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Humans make the plans, AI makes them faster. Thoughts on tech and what's next

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

A humanoid robot now costs less than a flagship phone. 🤖📱
Meet Bumi from Beijing startup Noetix: ¥9,998 (about $1,400), the first high-performance humanoid robot in China priced below ¥10,000.
What you get:
• 94 cm tall, 12 kg
• Walks, runs and dances
• Drag-and-drop programming for kids and voice interaction
• 1-2 hours of battery life
It's not built for heavy labor. It's a social companion and learning robot for homes and classrooms.
For scale: traditional humanoids cost 30-100x more.
A few years ago humanoids were lab projects. Now they're priced like gadgets.
Would you buy one? And what would you use it for? 👇
#Robotics #AI

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

@VinceLoveLife Agreed! And the wildest part is it's not a demo video, it's a real factory with real parts. 🤖 Where do you think humanoids will show up next?

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Audi just taught humanoid robots a job nobody could automate. 🤖🚘
At its Ingolstadt plant, Audi is testing mobile humanoid robots from Agile Robots, together with NVIDIA and Dassault Systèmes.
The robots take parts out of bins and place them into sequencing carts in the right order for final assembly. Thousands of different parts, constant changes. This is exactly the work classic industrial robots fail at.
Before the first robot touched the factory floor, the whole process was tested in a virtual twin of Audi’s logistics environment.
It sounds small, but the scale is a million logistics operations per day.
For now it’s a proof of concept, not full production. But this is how it starts.
Would you trust a humanoid robot on the line that builds your car? Or is this the beginning of the end for factory jobs? 👇
#audi #ai #nvidia

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Galbot's robot at China Open tracks it, moves and swings. Impressive. But would it work on a court without all this camera gear?
#robotics #engineering

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

A robot that moves like a creature extinct for hundreds of millions of years 🦎
Watch it closely:
🧊 slides across ice
🌊 swims underwater
🪨 crawls along the seabed
Japanese engineers didn’t invent a new way to move. They looked at how ancient animals did it and copied it.
Evolution had a head start of 500 million years. Maybe it’s time we started listening. 🧬
Future of rescue operations, or just creepy? 👇
🎥 Video: @ctorobotics
#Robotics #Biomimicry #Engineering

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

@ozansihay Love the honest "thought it was exaggerated" take, that's the most convincing kind of review. 👏 How does it handle fast movement or tricky lighting? That's usually where this kind of tech breaks

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Both scoreboards are real, they just measure different bets. Unitree is selling hardware today. Tesla and Figure are valued on whoever owns the "brain" once robots do actual work. The risk: the first scoreboard is mostly research labs and showrooms, and the second is mostly a promise.

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

@zeroxX_o Great breakdown! I'd still pick a human bartender for the conversation, but a robot for the 3 a.m. shift? Sold.

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

He went in for a handshake. The robot went in for a hair check. Neither of them was ready for this level of drama
#unitree #robot #robotics #humanoidrobot #funnyrobot

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Thirty seconds? I'd last exactly as long as it takes the robot to finish its warm-up. 😅 But the scarier part isn't the kicks, it's the learning curve: five years ago this was a stumble, now it's choreography. The real test is whether that balance holds up when the floor isn't perfect and nobody is controlling it.

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

At a robotics expo, a humanoid robot decided to teach a tiny drone-bot some manners. One quick roundhouse kick, and the little guy was officially in orbit. 🚀
The crowd laughed, the engineers pretended it was "part of the test," and somewhere a safety manager quietly updated the incident report.
Moral of the story: never stand in front of a robot that just finished its leg day. 🦵🤖

#robotics #humanoidrobot #robot #tech #funny #robotfail #technology #AI

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

@kimmonismus Couldn't agree more. The best part is that the tools keep getting better, but the real magic is people like this finding uses nobody planned for. Creativity was never the bottleneck, access to it was.

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

@zeroxX_o Exactly. And conversion won't come from the best demo, it'll come from the first robot that clocks in for a full shift without a human nearby. Whoever gets there first wins the funnel. 🤖

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Balance is the part people underestimate. Walking on a flat lab floor is a solved demo, but adapting posture on the fly when the ground, load or obstacles change is what separates a showpiece from a robot you can actually deploy. Curious to see how AGILE performs once it leaves the controlled environment.

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Not obsolete, but transformed. Tanks won't vanish, they'll just need an escort: counter-drone systems, electronic warfare, and their own swarms. The real winner won't be the biggest machine, it'll be whoever has the best network and the fastest decision loop. Also, a swarm still needs batteries, comms and a supply line, and those are the first things an adversary will target.

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Bend a finger. The robot bends the same one.
Now put that hand in another country. Same fingers, zero travel.
Surgery. Bomb disposal. Disaster zones.
Where would you use it first?
#robotics #Ai

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

Imagine this: the start of a semester, a robotics club, a whiteboard full of sketches, and one wild idea: «What if we build a spider?» 🕷️
Four months later, it walks on six legs.
Students from Inha University’s Robot Research Club @ctorobotics built it from scratch: mechanics, electronics, locomotion, all of it.
Now imagine what they could build with one more year. 🤖
#robotics #engineering

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

@sshttai Poor guy never got to tap out. 😅 Still, a robot failing its max lift on live display is more useful than a polished demo. Hope the engineers get good data from this one

[kowalski @abc_kowalski]

@0xForem This doesn't add up. iOS apps are sandboxed, and "Files and Folders" access only covers folders you explicitly grant, not system caches like PhotoData. Residual thumbnails in a local backup is a real thing, but "any app can read your deleted photos" isn't. Where's the proof?