Scott C

Founder, UX/UI Designer, Artist, Sculptor, Runner, Sci-Fi & Tech Geek, Father, Christian.

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

If we can send a bipedal robot to Mars. Can we please have it go over and dust off the solar panels on a few of the robots we've got 'sleeping' on the planet? Maybe change a wheel out on that one that's borked? Heck find that helicopter and see if it can give it a refresh?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship will hopefully depart for Mars at the end of next year with Optimus explorer robots!

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

32% of U.S. adults say they are likely to seriously consider purchasing an electric vehicle next time they shop for a car. 🚗

Would you consider buying an EV? 💬

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

Me getting into the office at exactly 0700hrs ...

[Malachi Maxey @malachimaxeyusa]

He just used up the next 10 years of good luck right here

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

Hey, @Engineering + @X + @KettlebellDan : feature request

Much like how with videos when you swipe up it plays an algorithm mased selected video. 𝕏 should do that with images. Swipe shows the images in replies to the image posted. Then when those are exhausted pick a random related image

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

"There are a thousand things that can happen when you go to light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good."
— Tom Mueller

Glad everyone is safe...physically. Emotionally may be a different matter.

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

"There are a thousand things that can happen when you go to light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good."
— Tom Mueller

Glad everyone is safe...physically. Emotionally may be a different matter.

[Intel Point Alert @IntelPointAlert]

BREAKING: Blue Origin rocket exploded on launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

High-value relationships are mutual contracts that demand equal commitment fr both sides. When 1 party defaults, conduct objective value assessment: Is the return worth repairing? If yes, fight for resolution. No? Excute a clean exit & cut losses.
TLDR: Equal effort is required.

[Kinza @Kinza1278]

Can you do it?

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

My favorite part of any disaster movie is when all the characters still don't realize they're in a disaster movie.

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

My favorite part of any disaster movie is when all the characters still don't realize they're in a disaster movie.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

MIT just solved one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics (Save this).

For decades, the fundamental problem with soft robots and wearable exoskeletons has not been compute or AI, it has been actuation.

The moment you try to give a soft robot meaningful strength, you run into the same wall every engineer has hit since the field began, fluid-driven systems require external pumps, hydraulic reservoirs, and heavy infrastructure that makes the entire thing impractical to wear or embed into fabric.

MIT's new Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles solve that problem by eliminating external infrastructure entirely.

The key insight is electrohydrodynamic pumping using electric fields to generate pressure directly from electricity, with no moving parts, no motors, and no external fluid reservoir.

The fibers are less than 2 millimeters thick, can be woven into fabric like ordinary textile, and operate in complete silence because nothing physically moves inside them, it is just ions propelling fluid through a closed circuit.

The performance numbers published in Science Robotics are not conceptual, they are empirical results from actual hardware.

These fibers achieve a power density of 50 watts per kilogram, matching skeletal muscle, with a contraction strain of 20% and a response time of 0.3 seconds.

A single bundled configuration lifted 4 kilograms, 200 times its own weight while a separate configuration drove a robotic arm through a 40-degree bend compliant enough to safely complete a human handshake.

Another configuration launched objects in under 100 milliseconds, which is faster than a human flinch reflex.

The design mirrors biological muscle architecture in a way that prior artificial muscle approaches never achieved.

The fibers are organized into antagonistic pairs, one contracts while the other extends, exactly like biceps and triceps and because the system runs in a closed loop, the relaxing fiber serves as the fluid reservoir for the contracting one, which is what allows the whole system to operate untethered with no external tank.

The applications are not hypothetical but rather are the exact use cases the industry has been waiting years for the hardware to catch up to.

Exoskeletons for physical labor, prosthetic limbs that move with the natural compliance of biological tissue, assistive garments for patients with motor disorders, and soft robots capable of safe physical contact with humans are all immediately unlocked by a muscle technology that is silent, lightweight, and weavable into clothing.

The deeper significance is what this technology does when it meets the AI robotics wave that is already underway.

Every major humanoid robot program, Figure, 1X, Boston Dynamics, Tesla Optimus is currently bottlenecked by the same hardware limitations these fibers address, actuators that are too rigid, too loud, too heavy, or too dependent on infrastructure to operate naturally alongside humans.

Electrofluidic fiber muscles do not just solve a materials science problem but rather they remove one of the last physical barriers between robots that live in labs and robots that live in the world.

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

@DealsFinderIO There's also a tan one for the same price .

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

@MartinGTobias So the next question is, "What's the solution?"

[Matthew Gialich @MattGialich]

Thermal is such a pain in the ass. We have to assemble our base plate in a temperature-controlled room in order to meet the tolerance needed for the separation system.

The details on spacecraft are infinite.

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

@elonmusk Sounds like a good reason to build space based data centers

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

@elonmusk Sounds like a good reason to build space based data centers

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

@MartinGTobias "Fake it till you make it"

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

@grok @latestinspace Okay not that big, no threat even if it hits atmo.

[Scott C @_Scott_C]

Why does the Claude logo look like Uranus?

[Jeff @jeffinvenice]

new claude swag dropping soon