Stephen Delaporte

Founder & CEO of Lepton Computing — an early pioneer of flexible display / foldable smartphones.

Also an inventor of medical devices and robots.

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For posterity, Jony Ive filed this patent on Sept 28th, 2011, which was 1 week before Jobs died on Oct 5th, 2011. Honored that he cited me.

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Greatly enjoyed speaking on the Physical AI panel at the Microsoft sponsored GenAI Summit this month where I had the honor of sharing the main stage with Chandrakant Patel (former Chief Engineer of HP), Kahini Shah (Obvious Ventures partner), and Peter Coats (ex-Google investor).

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Earlier this year, I premiered a new kind of planetary rover design that implements the VPT robotic transmission I’ve been developing over the last few years. This was a short clip from a show that aired on Bloomberg TV which highlighted Avar’s robotic system #robot #rover #Mars

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“Detection of Dimethyl Sulphide is at the three-sigma level of statistical significance”:
https://t.co/o2nCQO4lL7

[Firefly Aerospace @FireflySpace]

We have confirmation #BlueGhost stuck the landing! Firefly just became the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing. This small step on the Moon represents a giant leap in commercial exploration. Congratulations to the entire Firefly team, our mission partners, and our @NASA customers for this incredible feat that paves the way for future missions to the Moon and Mars.

Standby for the first image, expected in the next 30 minutes! #BGM1

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Great to see that Apple is betting the next phase of their company in part on foldable smartphones — this news comes 17 years after I built / filed patents on the first foldable display smartphone prototypes, so it’s a brilliant development to read about! https://t.co/LbW0X92daV

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Really enjoyed speaking as part of the SLM / Edge AI panel on the main stage at the GenAI Summit in Silicon Valley last week. Spoke on an incredible panel that included a Qualcomm VC, Comp. Sci. professors from UC, Davis and Duke and the founder of Plaud AI. #EdgeAI #GenAI

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Honored to be speaking on a panel about Edge AI for the Microsoft sponsored GenAI Summit in Silicon Valley tomorrow at the Santa Clara Convention Center! Please check out our session at 3:15 pm on the main stage. https://t.co/GuMsHZx6LT #GenAI #AI #SLM #EdgeAI #Microsoft

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That's a wrap! Excited to share more about my VPT robotic transmission invention on a segment we recently filmed for a show that will air on Bloomberg. #Bloomberg #Robotics #AI #Technology

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Excited to share that last week a show for Bloomberg filmed a segment covering my newest robotic invention (a unique transmission that will bring greater power, versatility, and energy efficiency to articulated robot arm joints and mobile robots) which will air in two months!

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So proud to see how far along foldable smartphones have come over the last 4 years (couldn’t have imagined this when I started building the earliest prototypes back in 2007 / 2008): https://t.co/HNbvqzMiO0

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Big news for the foldable device industry (been waiting 17 years for this news!): “Apple has allegedly signed a deal with Samsung for foldable displays for the first folding iPhone” https://t.co/cHTv6CgGxk

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“A U.S.-Built Spacecraft Lands on the Moon for the First Time Since 1972”
https://t.co/2TTfcOPgYS

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“World’s Oldest Pyramid Found Not in Egypt or Americas, But in Indonesia”https://t.co/IBxPNQd8Mf

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The flexible display smartphone revolution continues to expand with Google’s reveal of their first foldable device: The Pixel Fold #Google #Lepton #Foldables https://t.co/e0ORgTDxEx

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While my company Lepton Computing was the first US company to build and patent flexible touch screen display smartphones, @Google will be the first US company to launch one. Congrats Google! #historic #lepton #google https://t.co/npHW0wbQJm

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Huawei’s new foldable phone the Mate X3 is as light and nearly as a thin (in its folded state) as an iPhone 14 pro max — this is the biggest news for foldables since the launch of the Samsung Fold https://t.co/dNlPWPH1bs

[Bloomberg @business]

Apple says consumers are willing to “stretch” to buy pricier iPhones, potentially signaling that an Ultra or foldable model may be coming, @markgurman writes in this week’s Power On https://t.co/5LDABicYf5

[NASA @NASA]

We are going.

For the first time, the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion fly together. #Artemis I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.

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This is an amazing review of the Samsung Fold4. Really speaks to how much foldable devices are evolving. #Fold4 #Smartphones https://t.co/GgTH0qQxaV

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Feast your eyes on the beautiful spiral structure of the Phantom Galaxy, M74, as seen by Webb in the mid-infrared. Delicate filaments of dust and gas wind outwards from the center of the galaxy, which has a ring of star formation around its nucleus. https://t.co/pPVvxsC6KA