Eamon F

Solution advisory & GTM strategy for enterprise apps & AI across Asia-Pac @SAP. Mechatronics engineer. Views my own.

[Eamon F @eamonf]

Downtown Missoula, MT - great day with the family

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Run your robot in simulation! 🖲️

📌 If you’re self-learning robotics, this is genuinely one to save for later.

This is next chapter of @NVIDIARobotics course "Getting Started with Isaac Sim" covering everything from building your first robot to hardware-in-the-loop deployment.

Today you will learn how to import, configure and... FINALLY simulate your cute robot.

Quick look what's inside:

→ Analyze URDF Structures: Examine URDF file structure and components to identify key elements like joints and links. This forms the basis for importing and configuring robots in Isaac Sim.

→ Apply the URDF Importer: Use Isaac Sim's URDF Importer to successfully import and simulate robot models. Set appropriate import options to ensure accurate representation and functionality.

→ Design Control Systems: Create control systems using differential controllers and keyboard control interfaces, enabling dynamic movement and interaction in the simulated environment.

→ Evaluate Physics Behavior: Assess simulated robot physics to identify and resolve issues like excessive velocity or incorrect joint configurations, ensuring realistic interactions.

→ Create Simulated Environments: Develop complete environments in Isaac Sim with robot models, appropriate physics and control settings, obstacles, and sensor configurations.

The module builds on previous foundations, preparing you for more advanced simulations and applications in the next module.

This is NVIDIA's structured approach to lowering the Isaac Sim learning curve. Most robotics teams have existing URDF files from their robot designs. Being able to import those directly into simulation without manual rebuilding accelerates iteration significantly.

See you next week!

Send this to your friend that wants to learn robotics! 💚

Here's the course (it's free): https://t.co/TCfjCCjNcO

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[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

The world's smallest industrial robot arm
Built for sub-micrometer precision.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how to control what is likely the world’s smallest and most precise industrial robot arm using custom software.

The stack includes online and offline programming with simulation, an analytical kinematics solver, a singularity-aware trajectory planner, and an API layer for integration with external systems.

It’s designed for applications where positioning error is measured in micrometers, not millimeters. Microelectronics, semiconductor handling, photonics alignment, medical device assembly, lab automation.

When parts are tiny and tolerances are unforgiving, the control architecture matters as much as the mechanics.

This is from Oleksander Stepanenko (@olekstepanenko), if you don’t follow him and his YouTube channel… no one can help you.

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Weekly robotics and AI insights.
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[Eamon F @eamonf]

@sikorskymark @toddsaunders Or just take key screenshots from the vid for design purposes

[Eamon F @eamonf]

An excellent primer on common issues & considerations when working with agents

[vas @vasuman]

https://t.co/XOfUSldujg

[Eamon F @eamonf]

@saulkavonic It’s all a patchwork now across Fed & States. Needs to be looked at overall along with fuel excise, road user charges, LCT etc. Policy and tech need to align - you have RAV4 hybrids doing 1,100km on a single tank now - lower emissions / km sure, tiny excise / km too

[Eamon F @eamonf]

@quantian1 Have played around and built some simple iOS apps using Claude lately - absurdly capable in the direct code cutting, as well as re-architecting existing elements basically on the fly when adding new features

[Eamon F @eamonf]

@DeveloperHarris https://t.co/Qekn6AdXzH

[Lockheed Martin @LockheedMartin]

On November 10, 1988, this grainy photo revealed a Skunk Works® secret. The F-117A Stealth fighter, later dubbed Nighthawk, had been secretly flying since 1981 and operational since 1983. It was the first combat aircraft to fully harness radar-evading stealth technology.

[sophie @netcapgirl]

absolute peak performance, bryan johnson in shambles

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

- culture that celebrates risk-taking
- ingrained hatred of bureaucracy
- robust capital markets
- Starbucks nitro cold brew
- cheap and abundant oil
- “you can just do stuff”
- investment bankers that work until 2 AM
- low barriers to entry for entrepreneurship
- cheap and abundant Zyn
- manifest destiny
- private equity
- Delaware C corporations
- freedom of speech
- air conditioning
- M&A markets
- interstate highway system
- meritocracy
- low capital gains taxes + QSBS exemption
- McDonalds
- incentives for getting shit done
- university Greek life system
- the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution
- New York City
- grocery stores that literally made Soviet politicians cry
- at-will employment
- Walmart
- everyone in the world speaks our language
- Mississippi River barge traffic
- GPU clusters
- ability to get filthy rich even if born poor
- pickup trucks
- state-school engineering programs
- SBA 7a loans
- Sand Hill Road
- Michael Jordan
- 50 states competing for business
- significantly more sunlight than Europe
- the Homestead Act of 1862
- old-school DARPA
- no union reps on corporate boards
- risk of dying poor even if born rich
- we don’t take the month of August off
- the entire state of Texas
- the smartest people in the world move here
- did I mention we despise bureaucracy?

[Gonzalo Fuentes @SrFuentes28]

This will be MacOS in Europe in two years

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

tech tree unlocked

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Elon has shown us this week what the future looks like. Robovan and robotaxis, humanoid robotics, green parks instead of parking lots, tunnels, rockets that are fully reusable and chopstick shenanigans. All of it sci-fi, but greater, and here, and incredible.

[Eamon F @eamonf]

@yacineMTB Pakistan has imported 13GW equiv of largely Chinese panels this year alone https://t.co/REQrrjhZzd

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We are emerging from a long period of collective forced demoralization, blinking in the sunlight of profound and ambitious achievement. 👀☀️

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

Straight into my veins

[Eamon F @eamonf]

@levelsio Probably gets sent to an office in Brussels to be approved first

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Elon is a key driving force in our civilizational ascension up the Kardashev scale.

There is simply no denying it.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Someone selling train tickets?

Nope.

This is just a video screen.

The actual video and audio is produced in real-time by AI.