@paulg@garrytan This has been exactly my theory. Garage is where you can gather with friends to actually do something productive. No garage in Europe = kids go to drink in the park instead.
@ir_rkp This mindset is a step backward. Finnish people love their language, and it will not go anywhere. + It is a superpower Finns have, to speak when nobody else understands. But in terms of pragmatism, progress, innovation, and prosperity, English should be made the third official.
Excited to launch a DeskMe POC at @OIH_Osaka (Osaka Innovation Hub)! A city-backed startup community helping spread a startup mindset across the Kansai region.
"Things will just be free in the future. Sounds nuts, but if you've got an AI or robotics economy that is anywhere close to million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met. If you can think of it, you can have it"
一 Elon Musk
Gemini can now transform your questions and complex concepts into customizable interactive visualizations directly in your chat.
Adjust variables, rotate 3D models, and explore data for a more immersive way to learn and explore in Gemini.
In house tactile sensor prototype. Detects taps, motion, and multiple contact with force magnitudes.
Built to be cheap, robust, and replaceable. Not in our demos yet, still WIP.
We pair simple tactile sensing with torque transparent joints to recover rich contact without expensive sensors.
Brett Adcock talking about Figure 03 robot's "soft wrap" while casually interacting with it. We will be hearing this name more and more, in the future.
Brett Adcock unzips the Figure humanoid on the Shawn Ryan Show to reveal the hardware underneath.
Figure uses a "soft wrap" system that allows anyone to change the robot's clothes—no tools needed. Under the hood, it’s all GPUs, batteries, and 40 high-performance joints.
What do billionaires optimise for when hiring?
@adcock_brett founder of Figure AI discussed what he looks for in a hire on the WTF Online Podcast:
"I think the conventional wisdom is to go out and hire somebody really experienced, that makes you feel really good, from a really good background, at a successful company. And I found that playbook is just complete crap. Throw that right out the door.
Even now, Figure has gotten to a point where we have these big shots knocking on our door wanting to come work here, from big companies and wherever else. But it's just not the right approach.
If you look at every generational company, it's not like they went out and picked the VP here and the VP here and the VP here and put it together. It's like the opposite of what Meta is doing right now. Look at Meta's superintelligence lab. It's like putting 15 Tom Bradys together and making that work. It's just immediately going to collapse. It's not going to work.
My view is you just need to find people that really care. That's the core axiom of what I look for in talent."
@JoelSercel A startup idea: make a hyper-realistic computer game of building data centers in space, including all steps: catching asteroids, mining on the Moon, deploying solar panel arrays and whatever else it takes. It would become a great simulator to prepare for actual space deployments.