Vitor Abrantes

Industrial deep tech entrepreneur

[Tiago Antunes @tiagomanel]

Novo: Imigração em Portugal no https://t.co/lAxValp45d 🌍

Já é possível explorar a população estrangeira residente em Portugal, países de origem, distribuição por género, concessões de títulos de residência e aquisição de nacionalidade.

Inclui mapa mundial de origens, evolução temporal, rankings e insights para perceber melhor como estes dados têm evoluído.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Becky Kennedy flipped how I think about kids’ meltdowns and frustration

She says true resilience isn’t avoiding hard things, it’s learning to tolerate them. When your toddler is losing it over a puzzle and begging “do it for me,” that’s actually your Super Bowl moment as a parent. Those are the times you’re wiring their nervous system for how they’ll handle life later.

Her line that stuck with me: “A parent’s words become a child’s self-talk.”

This one really made me pause. I’ve jumped in too fast to fix frustration instead of sitting with it. Being the “dimmer switch” for big emotions instead of the off switch feels like such a better approach.

We’re not raising kids for an easy life. We’re raising them to handle a hard one. The small moments of tolerated discomfort build real strength.

Have you caught yourself rescuing your kid from frustration too quickly, or are you learning to sit with it?

[Tyler Oliveira @tyleraloevera]

I Exposed Portugal's Indían Invasion...

[Vitor Abrantes @vitor_tech]

The EM spectrum is now a contested defense domain. Coilguns, railguns, DEW, EW, drone EW payloads all scaling at once.

NATO platforms need lighter, absorption-based EMI shielding, produced in Europe. That is what we build at Graphenest.
#NATO #ElectronicWarfare

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 China just unveiled a handheld electromagnetic gun that fires 1,000 to 2,000 rounds per minute with no gunpowder, no bullets, and no loud noise.

The U.S. spent 15 years and $500 million trying to build something similar before scrapping the program entirely.

Source: BusinessBasicsYT

[Vitor Abrantes @vitor_tech]

Graphene is no longer a promise. For EMI shielding it solves real problems that metals handle poorly: weight, complex manufacturing, strained supply chains.

Bruno Figueiredo in Visão (PT) on where it makes sense and why the next step is scale.

https://t.co/BEZnOFmpJV

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

This is Europe, the greatest civilization to have ever existed.

But above all, it is our home. We have no other, and we are not willing to lose it.

That’s why, for the sake of our children, we will make Remigration happen.

See you at @RESUM26.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

“General rule of thumb: if a problem is being presented as a global crisis with the assertion that only global solutions are permissible, then it is a scam.”

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Welcome to the Artemis Accords, Portugal! 🇵🇹

One of America's oldest allies has joined this growing coalition of nations committed to safe, transparent, and peaceful exploration of space.

This 60th signing strengthens the Artemis alliance, ignites more opportunities for transatlantic collaboration, and helps build the orbital and lunar economy.

[Dr Pero Micic @PeroMicic]

CEO's question: What will be the hourly cost of work of a humanoid robot?

Several projections have been published, e.g. by @CernBasher, @adam_dorr and @GoingBallistic5. Here's my take.
I've produced a long-form video on this question (see link in comments).

Here is the essence - based on very conservative assumptions (see attached image).

- Production cost: $30,000. A humanoid is ~5% the mass of a passenger car. The costly parts are actuators and gearboxes; the rest is electronics, sensors, a few kWh of batteries, and plastics—components that are highly scalable in volume manufacturing.

- Operating cost: $30,000 per year, of which $18,000 is human oversight and coordination. This is likely way too high.

- Operating time: 6,600 hours per year (330 days × 20 hours/day). That equals the yearly working time of more than three people.

- Work speed vs. humans: 100% initially. As with industrial robots, later generations will likely reach 200%+.

- Business model: Most manufacturers will offer Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) rather than selling units, because it drives far higher revenue and margin. Expect an initial one-time fee roughly equal to manufacturing cost plus a usage fee per year, month, day, or hour.

- Service life (incl. repairs): 8 years.

- Market dynamics: Because humanoids will be highly profitable to use (see below), demand will ramp quickly. But many suppliers will enter, so sustained overly high monopoly pricing is unlikely.

Result: Based on these assumptions, a humanoid work hour will cost at most $14.

That’s the highest realistic value. With learning effects and scale, the hourly cost will drop below $10 and likely below $5. @rethink_x even projects that by 2035 a humanoid hour could cost less than $1.

By comparison, a skilled worker’s fully loaded hour is $42.53.

Strategic consequence: In competitive markets, companies will have no real choice: first to replace labor shortages, and soon to replace existing roles. Even at $14/hour, the financial advantage vs. human labor is close to $200,000 per robot per year.

I’ve published a three-part video series on the societal implications of this inevitable shift (see comments).

Urgent advice: If you make or move anything physical, start rethinking your business around humanoids—as a supplier, service provider, or user. It is quiet now, but the ramp-up will be fast.

How about you? Which tasks would you deploy humanoids for first?

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 ALERT: Open Interest hits 2025 low and nears Extreme Fear, signaling potential selling exhaustion according to a CryptoQuant analyst.

[Partido Libertário 🇵🇹 @libertariopt]

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[Carl ₿ MENGER ⚡️🇸🇻 @CarlBMenger]

Gonna shake out the whiney b*tches. #Bitcoin

[PS a ser PS @PSaserPS]

História em directo 🔴

[Leonor 👸 @LeonortheQueen]

A Margaret Thatcher tinha uma capacidade de análise, magnetismo político e estrutura emocional para dar a volta ao mundo ...

Temos uma Ursula von der Leyen que criou a capacidade mental de uma ursa para varrer a identidade da Europa

Os incautos batem palmas🙃

[claudiashandi 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 @claudiashandi]

Portugal apoia o Chat control com 21 eurodeputados a favor. Partilhem massivamente…

Podem ir à página https://t.co/uXFUfnxDQM e contactar os MEP portugueses e expressar as vossas preocupações.

[Partido Libertário 🇵🇹 @libertariopt]

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[Partido Libertário 🇵🇹 @libertariopt]

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[Partido Libertário 🇵🇹 @libertariopt]

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[Tony Ventura @TonyVPortugal]

Não acontece só com pássaros... 🙄

[Partido Libertário 🇵🇹 @libertariopt]

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