Vyra

Mind Monster | AI & Robotics | Inventor | Founder @blackhardslabs

[Vyra @vyra_official]

I built Amara—a blockchain AI agent on @rwaassetchain that lets you perform everyday crypto transactions using voice prompts with an interactive 3d Character, A fusion between #Blockchain, #AI, & #Gaming Tech.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Steve Jobs used to go around to his engineers’ computers and take RAM out of them (back in 1989). Heard this story from the original Mac team.

Why?

Constraints cause innovation.

Silicon Valley knows this, or should.

Go talk to Russian programmers who are often running tech companies about how they learned to write tight code on shitty computers.

Taking away NVIDIA’s best cards from China will prove to be a remarkably stupid move for America.

That just motivated nerds in China.

[Vyra @vyra_official]

@paystack @paystack @PaystackSupport

[Vyra @vyra_official]

@paystack if it continues like this I would have no choice but to submit a petition.

[Vyra @vyra_official]

@paystack @paystack @PaystackSupport

[Vyra @vyra_official]

@paystack For almost a month now it's the same message you keep sending me, no status on review progress, please release my funds let me look for a different payment gateway, your CS is shitty.

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Robots helping with grain bins! 🌾

That's quite an interesting use case for robots.

Let's break it down!

So grain bins are explosion hazards. The interior is classified as an Ex-zone due to dust that can ignite. That's just the beginning.

It takes less than five seconds to become helplessly trapped in flowing grain, less than thirty seconds to be fully engulfed.

Purdue data shows 22 fatalities in confined spaces such as grain bins. That's why it's a great application for robotics.

This robot from @Grain_Weevil is about two feet long, weighs 50 pounds, and uses two motorized augers for propulsion.

As it moves, it creates a "controlled avalanche", grain breaks up and levels itself using gravity.

It handles the work farmers do manually: leveling grain, breaking crusts and bridges that form from moisture, removing grain from walls, and feeding extraction augers during unloading.

Current version runs 1-2 hours on a 15-20 minute charge. Farmers control it from outside the bin with a remote and camera system. Full autonomy is coming by fall 2026.

GPS and Wi-Fi don't penetrate steel grain bins.

Traditional autonomous machines fail. Grain Weevil is overcoming this by mounting small magnetic radio devices outside the grain bin, triangulating space so the robot maps the interior in real time. 📻

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[Xiuyu Li @sheriyuo]

Xiaomi-Robotics-U0 is a 38B autoregressive world foundation model that keeps general image and video generation in the training mix while learning multi-view embodied synthesis, and its synthetic data raises a real-robot policy's out-of-distribution success from 36.9% to 63.2%.

Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model
Paper: https://t.co/V7jQP9M8LI

[ADF Magazine @ADFmagazine]

Interesting look at Africa’s rapidly expanding drone revolutionInteresting look at Africa’s rapidly expanding drone revolutionInteresting look at Africa’s rapidly expanding drone revolution.

[Vyra @vyra_official]

@CS2_skillIssue bros response time is less than 2ms, practically terrorizing the lobby in COD.

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

I'm growing skeptical of strong claims about new frontier model superiority. I have a dozen unsolved research problems that I run the new models on and I don't see any meaningful difference in performance since Sonnet.

[Akash Sharma @akashshrm02]

This was my final Ph.D. work co-led by Rosy Chen and I.

Prior work fixates on zero-shot sim-to-real resulting in compromises such as the choice of simple sensors like proprioception.
With PTLD we show that if you're allowed to collect a little real data, you can actually deploy rich sensorimotor policies with significantly stronger performance.

Paper: PTLD: Sim-to-Real Privileged Tactile Latent Distillation for Dexterous Manipulation.
@rosychen0501, @mukadammh, @michaelkaess, Tingfan Wu, Francois Hogan,@JitendraMalikCV, @akashshrm02

CMU · UW · UC Berkeley · FAIR at Meta.

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🌐 https://t.co/0MA3cBBd4R
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[Nathan Nwachuku @_KingNath]

Terra will help Nigeria become Africa's largest defense exporter in a few years. But beyond Africa, our goal is to defend the Global South against terrorism

The Global South cannot rely on imported Western and Chinese systems not designed for asymmetric warfare. We will need to build defense gigafactories across Africa, LATAM, & Southeast Asia to win the war on terror.

[Asimov @asimovinc]

Asimov 1 gives you everything you need to build a humanoid robot from scratch.

[Stocko 🦾 @_Stocko_]

seriously tho.. are linkages invented or discovered?

[Asimov @asimovinc]

Do yourself a favor and start learning robotics today.

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Modular robots that repair themselves by... stealing parts! 👀

A team at Columbia University built robots made of Truss Links, stick-shaped modules with magnetic connectors at each end.

Connect a few and you get a structure that can expand, contract, roll, and reshape itself.

If a link breaks or comes loose, the robot grabs a spare module nearby and rebuilds itself. No human intervention needed.

A tetrahedron-shaped robot grabbed a spare link like a walking stick.

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This combat robot from North East University of China really gives off Star Wars vibes.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Every single startup selling AI Training Data (July 2026)

>50 cos sell data and RL environments to big AI labs and drive AI progress behind the scenes.

They total ~$8.5B in rev and ~$100B in valuation, >75% of which are just 4 players: Scale, Surge, Mercor and Handshake.

[Tengiz @tengizlab]

Highly Automated Manufacturing of Carbon Fiber Aircraft Structures

Large carbon fiber aircraft structures are manufactured using an automated robotic production line that integrates CFRP layup, compaction, quality inspection, stringer installation, and vacuum bagging. The process is digitally monitored and controlled through a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Demonstrated by the DLR.

[Tengiz @tengizlab]

Metal 3D Printing an Industrial Axial Fan

This hollow axial fan is manufactured using laser metal deposition (DED) on a robotic system, enabling complex geometries while reducing material usage, weight, and machining.
🎥Meltio