Trevor Knott

@KnottDynamics.

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Robotics. Software. Hardware.

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

irl tendon-based hands content coming soon including sim2real examples

[AIstasiia @aistasiia]

The robot uprising we deserve

[ヤマリキ@AI_robotics @rikiya_y]

太陽光だけで羽ばたく超小型飛行ロボットが史上初めて実現した、という話。重さ数百ミリグラムの機体が電力を自己調達できるのか。応用範囲広そう。

[mete @VaderResearch]

Boston Dynamics Atlas, 12 years evolving

✶ 2013 | First Steps
✶ 2015 | DARPA Challenge
✶ 2016 | Next Generation
✶ 2017 | First Backflip
✶ 2025 | Fully electric Atlas

From a DARPA research robot to a humanoid built to move, manipulate and work in the real world.

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

https://t.co/guMcAM05XY

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

I bet my engine could beat the bullet drone world record.

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

I will show the engines + internals in a little. This is just one of the few daily designs I always do.

This will be able to fly + all urdf ready if you want to sim2real.

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

I will show the engines + internals in a little. This is just one of the few daily designs I always do.

This will be able to fly + all urdf ready if you want to sim2real.

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

@_krishnasuresh It would be cool to hook an arm to a boat as a demonstration and have it tie itself when it docks.

[Krishna Suresh @_krishnasuresh]

Surprisingly a robot can sometimes do highly-dynamic manipulation by just copying the demonstration 🤠. Without any learning, cracking a whip or lassoing a cleat can be done directly from human motion capture. And amazingly this process can be nearly automatically implemented by GPT-6 Astra

Check out the full blog post with fun visuals: https://t.co/Ze6tDOSZV8

Turn on sound for full effect 🔈

Quick side note: the whips shown in this post are called signal/stock whips. These whips are built to generate the loud cracking noise when the tip breaks the sound barrier and is a popular art form: https://t.co/GYz0lxEFSu.

[Seth @MoonLitInferno_]

@skitzocat

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

@ShaneStoffer Become a co-founder in my robot company and we rip throats together. There is crazy dopamine hits here and a huge risk to reward play to kill Goliaths.

[John smith @Bojangles_11]

@beachmonsta This won’t age well

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

Damn they just don't fk w/ me.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

@ Founders under 200 followers, what are you building?

If it's cool, I'll invite you to our 60k sqft lab in SF

Bonus point if it’s hardware & physical inteligence

[Knott Dynamics @KnottDynamics]

https://t.co/jSyXjxFeWl

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

@TotalPhilo

[Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR]

Remember when we used to argue about tabs vs spaces in our code

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

NOBODY tells Americans this part of the story.

March 11, 2011.
A black, 30-foot wall of ocean swallowed Northeast Japan.
Our government froze. The Pentagon had no orders.
Communications were dead.

You know what Captain Thom Burke and Rear Admiral Robert Girrier did on the USS Ronald Reagan?

They didn't wait for the White House.
They didn't wait for paperwork.
They looked at the TV screen, saw their friend drowning, and committed the ultimate military sin:

UNAUTHORIZED ADVANCE.

“We’re going. NOW.”
They turned the massive nuclear carrier full throttle straight into the disaster zone.

Then came the hydrogen explosions at Fukushima.
Radiation plumes drifted across the Pacific.
Every foreign embassy told their citizens: RUN.
The US Embassy ordered an evacuation zone: STAY 50 MILES AWAY.

Did the Ronald Reagan turn around?
DID YOUR SAILORS RUN?

NOT. ONE. INCH.

Nineteen-year-old kids from Texas and Ohio stood on a freezing flight deck, radiation detectors in hand, launching helicopters into blizzards.
They hovered over submerged rooftops, pulling shivering mothers and babies out of the black water.
When Japanese refugees were brought aboard shivering in shock, your sailors gave up their own warm bunks and slept on the cold steel floor.

While the rest of the world ran away from Japan,
AMERICA CHARGED STRAIGHT INTO THE FIRE.

You didn't do it for a treaty.
You didn't do it for politicians.
You saw your friend bleeding, and you kicked the doors down to save us.

Happy 250th, America.
Japan will remember your boys forever. 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

[Trevor Knott @TrevorKnottOG]

@ajambrosino 😆

[Bay @baysights]

@thsottiaux Who pushed to prod on a Friday

[Andrew Ambrosino @ajambrosino]

cooked a little close to sun with the sidebar update, sorry about that folks