobs here. These manufacturing sites here.

And the best way to get more founders building them is to show what's already possible and inspire the next ones.

Next stops: Today in Athens (join us here, link 👇), soon in Munich and London.

If you want to host one, hit us up.

This is CLANKERS by PROTOTYPE.

For Europe. 🇪🇺🔥

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

@SamuelBeek @DominiqueCAPaul We built Monumental on a ludicrous amount of unreturned Albert Heijn crates, you really don't need fancy boxes

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

@SamuelBeek So amazing. Well done!

[sam @SamuelBeek]

loved this talk by @lucasmeijer :)
the demo video thing is genius!

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

Or go check them out on YouTube: https://t.co/A4FHGN79Ja

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

We decided to organize a meetup around agentic coding last week. We're talking about it non-stop at @BuildMonumental, we've been doing internal sessions to learn from each other, so why not invite a couple others as an experiment?

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

Bootstrapping agentic systems by @fjakobs

[Alexander Fitzgerald @AFitzgerald1992]

Today @IsembardGroup announces our $50m Series A. More factories, more engineers, more countries. If not now, when...

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[Viraj Acharya @_virajacharya]

"That's taken us like a couple of years now to build that trust. And I think we're getting much, much better at it."

@sfvisser , @BuildMonumental explains:

"You're an outsider. You're doing the very weird trick on a site that is totally not used to it."

"If they see an actual wall being developed by a robot or like several robots at the same time in different segments and someone's just standing next to it like this and not interacting at all, that is very magical."

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

@andreasklinger Insane to read this. Your YouTube has been one of the best things that happened to our recruiting funnel.

[Viraj Acharya @_virajacharya]

"People love robotics in general. It's just a fun topic. It's just Legos for Grownups."

@sfvisser, breaks down the type of talent him and @salar attract at @BuildMonumental:

"One thing that's fun for me is that almost everyone is bought into the mission of fixing the housing crisis. It's a very easy story, right? Very easy mission."

"We're really looking for people who understand this through all the layers, who are willing to see a very technical problem and get messy, get dirty, collect data, then back into the office and fix it."

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

Niall's post: https://t.co/YN1Og5lkmQ

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

Niall, one of our first hardware engineers, just wrote an amazing post about his journey, on dropping out of his Masters (highly recommended for many talented people!) and joining @BuildMonumental in the first very months of being founded.

[Salar al Khafaji @salar]

If you're into hardware, there is probably no team more exciting to join today than Monumental's hardware team. We're hiring Mechanical, Mechatronics, and Electrical Engineers (besides many other roles!) https://t.co/1sKJfDLIVx