Future Present Labs

Bringing the future to the present.

[Future Present Labs @futurepresentai]

Define your tools as a bounded catalog of actions/decisions rather than a JSON schema with parameters.

Point @typesafeai's Jev at it, and you're off to the races.

We're using it for CAD/CAM and even mixing/mastering in a DAW.

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Meet DCP: https://t.co/9IrqbCCWBH

A standard for #MCP-like access to tools for RLCD agents/models.

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Blog post coming soon...

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OODA: Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act.

That's all you need to build RLCD harnesses. Plus you can copy our homework. Strongly-typed over @typesafeai

We have this powering EDA/PCB design and CAD / CAM workflows internally.

https://t.co/kkjOzzRONc

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I think we'll see 5x the number of people become hardware and robotics founders over the next 18 months

Why? Because you can rent every step, from design to manufacturing:

DESIGN

- Astra to drive Blender, FreeCAD, and KiCad the way a person would, so you get editable geometry instead of a dead render. Zoo dot dev's text to CAD API if you want it programmatic.

- Or have Claude write build123d code, which is Python parametric CAD, and there's a Claude Code plugin that runs it and exports the STL for you.

PROTOTYPE

- Bambu A1 mini is $299, P1S around $399 on sale. Or skip owning one, JLC3DP prints and mails it for about $20. PCBWay does resin, SLS, and CNC if plastic won't cut it.

ELECTRONICS

- KiCad for the board, Astra can drive it. JLCPCB fabricates and assembles, often under $100 for a small run. ESP32 for wifi, Raspberry Pi if it needs a brain.

ANYTHING THAT MOVES

- Unitree sells a Go2 with a full SDK for about $2,500.

- Hugging Face put out a $399 open-source biped.

- LeRobot gives you the whole train in sim, deploy to real pipeline, and Physical Intelligence open-sourced π0 so you're fine-tuning instead of starting from zero.

- Prototype the policy in MuJoCo or Isaac Lab first.

MANUFACTURING

- Alibaba RFQ for the first 100 units. Check 1688 to see what the factory actually charges domestically, then negotiate. Pietra or Sourcify if you want someone to handle it.

FULFILLMENT AND SELLING

- ShipBob or Amazon FBA. Shopify for the store, TikTok Shop for distribution, Kickstarter if you want the money before you build it.

How to think about starting your own robotics or hardware company:

1. Pick a niche that's already buying weird gear. Cyclists, tabletop gamers, beekeepers, home baristas, dog people with mobility issues. These groups spend money on specific objects and complain in public about what doesn't exist. Or grab ideas off https://t.co/QxoITW16zr

2. Go read the complaints. Reddit, IG etc Search "I wish someone made," "does anyone make," and "modified my." That last one is the best signal, because someone already hacked the product together and you're just manufacturing what they built by hand.

Also check Etsy!! If 3 sellers are doing a janky 3D printed version with 400 reviews each, the market is validated.

3. Make one. Describe it to Astra or Claude, get the CAD, print it in ugly gray PLA, use it, fix it.

4. Only go to Alibaba or similar once you've sold a few. Message 10 suppliers through RFQ, take the third cheapest, always pay the $50 for a sample before the real order.

5. Film everything from day 1. The first ugly print, the failed version, the box of 100 arriving. That's your entire marketing budget, and hardware is one of the few categories where people actually want to watch the thing get made.

6. Raise the price. Almost everyone here anchors on what the plastic cost. Your customer is comparing you to nothing, because the alternative is the product doesn't exist. Start at 5x COGS and go up.

THIS GOAL OF THIS POST IS JUST HERE TO GET YOUR CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING. Of course, you can build robotics/hardware in a bunch of different ways.

One thing I've learned is data couldn't be more important when you're building a hardware/robotics startups.

These models learn from first person video of a human doing the task, and that footage doesn't exist for almost any job.

So basically you pick one repetitive job people quit over, film someone doing it for 2 weeks, fine-tune π0 on that footage, use organic to sell the first few units and figure out scaling,

5 years ago you needed a factory, a supply chain, and a $1M just to find out if anyone wanted the thing.

Now, anyone can become a hardware/robitics founder.

And I suspect a lot of people will become one!

Vibe manufacturers.

[Future Present Labs @futurepresentai]

Holy shit.

[🇺🇦 сloned @c10ned]

Dropped direct LPLC2/LC4 readouts, expanded simulation with downstream neurons and additional LC-family neurons. Remade readout net.
The drone is steered exclusively with descending motor neurons which natively fire in response to visual flow injected into fly's optical train.

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@eliakuratli 36.

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@aslambeg84 Async Rust. Embed mlua for a fast runtime if you need the dynamism.

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This is how we've been shipping electronics hardware for various customers. Modular synthesis to MeshCore nodes.

[Nils @nilslang]

With Astra, hardware is finally fun.

Give it a credit card + PRD in /goal:

- orders hardware
- uses 3d printer for parts
- benchmarks STT and TTS model on Raspberry Pi
- builds full software stack in simulated environment before parts arrive

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@Alex1here poolside/laguna-S-2.1
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
qwen/3.8-flash

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@0xPrajwal_ AI can do inference engineering. Or distributed systems and IoT.

Bespoke UIs are a thing of the past.

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@RohithThakurwar @nikolay_dp This is the future.

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@axhiii88547 Rust + Lua.

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Sharing some lessons from training our TTS voice for our upcoming always-on 24/7 AI SDM.

https://t.co/j6x28Kd9NV

[Future Present Labs @futurepresentai]

@SobattMc9f We’re launching our AI native cloud, plus a fully automated SWE team later this month.

Once you set the goals for the quarter, you kick back.

We have built state of the art research tools and systems architecture design models.

Been dogfooding for about 18 months.

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Hello, World!