Marc Duboc

Building systems for intelligent robots
Robotics & 3D Vision at Seoul National University

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

Every calendar you own, in your Omarchy bar. v1.4.0 of Chronica is officially out!

Google, iCloud, Proton, Outlook, Fastmail (JMAP), Nextcloud, any .ics.
Two-way: add/delete events from the panel. Reminders. One-click Meet/Zoom/Teams join.
Super lightweight and no daemon!

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

May the build continue!

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

Today we started building our firefighting humanoid robot Sobang-I, very excited for this

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@AravSrinivas Who is paying for perplexity??

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@BratDotAI Even actual max usage is hard to reach

[François Chollet @fchollet]

You can't solve real-world physical tasks through autoregressive sampling alone. The physical world is entirely unforgiving to hallucination or approximate pattern matching. If we want actual autonomous robotics we have to engineer causality and discrete reasoning back into the loop.

Biwei and the team at Aether AI is doing exactly the kind of foundational, non-consensus work the field actually needs right now.

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

What if Spotlight actually understood the meaning inside your files?

DigUp is an open-source macOS menu bar app powered by EmbeddingGemma 2 that brings 100% local, multimodal semantic search to your Mac.

Instead of searching for file names, you can use natural language to:

📸 Find specific scenes in your photos
⏳ Jump to the exact timestamp in audio or video
💻 Search through your codebase by intent

Everything runs locally in a single vector space.

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@physical_int That's a great step toward the robotic flywheel congrats! could you indicate which OS are most robot boards running?

[Physical Intelligence @physical_int]

Announcing the beta release of the Pi API. We’ve partnered with companies across diverse industries to adapt our models to their robots and applications, from harvesting strawberries to assembling servers. Now we’re opening access to more teams.

[Keerthana Gopalakrishnan @keerthanpg]

Gemini 4 Argon is a step change and will have massive impact on robotics. We have published a developer blog to show various ways in which Argon accelerates robotics.

https://t.co/8uHCuEizsX

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@rsasaki0109 That is cool. How long can it keep track of the env and can it survive someone moving stuff around??

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@RoboParty_DEV looks super cool, thank you!

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@DavidHHMack @Ultraroboticsco @hiFramework Makes sense. NixOS feels like a good fit for reliable, and reproducible deployments. Roughly what split are you seeing between edge and cloud right now?

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@maralcbr @dhh @omarchy @OmarchyMac that would be great, thanks for all your great work!

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@octi_zhang @patrickhyin @iggydagnino @mateoguaman @rosario_scaling The gear and peg stuff is wild for pure sim. Curious how you tell the insertion actually seated once it's on the real robot.

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

Most robot data is just a trajectory with someone saying it worked. That doesn't survive a different gripper, a different camera, or a different idea of what "done" means. So pooling it across robots is kinda fake.

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@im_manderson @Ultraroboticsco @JonMSchwartz Congrats! That’s huge

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@omarchy Welcome!

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

@NliGjvJbycSeD6t Congrats on the acceptance, that looks super duper cool

[Marc Duboc @proma__]

Building a robotic flywheel is actually insanely hard because of those three points.

1. Robots come in very heterogeneous forms
2. Robots have very different hardware (cameras, actuators, etc.)
3. It's actually very hard to verify if a task was accomplished successfully

Without that last one, more deployed robots don't automatically give you data you can retrain on.