Jarrett Herold

Co-Founder @Sheeprobotics , Embodied AI to automate + consolidate the $1T outdoor services industry | Race Director @Tri2evolve | @LehighU

[yoni rechtman @yrechtman]

Platforms that can turn skilled labor into real owners (free from Uber-like indenture or PE-owned extraction) can unleash tons of new entrepreneurial energy.

I f you put together demand gen (brand, marketplace, marketing, etc.) + operating capacity (software, capital, etc.) + services and support (training, accounting, etc.) you reconstitute the franchise value prop.

Biz in a box for trades makes it possible for a technician to become an entrepreneur with little/no skills but the technical ones (“just turn the wrench”) and a desire to grow. For you troubles you’ll earn MUCH higher take rates - and much more stably - than any of SaaS, services, or marketplace on their own.

[Jarrett Herold @JarrettHerold]

https://t.co/V2EgDszp0l

[Foxglove @foxglove]

🚨 New speaker announcement: @Michaellaskey7, CTO, @sheeprobotics joins the Actuate 2024 speaker lineup! 👋 Welcome, Michael, we're incredibly excited to hear your talk on September 18, 2024.

Get your tickets today and meet Michael in person at Actuate! https://t.co/CF1KINXALb

[Jarrett Herold @JarrettHerold]

@HarryStebbings @MurtyNag from @sheeprobotics

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

I miss San Francisco.

I miss Crissy Field. The Marina Green.

I miss that walk along the water at sunset, with all that green to your left, the water to your right, and the sight of that huge surreal orange bridge up ahead.

The Italian sandwich spots in north beach. The insane views from Russian Hill.

Getting lost in the Presidio, or Golden Gate Park for hours at a time.

The parrots flying above Alta Plaza Park.

I miss the sand dunes at Ocean Beach.

All those little stores in the mission that sell the most random things that you can’t help but check out over and over again, even though you’re not really sure what they are.

I miss running into some of the best coffee spots in the world everywhere you turn.

The feeling that you’ve gone back in time as you wander through the Haight-Ashbury and walk by stores that somehow survive selling nothing but tie-dye clothes.

I miss hiking around Lands End, in disbelief that place exists on earth.

I miss the time-worn but perfect hole-in-the-wall Chinese food restaurant you can’t get enough of.

I miss walking into the Ferry Building on a Saturday morning and wanting to sample from every single one of those little shops, and then existing out to a picture perfect farmers market along the water.

I miss that stunning downtown view that rises you out of nowhere as you head up highway 280.

I miss the electric energy of a crowded Dolores Park on a sunny day, and guessing just what crazy thing that next vendor is going to walk by with.

I miss the occasional movie at the Castro Theater, and that hilarious vibe as you’re heading inside.

I miss walking up to one of the most beautiful ballparks ever built, and that smell of garlic that sharply greets you as you enter.

I miss the throwback steakhouse vibe of The House of Prime Rib.

Or occasionally putting on my tourist hat and heading down to Fisherman’s Wharf or over to Alcatraz; two places where you’re guaranteed to never run into anybody you know.

I miss zipping down Franklin St and timing it so the lights all turn green just as your car approaches the intersection.

I miss the authenticity of Chinatown.

I miss how the wind sounds as you ride the ferry across the bay to Sausalito. Talk about a bucket list experience.

I even miss hearing those loud kids that crowd The Tipsy Pig all day, screaming at the top of their lungs as that fifth drink starts to hit them.

I miss that it never gets too hot, and that picturesque layer of fog that settles just above the water, even when it hangs around for just a few weeks too long.

I miss the eclectic mix that makes up the people of San Francisco, and the passion they have for their city.

And most of all, I miss the enthusiasm and the optimism, even within a city that has always had its challenges.

The people who live there are there because they know there are better days ahead.

They know they live in a special place.

It’s been down before, but there are just too many great things about it to ever count it out.

San Francisco will be back.

And it will be better than ever.

It’s an American national treasure.

It’s a place we should all be rooting for.

[Electric Sheep @sheeprobotics]

Simpler robots -> Profitable Data flywheels -> Complex robots

After all the fun verdie robot videos - here's something more different ... the real world complexity of full-stack robotics ... as we deploy and scale.

https://t.co/Ql3ZSwFw5F

[Jarrett Herold @JarrettHerold]

This is so awesome lol @sheeprobotics

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Challenge accepted @natfriedman!

The quietest way to remove leaves from @sheeprobotics

[Herbert Ong @herbertong]

EXCLUSIVE: CEO Unveils AI Machines Beyond Tesla's Reach! | Electric Sheep Nag Murty

Can LLM-Style robots revolutionize the physical world?

@sheeprobotics

[Nag Murty @MurtyNag]

fun podcast with @herbertong we talked about profit making data engines and what robotics companies can learn from the Tesla business model.

[Nag Murty @MurtyNag]

The hard part about robotics and autonomy - humanoids, robodogs, AMRs, AVs isn't hardware. The hard part is to build a data engine to achieve agency that is on par with human reliability - and to do it profitably. This is what @elonmusk and @Tesla_AI and have built.

Step 1 is to bootstrap the engine with simple hardware so you can crank the engine to a certain level of momentum to build your world model.

Step 2 to N is more complex embodiments to learn embodiment specific policies.

[Electric Sheep @sheeprobotics]

Thanks to @therobotreport for recognizing us as Startup of the Year! 💪🏼

https://t.co/Y92pKhioNc

[Electric Sheep @sheeprobotics]

robot caretakers for our planet

[Nag Murty @MurtyNag]

Super stoked to see Electric Sheep @sheeprobotics mentioned in the #GTC2024 @nvidia GTC keynote today! Come visit our booth tomorrow and day after at GTC!

[Michael Laskey @Michaellaskey7]

Really inspiring to see @sheeprobotics get out a shout out from @nvidia

[Jarrett Herold @JarrettHerold]

Love sharing this coverage on @nbcbayarea with @Figure_robot! Humanoids aren’t the only embodiment that you can imagine doing useful work.. how about the already mechanized equipment that service our outdoor spaces?! @sheeprobotics 🙌🏼

[Nag Murty @MurtyNag]

Pumped to see some great coverage for little Verdie @sheeprobotics alongside the amazing @Figure_robot and @adcock_brett funding announcement in NBC Bay Area yesterday.

https://t.co/JUblEdpCgT

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

Interview with @MurtyNag for S³-33 with @sheeprobotics

7:13 Nag’s first company

10:22 AGI & Singularity

20:20 Physical-based AI

[Jarrett Herold @JarrettHerold]

@jasonjoyride helps us tell our story perfectly around what we’re doing with embedded AI models. @sheeprobotics is here to do useful work in the unstructured outdoors!

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

Surely there isn't a startup (1) acquiring landscaping businesses, (2) to build a data engine, (3) to train embedded AI models, (4) so they can develop novel robots...

Episode 33 of S³ features @sheeprobotics

[Electric Sheep @sheeprobotics]

Animal-like robots are the future.

Introducing Verdie, a physical agent for sustainable outdoor maintenance capable of learning multiple power tools.

Verdie was trained in the @nvidia Isaac simulator for just 5 hours before string trimming lawns for the first time.

Verdie is being deployed in 2024 to work alongside our service crews to automate many different dull, dangerous and dirty tasks.

[Electrek.co @ElectrekCo]

Meet Verdie – An electric, AI-powered robot that can do all your landscaping [Video] https://t.co/K658qXWUyI by @scooterdoll

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Today's service that AI is disrupting?

Landscaping.

When I was a kid I'd get paid a few bucks to mow the neighbors' lawns.

This morning I visited a robotics/AI company, @sheeprobotics, that's disrupting the same job.

When I drove around America last year I noticed a lot of people have robots mowing their lawns already.

The AI inside Sheep Robotics is much more flexible than run today's robot mowers. With the competitor's you need to put some sort of boundary around your lawn, often a wire, but increasingly virtual.

Electric Sheep uses an end-to-end neural network that works like an autonomous vehicle can. In the best cases, like with Tesla, they can drive down a street they never have been on before.

Same here, the AI first has a look around and then plans its work and keeps track of where it's been on the lawn, to make sure everything is evenly cut.

This is two parts, first outside so you can see the robots in action, then inside its R&D facility, where we get a little nerdier with the CTO.

Sorry about the wind noise on the first one, I shot these on my Apple Vision Pro and it clearly doesn't deal with wind noise very well yet so I will avoid that in the future.

Part II in thread/replies.