John Koetsier

OG Twitter. Part of the resistance. Was verified when it meant something.
🎙️TechFirst (AI, robotics, new tech)
✍🏼 @Forbes
📙No Other Gods (sci-fi, Amazon)

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

Hi there!

I'm usually elsewhere lately ...

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I'm guessing X will completely throttle this tweet, of course, so I doubt you will ever see it unless you go looking.

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[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Scott Pelley told the truth. So CBS News fired him.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

hey @invideoOfficial you have a ton of unanswered complaints in your support forum, including mine.

You've taken $70 USD of my cash and not delivered a single usable video.

[Quantum Automated Solutions @QAS_LLC]

What It will be like living with a humanoid robot in your house. The anticipation is killing me!

Follow for real life experiences with NEO from @1x_tech coming soon.

@johnkoetsier @radbackwards

https://t.co/4oOTbVwirL

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

Elon Musk's record on promises:

19%: achieved
35%: late
No update: 33%
13%: date still in the future

Arguably, if you're making BIG PROMISES, 1 in 5 right might not be horrible.

Also arguably, if you're a public company CEO, you should have a much better track record.

[Emerson S @Em_Nomadic]

Read something today that reframed how I think about robot hands.

I’ve seen plenty of humanoid companies talk about degrees of freedom, but I hadn’t spent much time thinking about the difference between degrees of freedom and actuated degrees of freedom.

The distinction is simple:

Just because a joint can move doesn’t mean the robot can actively control it.

What stood out to me about 1X’s NEO is the focus on being able to actuate and control every available degree of freedom in the hand.

It feels like one of those small details that ends up mattering a lot.

The gap between a robot that can move its fingers and a robot that can reliably manipulate objects in the real world is still massive.

Makes me think that some of the biggest breakthroughs in humanoids over the next few months to years won’t come from walking.

They’ll come from dexterity.

https://t.co/uIHEzlmlgz

[Mike Kalil @mikekalilmfg]

.@johnkoetsier: “1X head of product and design Dar Sleeper showed me something actually amazing on his phone. It was humanoid robot hands moving at incredible speed: a speed and dexterity I’ve never seen before from a robot. He swore it was real time and real speed, not sped up like so many robot demos.”

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

Vibe coding?

Here's the most important phrase to tell your AI when building something.

"Give me your ideas before doing anything."

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

A 2-year-old British startup just committed to shipping 100,000 humanoid robots by 2031. The math is in the actuators. My latest at Forbes: https://t.co/4hCt1rECau

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

AI agents couldn't pay... until now. Visa + InFlow launched agent-native payment infra, giving AI wallets with rules. My latest at Forbes: https://t.co/Xh6rovvGsZ

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

"Sovereignty is not solitude." Canada's AI Minister announced $300M for compute & a digital independence strategy, keeping US ties. My latest at Forbes: https://t.co/EbQUZDb4e9

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

Humanoid robots will hit homes LAST, not first. Sanctuary AI CEO James Wells explained why at Web Summit Vancouver, reframing current hype. My latest at Forbes: https://t.co/SSjuJ1jw0F

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

Free home cleaning — if you let robots watch.

NYC startup Shift cleans your home for free. The price: video of the cleaner trains humanoid robots. Already 1,000+ jumping on it.

Privacy questions remain: https://t.co/Itf4cmkaWa

[Quantum Automated Solutions @QAS_LLC]

The head of product design at 1X just dropped the real reason NEO looks so friendly… and it’s brilliant.

Soft knit fabric that makes it look vulnerable on purpose. Big ears that say “I’m listening.” No creepy human face.

This is how you make a $20k home humanoid robot people actually want in their house.

QAS is on the early adopter list this interview just got me even more excited. Follow for real life videos when we receive NEO later this year!!

Full interview here → https://t.co/6SskkiT6Ha

@1XTech @radbackwards @johnkoetsier
#NEO #HumanoidRobot #1XTech #HomeRobot #RobotDesign

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If you give a politician $5 to influence a vote, it’s bribery.

If billionaires spend $50 million to influence an election, it’s legal.

That is what a corrupt campaign finance system looks like.

[Yoshik @AskYoshik]

The AI bubble math doesn't add up.

Anthropic spends $3 to make $1 and that’s before you include any and all other costs like staff or electricity.

Microsoft dumped $300B in capex, made ~$18B in AI revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic alone make up 43-54% of Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle's entire revenue backlogs.

Enterprises are burning through annual AI budgets in 4 months with zero measurable ROI.

This is the most expensive science experiment in history, funded by your SaaS subscriptions.

[⭕ AI & Design (Marco) @AIandDesign]

I'm not gonna lie, the @Meta layoffs are some of the most dystopian I've ever seen. They got told to work from home, they were sent the emails at 4AM in the morning. Those who weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move, preparing AI to take their job as well. They're literally training the AI that will eliminate their position as well.

Meanwhile, Meta is raking in RECORD PROFITS.

I am a massive, unapologetic AI enthusiast. Yet, this is NOT the future I had in mind.

I wish for Meta to crash and burn. This is not the way. Literally nobody benefits from this.

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

The Red Bull garage is humming n pit lane at the Montreal Grand Prix today.

[John Koetsier @johnkoetsier]

@PatSnapEureka I'd like to interview someone at your company about this.