Giskard

serial deep tech founder. exits across med tech and robotics. strongly believe embodied ai breakthroughs will come from non-transformer, bio inspired approaches

[Giskard @giskard2]

@pmarca Sure your agent can do the task - but can it play office politics?

[Giskard @giskard2]

Would be amazing to build robots like this

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Owls are incredibly sensitive to touch. Their feathers are connected to tiny nerves that help them feel even the slightest movement 🦉🧠

[Giskard @giskard2]

Very bladerunner vibes shaping up here

[compuficial @compuficial]

China is crazy. You could quit big tech, move into a dilapidated leaky Chengdu rooftop shack, train AI models as a freelancer, and still end up doing food delivery at night just to make rent.

[Agility @agilityrobotics]

Our cofounder and Chief Robot Officer Jonathan Hurst in @arstechnica: robotics won't have a "ChatGPT moment" — autonomy is earned in the real world. It's why Digit's 65,000+ hours of live deployment matter more than any demo.
Where robot autonomy actually stands today: https://t.co/ns3WjQmuwB

#FutureOfWork

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability.

For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.

[Aran Nayebi @aran_nayebi]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this really just showing:

*In a trained autoregressive network, there is a subspace of internal activations that is especially aligned with future verbal output and downstream computation.*

Isn't this expected given how LLMs are trained? In fact, I suspect you could find this is many other task-optimized architectures, not just Transformers/Claude—it would be good to try this on RNNs, MLPs, CNNs, etc.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

BS- The U.S. is one of the rare countries --if not the only country --where aggressive & risk taking immigrants can make it big, get rich, & become part of the system without giving up on their identity.

[Giskard @giskard2]

An old one but good one!

[Irvin (in Japan 🇯🇵) @irvinxyz]

BREAKING:
A new California-based robotic startup comes out of stealth and announces new laundry folding robot called PR2. Rumors have it that it’s fully ROS2 enabled.

Here’s a demo of it autonomously folding unseen clothing.

[Ronald van Loon @Ronald_vanLoon]

Meet Roadrunner: A Bipedal Wheeled #Robot That Seamlessly Switches Between Driving and Walking Modes
by @spaceandtech_

#Robotics #Engineering #EmergingTech #Technology

[Techniahqrobot | humanoid robots @techniahqrobot]

This is Festo BionicKangaroo.

A robotic kangaroo built by Festo’s Bionic Learning Network to study one idea from nature: how a kangaroo stores energy when it lands and reuses it in the next jump.

How it works:

• An elastic rubber tendon acts like an artificial Achilles tendon
• Pneumatic cylinders trigger the jump
• Electric motors control the hips and tail
• The tail balances the body during flight
• On landing, the tendon absorbs kinetic energy
• That stored energy is reused for the next jump

The robot weighs about 7 kg, stands around 1 meter upright and can jump up to 40 cm high and 80 cm forward.

It was not built as a consumer robot. It was built to test energy recovery, lightweight mechanics, mobile pneumatics and the smart combination of pneumatic and electric drives.

Nature already solved efficient jumping. Festo turned that biology into hardware.

Official source: Festo’s BionicKangaroo page and brochure.

[Irvin (in Japan 🇯🇵) @irvinxyz]

2026 SF:
“What if, we add 2 arms with 8 DoF and call it physical AI”

[Gabriele Berton @gabriberton]

4 personal thoughts about AI

1) AI/DL/LLMs have nothing in common with the brain. Deep Learning is based on backprop, the brain isn't

2) Anything with backprop is a dead end for understanding the brain. Don't let "brain-inspired" works like JEPA / HRM fool you [1/2]

[Giskard @giskard2]

Kinda interesting that the biggest breakthrough of this decade needed philanthropic or single source funding.

The VCs just piled on like sheep later …

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

In 5 years, 99% of today’s research in AI will not matter.

The other 1% might never be published.

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

“Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.”

— Erwin Schrödinger

[Giskard @giskard2]

That one friend who’s had too much to drink …

[Ronald van Loon @Ronald_vanLoon]

Dual-Arm #Robot Achieves Precision Pouring Under External Disturbance
via @ZappyZappy7

#Robotics #Technology #RPA #Innovation #Automation

[Ronald van Loon @Ronald_vanLoon]

#Robots Inspired by Sea Creatures: Biomimetic Machines Shaping the Future of #Robotics
via @ZappyZappy7

#MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #ML

[Giskard @giskard2]

Solar powered data centers in Antarctica as a global planetary brain - instead of sovereign AI what if all the smaller countries pooled their resources and built this?

[Jim Drumheller @JimDrumheller]

😹

[Giskard @giskard2]

@neerajKh_ Does that erode as we get more automation?