Simon Ang'ina

@amazonlab126 |  WWDC26 Scholar | ECE @riceuniversity

[Simon Ang'ina @rxmxnvs]

Went from reading research papers in Nairobi to building an AI app Apple recognized. Wild.
#SwiftStudentChallenge

[Simon Ang'ina @rxmxnvs]

mailto: is MID
https://t.co/XOv1NpRU9M

[Simon Ang'ina @rxmxnvs]

@JeffNippard Bro, I can’t wait to add semicolons to this rough draft in 13 years

[Simon Ang'ina @rxmxnvs]

@allgarbled He was gatekeeping the idea, so they could do it😭

[Simon Ang'ina @rxmxnvs]

AR and Robotics are on the verge of a boom

[Ryohei Sasaki@engineer @rsasaki0109]

[NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)] The implementation for the paper "4DGT Learning a 4D Gaussian Transformer Using Real-World Monocular Videos"
https://t.co/x16oJxdhxv

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

Of course mjlab supports the native MuJoCo viewer. Makes it a breeze to pause, slow down, inspect contacts, perturb the robot, etc. There's also a brand new pane for reward visualization :)

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

First foundation model that zero-shot runs on any robot arm.

[📍 Fully open source]

What if robot arms could learn new tasks with zero data collection or fine-tuning?

That is what the team behind RDT2 just demonstrated.

RDT2 is the first foundation model that zero-shot deploys across robot arms, unseen scenes, objects, and instructions. Plug and play robotics…

No extra training.

✅ 10,000 hours of human manipulation data from 100 real homes with redesigned UMI hardware
✅ 7B one-step diffusion policy running at 23 Hz for real-time closed-loop control
✅ Zero-shot: pick, place, press, wipe, block arrows at 30 m/s, play ping-pong, extinguish burning incense

The result is a clear milestone:

models that generalize across embodiments and environments, moving toward embodied superintelligence.

Amazing work by the team, thanks for sharing, @songming_liu!

📍Project: https://t.co/KloV8tjPck

Code: https://t.co/Vf3HLDMRbP

[tokenbender @tokenbender]

this is beyond mindblowing for me.

somebody built a 5 million param language model inside minecraft, trained it, equipped it with basic conversational ability.

probably the best thing i have seen entire month.

[Pramod Goyal @goyal__pramod]

This guy did everything that takes labs months and insane funding to do. All alone!!!

Seriously check his work out, real cracked engineer.

[Simon Ang'ina @rxmxnvs]

What’s stopping you from shipping like this??

[Simon Ang'ina @rxmxnvs]

@kylecompute “This chart was generated without thinking mode”