Chris Thomas

Building open-source humanoid robots and making sure they're accessible, auditable, and beneficial to humanity.

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@pham_blnh @victoroldensand yessir he's going to be hitting backflips

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

they grow up so fast @victoroldensand

his name is Walnut. soon he’ll be running these streets

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@AnselDias @victoroldensand Yes potentially! First turning it into a dev kit

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@Booleans_Things @victoroldensand @10_X_eng Pretty much, and because of ram prices the Pi 02W is inflated

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@Booleans_Things @10_X_eng @victoroldensand Yes its got tiny tpu toes

[Martino Russi @NepYope]

super smooth rl policy and super cute robot by @chrisvtom and @victoroldensand

[Victor Oldensand @victoroldensand]

Spent saturday and early sunday at a hackathon again and got to test out the Seeed Rebot arms

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@chris_j_paxton I was considering building a simple mobile base + lifting column(like the Sunday robot) for like 3-4k USD, but allow any manipulator like the Rebot or the Openarms. Could be cool since we have so many robot arms in the market now

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@victoroldensand @inventorOli Good timing haha

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

its a work of art

[Martino Russi @NepYope]

Homunculus F³ (Full Force Feedback) haptic glove coming soon 😁

[Victor Oldensand @victoroldensand]

Exciting to see @rabault_nicolas expanding on our work from the LeRobot hackathon last year

[Felix Muller @felix_myu]

Computer-use agents fail silently on most of the web.

The page never loads — Cloudflare, Akamai, captcha — but the agent keeps clicking like it did.

I built guestlist to know upfront. ~100k sites probed with a real Chrome fingerprint. green = your CUA gets in. red = it doesn't.

[THE LINE @thelinestudio]

Now feels more important than ever to imagine a brighter future.

Five years ago, we released ‘Dear Alice’. An encapsulation of a Solarpunk future for Chobani.

Even all these years later, we still get tagged in repurposed content for this by the Solarpunk community!

Unlike Cyberpunk or Steampunk, Solarpunk envisions a future that you'd actually probably quite like to live in! It's not intended to be just an aesthetic, but a political movement towards a brighter and greener future.

Our short depicts humans, animals and nature all living and working harmoniously with non-invasive technology. It's a world where technology is used to enhance tried-and-true farming practices rather than to replace them with something that degrades nature. Solarpunk doesn't mean everyone has to live on a farm. Civilisations can still exist, and if you look closely, the buildings in the city incorporate greenery to bring nature to brick-and-mortar.

The central focus is on a woman narrating a letter written by a grandmother to her granddaughter about how she wants to leave behind a more sustainable future for her. It’s a nostalgic look towards a new era of agriculture, with beautifully crafted backgrounds, delicate animation and a completely unique score by long-time Ghibli composer (and absolute legend) Joe Hisaishi.

Director: Bjorn-Erik Aschim
Producer: Samia Ahmed
Executive Producer: James Duveen
Production Manager: Macarena Gaset
Head of Production: Hanae Seida
Art Director: Antoine Perez
Editor: Max Taylor
Storyboard: Maxime Jouniot, Louis Kynd
*full credits on website

#solarpunk #chobani #THELINE #DearAlice

[Victor Oldensand @victoroldensand]

One month ago today, I presented my factory to 250 investors at Fr8

Many have asked for more details on what @theo_michel42 and I actually did, so here it is.

I don't pay for twitter, so the rest of the post will be in the comments 😁

[Genesis AI @gs_ai_]

We are back again :) After three weeks of quiet building.

Introducing Genesis World 1.0, our latest simulation platform, the second release in our full-stack suite. Open-sourced.

Robotics is still bottlenecked by the 1× speed of the physical world. Every model, checkpoint, and data recipe eventually needs to be tested on physical hardware, slowly, expensively, and with limited coverage.

One hour in reality can become 100 days in simulation. That is how robotics model iteration moves from a wall-clock bottleneck to a compute problem.

To make this work, simulation has to be both fast and trustworthy.

Over the past year, we rebuilt the entire stack: a GPU-accelerated cross-platform compiler, penetration-free multi-physics contact solvers, unified rigid and deformable physics, and a photo-realistic renderer purpose-built for physical AI applications.

We built Nyx, a high-performance path-traced rendering engine for robotics application.

Genesis World 1.0 achieves near realtime performance with our latest development for penetration-free IPC solver, supporting various types of deformables beyond rigid bodies. It supports contact-rich, dexterous manipulation simulation across different embodiments: unitree, sharpa, wuji, genesis hand and various types of grippers.

Under the hood is Quadrants, our effort in pushing forward cross-platform GPU-accelerated computation. Quadrants started as a fork of Taichi, and we rebuilt most of the critical parts for optimizing simulation workloads, giving 10x faster launch time and up to 4.6x runtime performance compared to the initial Genesis release.

Together, they bring us to an unprecedentedly low sim-to-real gap, enabling zero-shot real-to-sim model evaluation and much faster iteration of GENE.

All available today.
Genesis World 1.0: https://t.co/aknCM3eqws
Quadrants: https://t.co/uXqPNI4cb6
Nyx: https://t.co/R8j0djqGnV

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

building with @victoroldensand

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

its walnut

[Victor Oldensand @victoroldensand]

New iphone speakers cost less than 2 dollars, are tiny, and can be hidden inside smaller robots. Plus they're designed for crisp audio, so why even use the crappy round mini speakers?

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@sysang3l @victoroldensand @Dorian_Todd_ @LeRobotHF 3D printed chassis, and the rest from amazon!

[Chris Thomas @chrisvtom]

@victoroldensand @Dorian_Todd_ @LeRobotHF He is adorable🤖 we are making an army