Given this positioning and apparent direct assault on human labor, I’m sort of surprised to see the investor list: “Mechanize is backed by investments from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Dwarkesh Patel, Jeff Dean, Sholto Douglas, and Marcus Abramovitch.”
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Helsing Unveils HX-2 Strike Drones for Autonomous Operations
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This is the HX-2 Strike Drones from Helsing
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Boston Dynamics Robots Replace Human Cameramen with AI
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Les robots intelligents de @BostonDynamics peuvent remplacer les caméramans
— Docteur Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre) 17 avril 2025
Ils coûtent presque rien et travaillent jour et nuit
pic.twitter.com/RmBtB6eHXmLes robots intelligents de @BostonDynamics peuvent remplacer les caméramans Ils coûtent presque rien et travaillent jour et nuit
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Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Now Works as a Camera Operator
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Le robot Atlas de Boston Dynamics peut désormais être cadreur. 🤯
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 17 avril 2025
Plans précis, sécurité totale pour l’équipe de tournage.
l'IA avance. pic.twitter.com/wNzDKQGWQwLe robot Atlas de Boston Dynamics peut désormais être cadreur. Plans précis, sécurité totale pour l’équipe de tournage. l'IA avance.
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Large Robot Action Models and Engineering at CRAY Colloquium
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Looking forward to presenting at the CRAY Colloquium on Monday: "Is Data All You Need?: Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering" https://
cse.umn.edu/cs/events/cray
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Matic Robot Vacuum: Five Years of AI Progress
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Seeing Matic at work cleaning my apartment (as an early robot vacuum customer over the last 5 years) has given me appreciate for just how much progress has been made in the last 2 years. Truly a night and day different experience… and the googley eyes : ) pic.twitter.com/OiN8EmrN9e
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) 16 avril 2025Seeing Matic at work cleaning my apartment (as an early robot vacuum customer over the last 5 years) has given me appreciate for just how much progress has been made in the last 2 years. Truly a night and day different experience… and the googley eyes : )
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Scaling Home Robotics with On-Device AI: CEO Interview
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An unfiltered conversation with @mehul
, CEO of Matic Robots… We dive deep into what is needed to scale home robotics by 100x, the opportunity and challenge of on-device AI, reviving a decade old product category, and more! https://
youtu.be/lUHHSnMsSoI?si
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Hugging Face Acquires Pollen Robotics for Open Humanoid Development
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Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup building open-source humanoids
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 15 avril 2025
Pollen is already selling Reachy 2, an open and VR-compatible humanoid for research, education, and embodied AI
A big move from HF in open robotics!pic.twitter.com/PUyCqLvyABHugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup building open-source humanoids Pollen is already selling Reachy 2, an open and VR-compatible humanoid for research, education, and embodied AI A big move from HF in open robotics!
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Research Taste Training Difficulty in Robotics Scenarios
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This scenario is interesting. No mention of robotics but I really like the notes about the difficulty of training for “research taste.”
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Hugging Face Acquires Pollen Robotics for Open-Source Robots
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Super happy to announce that we are acquiring @pollenrobotics to bring open-source robots to the world! Since @RemiCadene joined us from Tesla, we’ve become the most widely used software platform for open robotics thanks to @LeRobotHF and the Hugging Face Hub. Now, we’re