Best accounts to follow from each robot lab to see the next humanoid demo before it goes viral
Physical Intelligence
@hausman_k - co-founder; worked on RT-2 at Google before starting PI
@kvablack - first author of the π0 paper, the open robot brain you can fine-tune yourself
@KarlPertsch - robot datasets and open VLAs; DROID and OpenVLA
NVIDIA
@DrJimFan - Director of Robotics; posts every big GR00T and humanoid update
@ankurhandos - co-leads the team chasing superhuman robot hands
@AjayMandlekar - simulation research for GR00T; turns a few demos into thousands
Humanoid builders
@adcock_brett - Figure CEO; Helix and every new Figure demo
@BerntBornich - 1X CEO; NEO, the home humanoid you can preorder
@chris_j_paxton - AI at Agility; honest takes on everyone else's demos
New robot startups
@tonyzzhao - Sunday CEO; built ALOHA during his Stanford PhD
@chichengcc - Sunday CTO; created Diffusion Policy
@peteflorence - Generalist CEO; scaling robot foundation models
Open source
@0x_meden - breaks down robot jobs, free courses and open-source robots
@LeRobotHF - the library that trains robot brains on a $122 arm
@kevin_zakka - built MuJoCo Menagerie and mjlab, free robot models and sim training
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