Natalie

Building cute, open source, physical AI pet robots @plaipinHQ

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

Tonight's photoshoot came out perfect 🥰

Social robots for everyday spaces

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

What a great time to be building in hardware

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@irvinxyz crazy how it cracked so easily at the end

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@0xbl33p @X It was awkward in-person, they would search ‘natalie’ and I’m like yeah….

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

Hi everyone, I’m Natalie Yeo and my handle from now on is @natalieyeo

Thank you @X and great to meet you 🙋‍♀️

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@irvinxyz @X Thank you!

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@frederickjames @X Thanks! I’m so happy it got approved

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@himanshuxspark What a future

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

2026 is the year of the cute home robots!

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

We have a huge news to share today!

Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck

A 25 cm tiny open-source biped with 15 actuators and packed with sensors (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, bluetooth, wifi, etc) that you train yourself with reinforcement learning.

It's also playable out of the box with more than half a dozen fun and playful pre-trained policies to have it walk, sit, crouch, roller-skate, pick up objects with its articulated beak, and recover on its own.

And all for less than $400.

See all the details, play with the simulator and order it at: https://t.co/n1Btgs6vKw

(video with sound on 🔊)

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@jetpippo Coming out before microduck :)

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@gold_rootlet Definitely

[hirad @hiradp]

engineers being upset at the level of abstraction new engineers operate at is a tale as old as time.

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@VadimStrizheus building really good product is super time consuming

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@jia_seed keep moving!

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@jakecastilloooo great stuff!

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

Some of the best builders are getting into hardware

Exciting times!

[ilham @ilhamfputra]

Can Gemma run locally on an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano, with eyes, ears, a voice, and control of its camera?

Last weekend I found out: Yes :)

Gemma 4 E2B is the only open-weight model I found that fits this 8GB stack with native image/audio input and function calling

Take a look👇

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@fewerwrong Congrats!

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@Hello_World let's go

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

"The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home. A blue collar work ethic married to indomitable will. It is literally that simple. Nothing interferes. Nothing can sway you from your purpose. Once the decision is made, simply refuse to budge. Refuse to compromise."

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

@irvinxyz that's cool!

[Natalie @natalieyeo]

Weekends are the best time to build

A full house of builders working on local models

[Ivan Leo @ivanleomk]

Great event today hacking with over 60 teams to build on our Gemini models!

Cant wait for the next :)