wildengineer

Engineer that likes to build things. Software, metalworks, electronics.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

@comed hourly rate customer question: why do the hourly rates dramatically rise to $.25+ (I’ve seen up to a dollar) but never drop that low? Seems statistically slanted.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

@Tesla Cybertruck feature request: I’d like to be able to charge my Cybertruck while towing. The ford lightening can do it. With the huge drop in efficiency, it is awful to tow any distance over 100 miles. This feature will also help compete with hybrid trucks, REEVs, coming to the market.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

We need a Hexfellow Y200 9-axis IMU in the US. The Duty tax is rough for robotics engineers.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

Finally, solid state batteries in production. 1-100% charge and 100,000 cycles. This is amazing!!

https://t.co/4aabHAPWYZ

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

I did a quick and simple ActorCritic test with Isaac lab/sim 5.1 on an NVIDIA T4 in the cloud. Worked fine. You can scale up to pricier GPUs only when needed.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

The best part is the left turns are perfect. On v13, it was always too sharp of a turn.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

Cybertruck fsd 14.1.7 is great! Much more realistic driving!!!

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

This is nuts. 46% of Chicago budget is dept and pensions. In comparison, NYC is 17% and LA is 11%

Chicago needs significant reform….

https://t.co/iXIWRzpZGo

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

🚨 Hugging Face & Oxford just dropped the playbook for robot intelligence.

It’s called LeRobot, and it’s basically the “PyTorch of robotics.”

End-to-end code. Real hardware. Generalist robot policies. All open source.

Here’s why this is huge:

• Robots can now learn from data like LLMs not just follow equations.
• They’re training on massive multimodal datasets (video + sensors + text).
• One model can control many robots from humanoids to arms to mobile bots.
• Built entirely in PyTorch + Hugging Face Hub.

We’ve had “foundation models” for text, code, and images.

Now comes the foundation model for motion.

This isn’t just robotics research it’s the beginning of robots that learn, reason, and adapt in the real world.

GitHub: github. com/huggingface/lerobot

Paper: arxiv. org/abs/2510.12403

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Build a humanoid robot yourself! 🪚

OpenArm is an open-source humanoid robot.

It comes with full CAD, control code, firmware, and simulation tools, everything needed to build, modify, and operate it.

The arms are designed to be compliant and backdrivable. Teleoperation is supported, with force feedback and real-time gravity compensation so operators can guide the arm naturally.

Super important, on the simulation side, OpenArm works with platforms like MuJoCo and Isaac Sim, letting developers test policies in virtual environments before running on hardware.

Assemble it yourself from a kit or get it prebuilt, the goal is accessibility for research labs, small teams, and enthusiasts.

The project is run by Enactic in Tokyo, Japan, and aims to lower the barrier for experimenting with dexterous manipulation.

Let's put robotics in mainstream! 🔥🔥

P.S. I put the project page in the comments!

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

I’d love to see @Yale get involved in the @UFBots competition! Step into the engineering ring :)

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

@_ankurdeka_ @UFBots @UCBerkeley @Stanford @UnitreeRobotics @Xxxenia_k @TheHumanoidHub I’m hoping they use more cost efficient and/or open source robots in the future so more colleges would/could compete. Give college students a real competition and they’ll do amazing things! It’s needed in the humanoid space.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

@kscalelabs Great job guys!!

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

Quick stop in NYC, looking forward to college tailgating on Saturday!

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

@cybrtrkguy Did you stop at Fair oaks farm to charge?

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

@mrkylefield Yet it’s welcoming, safe, quiet, and clean. Tokyo is one of my favorite cities.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

She’s all set for college football tailgating, and we’re doing it three weekends in a row! I custom made the Cybertruck tv hitch mount. This year’s theme is brisket and waffles, which is a bit of a twist on the traditional waffles and chicken combination. What do you think?

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

@JDVance @grok in the ‘affordable care act’ subsidy that the democrats are trying to save, what group of people do the subsides help the most? How much does it help illegal aliens? Please answer in a non political bias way. Facts only.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

Humanoid robotics future: successful manufacturers will provide coarse-grain navigation and hardware. There will be a development ecosystem (app store) for finer-grain / task-driven services. The robots (s) that get to the open ecosystem (software dev) fastest at the best value will win. At a macro level, it’s this simple. The development ecosystem is critical for long-term success.

[wildengineer @wildengine00]

There needs to be a competing ESP32 product built outside of China. There is nothing else like it.