Leander Maerkisch

Building humanoids to turn physical jobs into remote work

[Leander Maerkisch @leander01_]

@PHOENIXCALLS1 Good to know

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Figure live streamed an 8h shift of a humanoid doing work autonomous. Weirdly enough, it misses a bunch of packages -> adjusts headset -> no longer misses. Looks like teleoperation pretending to be autonomous to me.

Despite all these fancy videos, we're still a few years away from general-purpose, autonomous humanoids. Instead of faking autonomy, we at Starlife build humanoids for teleoperation-only, simply using them as a vessel to turn physical jobs into remote work

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@Lil__hampton @Modulr_Robotics Good to know

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@TweetsOfSumit @peer_rich Really good thinking

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@PabloAntonio Love the thinking! Literally what we are doing at Starlife

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@nicodhnr @minitap_ai Congrats!

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[Leander Maerkisch @leander01_]

@PHOENIXCALLS1 That's great! I'll send you a DM

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I find myself increasingly more hand-writing than using AI. Writing is a forcing function for clear thinking. Outsourcing this to LLMs has detrimental effect on actual understanding.

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@traders_guild Yes. But where are they? Did not have the success in the past.

The Palm Pilot launched in 1996 but it took the iPhone ~10 years later to make Smartphones go mainstream.

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Went to the physical AI meet-up in NYC last Wednesday. While I spending an hour in traffic to get there, my cofounder Satrajit just logged into the robot from home and explained the technology.

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Our robot Bella started hitting the gym, now much bulkier!

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@aamir1rasheed Love it!

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Since moving to NYC, we started hosting bi-weekly casual robotics dinners to bring the small (but growing!) robotics community together. Let me know if you want to join next time!

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@ademidunk Perfect, come around! Everyone starts small :)

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@Mohossy1 Wonderful! Just send me a DM for the Luma link

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@tom_jiahao Super intriguing design, feels lifelike! What's the material you've used for the "skin"?

[Leander Maerkisch @leander01_]

@NickBuilds11 Well, I thought so. Definitely nothing off-the-shelf. Looks parallel. Any limitations you've experienced compared to, let's say 3-finger end-effector?

I really like your upper/under arm design, so sleek!

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@ConejoCapital Yes, come around! Just DM

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@jiwzakir Wonderful! Just DM me; will send you a link!

[Leander Maerkisch @leander01_]

@StonegardensAdv Most welcome!