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[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

I’ll try and compress 20 years of experience into 30 seconds

Startups have a GREAT FILTER that kills almost everyone. It’s there to weed out the people who aren’t meant to build companies

The good news is it can be beaten - even with little or no capital. Once you beat it, you can do it again. You can choose to stay at the current level or attempt to level up

The level boss is always the same: if you quit, you fail

I can’t stress this enough: almost every skill can be learned. Never stop improving. You can acquire new skills, hire better people, change the product, pivot the strategy, or rethink your assumptions

You’ll hit the wall. Most will quit. But just keep going

If something isn’t working, change course. Change your vector: reassess your hypothesis, measure the results, and keep iterating

Also working hard compounds. The more quality work you can put in, the better your odds. There is no balance

Almost nobody succeeds on their first attempt

If you want it badly enough, you can bend the future in your direction

Just start. And keep pushing

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

https://t.co/eq0oL4fIaR

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

https://t.co/mFvSsFIzlm

[Jake Fitzgerald @earthtojake]

asked claude fable 5 to design a humanoid robot

2 hours and 1.4m tokens later, i got this

absolutely insane

[RoboHub🤖 @XRoboHub]

So there’s a shopping-assistant humanoid working in a German hardware store now. 🤖

It’s called Schotti, built on a Unitree G1, with the cost math down to €1.70 per hour.

It answers where products are, then walks customers to the right aisle inside a Sonderpreis Baumarkt.

From dancing on stage, to guiding real shoppers, then picking products and getting them to your door — that’s how humanoids slip into service work.

[Fabio Bottacci 🇮🇹 @VINCI_Digital🇧 @fabot70]

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#industrial #iot #ai #genai #agenticai #physicalai #humanoids https://t.co/mUeUeelRFH

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho are two of the most violent criminal organizations in Brazil. Their reach extends throughout our region and into our country. 

Today, I designated these organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. 

The Trump Administration will continue using every available tool to protect our national security interests and deny funding and resources to narco-terrorists.

https://t.co/x3cPYjelwZ

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Atlas moves with incredible grace for a 198-pound hunk of metal.

Its lower-body fluidity is wild, especially the way it manages those toe-lead steps.

[Ronald van Loon @Ronald_vanLoon]

Kepler’s K2 Bumblebee Makes History with World-First Human-#Robot High-Altitude Welding Mission
by @spaceandtech_

#Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

Conference Room Mess Cleanup Test: Unitree WVLA 2.0 Model🎉
This video was recorded in a single take.
Multi-task, fully autonomous operation. Strong external interference present.

[Boston Dynamics @BostonDynamics]

Everyone asks if Atlas can bring them a drink, but this robot can bring you the whole fridge. Using AI-driven behaviors, Atlas is doing hard work and coordinating its whole body to manage heavy objects, balancing complex contact points with accuracy and reliability.

[Figure @Figure_robot]

Day 2 is Live: Watch humanoid robots Bob, Frank, and Gary running 24/7. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/dsacH4HOzJ

[Reuters @Reuters]

A London-based robotics startup says it has built an AI 'brain' that can teach humanoid robots new physical skills in days rather than months, as the race to put humanoids to work in factories and warehouses accelerates

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

More body positions than atoms in the universe?

"The robot’s made up of ~40 motors. Every motor can spin 360 degrees, all the way around.

So mathematically, how many states it could be in? Body positions, is 360 to the power of 40."

"The difficulty here is, how do you control it? You can’t write code to make this work."

Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) Founder & CEO of Figure (@Figure_robot)

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

BREAKING: First-Ever Full Tour of Figure's Humanoid HQ

CEO Brett Adcock

Exclusive look through every department on their San Jose campus:

BotQ Factory, Testing, Design, Demos & more.

Brett walks us through how Figure is built:
- System integration lab: where robots are stress-tested with software faults & physical pushes
- Helix AI: team floor where the controls & neural network engineers train the vision-language-action model that runs onboard every Figure robot
- Reinforcement learning & stability testing: where Figure demos the Vulcan project — surviving a lost knee mid-task
- Home: environment where Figure 03 autonomously tidies a living room using their Helix neural network (no teleoperation)
- BotQ: manufacturing facility where heads, batteries, and limbs come together on the assembly line, including the custom-built battery line & end-of-line burn-in bays
- Industrial design studio: (opened publicly for the first time) housing every generation of Figure robot ever built, including: Figure 01 with its Frankenstein forearms, Figure 02, & the sleek Figure 03 that recently appeared at the White House, plus the evolution of Figure's hands & feet

Brett shares why he believes humanoid robots may achieve AGI before any other form factor, why Figure pivoted entirely from hand-coded controls to neural networks, & teases that Figure 04 will be their "iPhone 1 moment."

This was so much fun!

Big thank you to Brett & the team at Figure for opening the doors for us!

@adcock_brett @Figure_robot

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Inside Figure’s Humanoid Campus
(00:48) The humanoid factory
(03:18) First humanoid guest at the White House
(05:29) Controlling a robot with infinite movements
(10:46) The truth about robot failures
(13:00) Attacking a humanoid robot (testing responses)
(16:12) Building a general purpose robot
(23:05) The "Never Fall" protocol
(28:56) Is the home robot teleoperated?
(33:36) Leasing a 24/7 robot
(35:01) Can a humanoid build a real car?
(43:32) From flying robots to humanoids
(45:59) The hidden path to physical AGI
(56:21) Figure's secret design studio
(01:00:44) Figure 4: The biggest leap in robotics
(01:06:25) Training robots in spandex
(01:10:26) Westworld, TIME Magazine, & Deadmau5

[Fabio Bottacci 🇮🇹 @VINCI_Digital🇧 @fabot70]

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[Cory Levy @cory]

this is pretty cool

some MIT students turned a building into a giant playable game of Tetris on Saturday at midnight

rigged each window with LEDs

MIT students are on a diff level

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is the beginning of something really big

[ABC News @ABC]

Video of a humanoid robot chasing wild boars out of a Warsaw neighborhood and into the woods — and then waving goodbye — has gone viral in Poland. https://t.co/L2uJ9nwVOO

[Mustafa @oprydai]

if you think building a humanoid is easy, think again.