Afik Cohen

🤖 cto @houmanoids • 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕕𝕛 • ᴍᴇᴛᴀᴘʜʏsɪᴄɪᴀɴ
🌉 SF, CA

@[email protected]

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

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[Afik Cohen @aphex]

@ruthwikdasyam @dimensionalos I hope jeff is getting affiliate revenue for this excellent reference use of the electric unicycle

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@emily_yu @IlirAliu_ 👋👋 hi, that's us. we're deploying hundreds of quadrupeds this year in unsexy places

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@JasonrShuman @taylorhou @houmanoids central LA. I'm based in sf if you want a demo of our stack

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

@lesh_bla oh lmao so this is with pure camera odom, amazing

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

extremely good takes, also the last bullet point is exactly what we're doing, hi;)

[arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai]

robotics is inherently about hardware, however I'm meeting more and more founders who want to find a software (or just non-hardware) business to build for robotics. thoughts:

> software is behind hardware (so this realization is correct, but not unique), and "robot brain" is indeed a hard problem to solve (further out than most think). that being said, I don't think solving robot intelligence as a company that is neither 1) collecting data (either by robot deployment, or other means) nor 2) a true research company like PI makes a lot of sense
> Selling dev tools to robotics companies is a horrible business idea right now (sounds smart, but not enough robot deployments + nowhere near the #1 pain point)
> the most obvious non-hardware opportunity is in the deployment gap. specifically, imo the demand for businesses in manual labor that want to try robotic solutions *today* I believe is much greater than most people realize, however no robot (humanoid to service bot) is ready to work out of the box (i.e. someone needs to come set them up, teleop, maintain etc). if I were thinking about a business, I would think about doing something that helps old-school, regular-ass businesses put robots into their space

tl;dr build stuff that actively puts more robots into the world

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

shhh don't reveal the huge alpha about building in robotics rn

[Chris Paxton @chris_j_paxton]

Again robotics software sucks. Its so bad. Part of what makes it so bad -- and what makes stuft like ROS useful -- is the amount of boring middleware code you need to write between sensors, processes, etc. Coding models make it so much easier to work with, its wonderful.

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

@sama Novel molecular therapies to stimulate progenitor cells that regenerate cochlear hair cells, thus curing hearing loss for billions of people; like the @frequencytx FX-322 trials; this would win a nobel

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

get you a co-founder who can do hip replacements in the field for a customer 🦿

[Taylor Hou @taylorhou]

Founders wear many hats. I added robot actuator technician to my list of skills ✅

[Taylor Hou @taylorhou]

Prepping the robot dogs for our second deployment this week #security #patrol @houmanoids 📷@soundjar

[Taylor Hou @taylorhou]

First residential deployment of quadruped robot for security and patrol!

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

within the first 60 seconds two guys bought the quadruped a beer and balanced it in on top of her and I haven't finished waterproofing the 5G router yet so ngl I was a bit concerned about whether the public is ready for robots in daily life

[0xSero @0xSero]

Few hours in SF POV

[Cormac @cormachayden_]

software engineers before vs after agents

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

just noticed these awesome pics from the @AGIHouseSF hardware night a few months back. met so many great robotics+hardware folks, when's the next one?

[AGI House SF @AGIHouseSF]

6 high-caliber events in 6 nights.

Last night: The Consumer Hardware Night featuring robodogs, exoskeletons to prevent knee injury by @Hipposexo, synthesizers, and presentation of the Future Factory.

Hosted by @Aililiuu, @jerryhuang01, @ShawKylin, @JvNixon and @JuliusYRitter.

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

github enterprise trial in one act: 50 seats auto-provisioned at $21/each, payment fails on $0 of real usage, CI dies mid-PR, every agent on my team frozen waiting for green checks. then a sales rep emails: "ready to move forward with the solution?" 🙃

[roon @tszzl]

people are walking around with their laptops slightly ajar to keep their agents running

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

@JakeHulberg @infisical @doppler Claude Code needs to be able to run my local dev server with infisical run. infisical CLI frequently invalidates its session (seems like once a month) and requires manual re-login. this brings my agents to a screeching halt

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

@infisical if you do not make your cli non-interactive (as in, letting me run `infisical login` from within claude code) within the next few weeks, I am canceling and moving our team to @doppler

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

@JakeHulberg @infisical @doppler Machine identities aren't working. I still get this, even with INFISICAL_UNIVERSAL_AUTH_CLIENT_ID and SECRET set in my .zshrc:
> infisical run -- pnpm run dev
No valid login session found, triggering login flow

[Afik Cohen @aphex]

@0xSero this is a less rigorous version of @obrajesse's Superpowers