maximwilliams

[Fondo.com @Fondocom]

A robot-training camera can’t see a hand inside a box.

@maximSwilliams and @PatankarArsh are building @Axonnic_ to record forearm muscle signals, tracking movement and estimating force.

The company says its sleeves are shipping and paid pilots are underway.

https://t.co/Vlh1LPTqrN

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

The internet of the physical world will be built by making something people want to use.

#YCF26

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

@krish_k07 @Axonnic_ @ycombinator @PatankarArsh Thanks man!

[Axonnic @Axonnic_]

Human hands built the world. Let’s teach robots how.

Today we’re launching Axonnic (YC F26): an EMG sleeve that captures finger movement + force to train robots on real human skill 🦾

w/ @ycombinator, @PatankarArsh & @maximSwilliams

YC: https://t.co/94CdCs5e2Z

[Axonnic @Axonnic_]

Axonnic launch 😊🚀

https://t.co/JBxuwnIp9W

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

My hand disappears but I still know what it does 🤯

Bleeding edge tech is indistinguishable from magic 🪄

We’re tracking individual finger movements in real time, just from electrical signals in your forearm.

We can even tell pressure data!

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

Controlling a robotic hand in real time. No cameras, just muscle signals 🤯

Our full-sleeve EMG + Arsh Patankar’s model feel like magic 🪄

Axonnic 💪🦾

#Robotics #EMG #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

Axonnic launch 😊🚀

https://t.co/qQZhjVIm76

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

What if AI could understand the physical world through your hand?

Axonnic reads subtle forearm signals to work out what someone is holding — creating a new input layer for humans, computers, and embodied AI.

#AI #Wearables #Robotics #EMG #HCI #Axonnic

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

Letting AI feel the physical world through the human hand.

Axonnic can recognise what someone is holding from subtle forearm signals — turning human movement into a new kind of physical-world data.

Higher bandwidth for humans.
Richer input for AI.

#AI #Wearables #Robotics #HCI

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

Controlling Doom with a banana looks like a joke.

But the input is real: forearm EMG turning muscle activity into digital control.

Starting with gaming — building toward a better input layer for computers and AI.

https://t.co/qQZhjVHOhy

[maximwilliams @maximSwilliams]

I hacked a Mindflex EEG headset into an Arduino.

Cool demo, but it made the problem obvious: EEG is too noisy for practical HCI.

That pushed me toward forearm EMG.

Not mind-reading — just better inputs for human–AI symbiosis.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 GEN Z IS DITCHING SMARTPHONES FOR BLACKBERRYS... AND THEY'RE DEAD SERIOUS

Burned out by constant notifications, surveillance, and algorithmic manipulation, thousands of Gen Z users are abandoning iPhones and Androids for “dumbphones.”

Especially old-school BlackBerrys.

Decorated with rhinestones and charms, these retro devices are popping up all over TikTok.

But the aesthetic is secondary.

The trend is driven by exhaustion: from doomscrolling, from dopamine hijacks, from being tracked and sold.

Some BlackBerrys are going for hundreds of dollars on resale sites.

Compared to $1,200 iPhones and $70/month data plans, Gen Z says the swap is a small price for clarity.

This is not just nostalgia.... it’s rebellion.

Against surveillance, against weaponized dopamine, and against being a product.

A BlackBerry doesn’t feed you ads.

It doesn’t know your every move.

Source: NY Post

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Zuckerberg just announced the largest shift in human perception since the invention of the written word.

He framed it as a product update.

Zuckerberg: “The main value we’re trying to bring is this feeling of presence.”

Presence used to be the one thing technology could not counterfeit.

You showed up. You gave your time. You endured the friction of being seen with nothing between you and another person.

The discomfort was the proof. If it felt effortless, it wasn’t real.

Zuckerberg wants to manufacture the feeling without the physics.

A feeling stripped of friction has a different name. It is called a simulation.

Zuckerberg: “Glasses are going to be the ideal form factor… they can let them see what you see and hear what you hear.”

The previous era of technology captured what you typed. What you clicked. What you purchased.

All of it after the fact. All of it voluntary.

This captures what you see before you decide what it means.

Zuckerberg: “It has to have context and understand what’s going on in your life, both kind of at a global level and like what’s physically happening around you right now.”

He is not describing a search engine. He is describing an intelligence that requires your entire sensory field just to operate.

Your vision. Your surroundings. Your reflexes. All of it captured before you even form a reaction.

The part that should unsettle you is not the technology itself.

It is that none of this requires a conspiracy.

The product will be genuinely useful. The AI will be genuinely helpful. The exchange will feel so seamless that most people will never pause to ask what they gave up.

That is the design. Not coercion. Comfort.

The most valuable asset of the next decade will not be compute or data or capital.

It will be unmediated perception.

The ability to look at the world and know that nothing between your eyes and reality has an agenda.

Every generation faces a question about what it is willing to trade for convenience.

This generation’s question is whether to let a machine see the world for you or insist on seeing it yourself.

The ones who refuse the filter will be the only ones still seeing anything real.