J Kaneshiro

taking over the world with cats and robots

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

this fucking music is perfect. wtf...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’.

It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion.

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@OddStats please, do keep up the weird work 😆

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@TradingWarz LEAPS

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@shelbystardust literally everything is beautiful in this pic, but i ESPECIALLY love the kodama : ) adorbs, always loved them

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@rathor7_ excuse me, that is *Bashley 😆

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

badASS.

[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.

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

damn. good argument.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico’s message to Gen Z: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

Your boss cares about politics. Your landlord cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics.

And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@TradingWarz ME pleaze!

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@DoctorLemma 🚨 UPDATE, he made friends finally ; )
https://t.co/QHv1LdPdMx

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

👀🤣

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Lolol Robin Williams trying to do a Scene with Elmo. 🤣😂 what could go wrong?

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@Inhumansoflate1 don't forget tip culture. nobody comes to a restaurant? waiters and waitresses can't pay their rent.

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

spot fucking on.

[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@TrendSpider promising, looks like also a possible bull div forming in daily

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Chris Cuomo asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez how we pay for Medicare for All, tuition free college, and the green new deal. It gives people sticker shock. Her answer:
“People talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for All, but they do not talk about the sticker shock of our existing system. In a Koch brothers funded study, it shows that Medicare for All is actually much cheaper than the current system.
Let's not forget that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act because they ruled that each of these monthly payments that everyday Americans make is a tax. We pay it every single month. (Or we pay at tax season if we don't buy plans off of the exchange.)
Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is. Why aren't we incorporating the cost of funeral expenses of those who die because they can't afford access to healthcare? That is part of the cost of our system. Or the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability or are not able to participate in our economy because they don't have access to the healthcare that they need?
At the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipe dream. Every other developed nation in the world has this. Why can't America? And that is the question we need to ask.
We write blank checks for war. We just wrote a $2 trillion check for the GOP tax cut. And nobody asks how are we going to pay for it.
So my question is why are our pockets only empty when it comes to education and healthcare for our kids? Why are our pockets only empty when we talk about 100% renewable energy that is going to save this planet and allow our children to thrive?
We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do. But when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires or unlimited war, we seem to be able to invent that money very easily. To me it belies a lack of moral priorities that people have right now, especially the Republican Party.”

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

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[J Kaneshiro @catsVSrobots]

@LEAPTRADER_ $HIMS, $SOXL for me