Jack Morrison

Robot Revolution Instigator, CEO & Cofounder @AgencyToolCo

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@tophtucker Congrats Toph and Claire!

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@zipline Congrats! Y'all have set the bar for reliable robotics development. Super impressive

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

Congrats to the team that has set the bar for reliable robotics over the last 10+ years. Super impressive.

[Zipline @zipline]

Zipline just raised $1.5 billion in new funding. This money will go towards building a nationwide drone delivery network.

There’s a better, greener future on the horizon and we’re just starting to realize it.

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@JasonrShuman @nomadicnerd @PathRobotics @simberobotics +1 to those guys! @mhorowit's also seen a lot building @AMPSortation and done hardcore edge AI for years. And @meloneewise has been shipping robots since Willow Garage.

[Point One Navigation @pointonenav]

FUSE is November 19 in San Francisco - in 15 days! 🧭
🔗 https://t.co/nMlUSwJnKc

People get confused when we say FUSE is not a product conference. What company holds a conference and doesn’t make the audience sit through at least one thinly veiled product pitch?

Point One has a complete product stack for precise location. But that’s not what FUSE is about.

Our team builds robots, and we have a front-row seat as customers take complex machines from prototype to fleets working in the real world.

Location is almost always a big part of that story, and it’s never solved by one technology. GNSS, inertial, cameras, LiDAR, maps, all of it working together.

Fusing them is what’s hard, and it’s why we named the conference FUSE.There hasn’t been a place where the people doing this work could get in a room and say “here’s how we actually made it work.” Until now.

The lineup: @SchimpfBrian (Anduril), @jackmorrison (Agency Tool Company), Eyal Cohen (@humblerobotics), @adrianmacneil (Foxglove), Ali Agha (@fieldai_), Amy Rose (@OvertureMaps), @KanuGulati (Khosla Ventures), @moran_amit (Civ Robotics), @LearnOpenCV, @SteveMacenski (Open Navigation), @adamgrosser (https://t.co/ZCnjhPyRx5), Angus Pacala (@ousterlidar), @kscottz (Intrinsic), Jim Ostrowski (@BlueRiverTech) and Adam Rodnitzky (Bay Area Robotics Network)

Thank you to @svrobo, @sparkfun, @ST_World and SyncWise for partnering with us on this!

If you’re building localization for machines that have to work in the real world, you’re exactly who we had in mind.

FUSE San Francisco | Nov 19 | Foundry SF
https://t.co/nMlUSwJnKc

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

Election Day 🇺🇸 Repped my @FrameworkPuter @reindsummit sweater to vote 🗳️

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

If you're building in robotics, @ycombinator is a stellar network to kickstart your journey

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Robots Made in America
@sdianahu

Robot foundation models are starting to transfer skills from one machine to another, which means the bottleneck is shifting to hardware.

The U.S. still imports much of its robots and their critical components. We want to see founders rebuild that supply chain here, from magnets, motors, gears, and sensors to chips, batteries, and the machines that make them.

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

Robot folks: @rosorg Meetup in NYC next Thursday with @IntrinsicAI ! https://t.co/xbX0A0YMsm

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What a timeline we're on

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@seconds_0 @CVEnew

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@_joe_harris_ @burro_ai @Seegrid @LocusRobotics @GetGreenzie @bonsairobotics

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@JasonrShuman This is, to me, the big promise of general purpose intelligence: let bots autonomously and gracefully handle the weird long tail of stuff they encounter so you can get multiple 9’s of reliability

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@JasonrShuman Good points but the core bottleneck to growth of robot deployments is robust exception handling: when something unexpected happens, can it deal with it?

The $15/hr human in the job usually can easily but most robots have struggled with that and it erodes trust quickly.

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

Congrats @make_robot_go and @roboticscorp

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

New robot form just dropped LFG

[Ros Shinkle @make_robot_go]

Introducing Voxel, a droid butler made by Tuesday Labs.

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@arankomatsuzaki When you get going and need help deploying software/models/OS, stay in touch @AgencyToolCo

Good lucK!

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@fel1de @Walmart Depends on the application but yeah, that’s still hard as hell to pull off!

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

20+ years after Kiva started and iRobot IPO’d, it’s still SO early in robotics. Even @Walmart, who has tried every logistics and facility robot under the sun (seriously, talk to anyone in the space), is still hunting for solutions

https://t.co/E0MFvvW6BU

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@willsentance But a robot isn’t just a model — the “harness” is still a lot of work and where a lot of additional reliability challenges live

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@willsentance Lots of folks have been deploying robots of various shapes for a decade+ now and yet we’ve barely made a dent in the potential. Exciting times with what better models can unlock!

[Jack Morrison @jackmorrison]

@IanRountree @cantos We talked a lot at Scythe about dropping “robotics” from the name for similar reasons — the coolest thing was earning the trust where landscapers just trust it’ll do the thing and don’t even call it a robot, just “the mower”. That time is coming across the board soon