Christian Mochen @CMochen

successful robotic automation for different problems will need different actuators/reducers and to find the right answer it requires connecting the intent -> design -> manufacturing data -> performance data and back 1/

Yeok @yeokch

2 days ago

I've spent years in China building robots. I can tell you this playbook won't work: Pre-seed $: Invent the ultimate actuator. Seed $$: Figure out mass production. The hard part isn't inventing a beautiful topology. It's process engineering. The real delta between the US and

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People are starting to realize. This is why we built Atlas the way we did.

Yeok @yeokch

2 days ago

I've spent years in China building robots. I can tell you this playbook won't work: Pre-seed $: Invent the ultimate actuator. Seed $$: Figure out mass production. The hard part isn't inventing a beautiful topology. It's process engineering. The real delta between the US and

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@wsenti let’s chat

Motors and actuators for everyone.

Erik Bruckner @E_Bruxxx

3 days ago

Death, taxes, and humanoid startups

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If you believe robotics can maximize human potential, have exceptional ability in an area you love, have a passion for solving problems, and want to have fun—send me a dm. I promise we will chat. Carpe diem!

Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component

Extremely excited for these guys @atlasmotion - western indsutrial supply chains are constrained and not getting better overnight. @CMochen @tombaron @carlodlrs are setting out to change just that - starting with a facility in Long Beach and bridging the Pacific divide with joint manufacturing 🇺🇸🇵🇭

sorry for missing your inbound rob, addressing it with the team. The website was incorrect showing resistance being 125. It is 105. The rest of the gap between the motor you referenced and ours is in the fact that we are using a 2206.5 stator, resulting in a 15% smaller motor so we need more windings to achieve the same kV. we also took into account the resistance of the lead wires which other oem’s typically do not do. lmk if any more questions go unanswered!

great hat @nunzi46

Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX

2 weeks ago

30 days of Hard Tech: Day 3 🚀 Varda announced their $250m Series D I break it down with Mike Annunziata (Mike is your favorite VC's favorite VC) He was the first check in Varda and now a board member "At its core, Varda is a company doing in-space manufacturing and reentry

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I watched the state of the force, then I had the kids watch it. The three most important words: Autonomous War Command.

Panasonic, Dyson, Nidec, Toshiba, Mitsubishi and Toyota all manufacture in the Philippines. An ecosystem producing motors, components and finished products by the millions. Neil and EJ are two of the engineers building Atlas who came out of that world. Neil came to Atlas from Dyson, where he led electromagnetic design for the motor inside the famous Airwrap. He obsesses over the unglamorous details in winding, overmoulding, busbar fusing, that turn a great motor design into something you can actually make thousands of times. EJ started out building ultra-efficient vehicles for the Shell Eco-marathon at UST. He later joined Dyson as a mechatronics engineer, working across electromechanical design, process engineering, and line automation. When we decided to start by building in the Philippines, the bet was that world-class engineering and manufacturing talent was already there, with years of experience building really difficult products. We feel very lucky to have them.

life is a gift. don’t take it for granted.

Introducing the Atlas Standard Motor Series Our head of engineering @AveryMcmillan15 on what we chose to build and why:

spot on once again

Aaron Slodov @aphysicist

3 weeks ago

i hear (frequently) from people who try to over-intellectualize reindustrialization through various lenses in finance, economics, labor, technology, "free" market competition, etc. it's quite simple and doesn't require hardly any justification at this point. let me paint you a

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@mehul love this @mehul

After 9 years. 16K+ family homes. 500M sqft inside real homes covered, we know home robots are being built in wrong order. So we built Matic the way nature grows a child. Finally, sharing our vision: 1.⁠ ⁠Why robots get stuck at the demo 2.⁠ ⁠Why labs can't ship robots 3.⁠ ⁠Why we started with eyes, not hands 4.⁠ ⁠The 99.999% rule in robotics 5.⁠ ⁠Where Matic is going next 1. Why most robots get stuck at demos Robot demos look brilliant in a room arranged around its limitations: familiar lighting, predictable furniture, nothing troublesome on the floor. A family’s home makes no such accommodations. There are cables, toys, shifting rugs and, occasionally, dog poop. Yes, humanoids will need to avoid that too. Repeating a task under familiar conditions of uncluttered floors is not the same as handling an unfamiliar home with all its chaos. 2. Why labs can't ship robots SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is how a robot maps its surroundings and locates itself within them. Ask most academics and they'll tell you it's a solved problem. But real homes are the most chaotic spaces that exist. There are glass doors that look like open doorways, mirrors, stairs, rugs, charging cables, and Legos placed all around. So ask yourself: if indoor mapping and navigation is "solved," where are the robots? Why aren't airports, hotels and grocery stores full of them? Calling it “solved” misses the question families actually care about: can I leave this thing alone and trust it? 3. Why we started with eyes, not hands Nature doesn't give birth to a fully working human. We took our cue from how nature develops humans: capabilities built on one another. Children learn to see before they learn to grab, and to grab before they learn to plan and handle the unexpected. Perception comes first. Manipulation follows. More complex responsibilities come after that. At every stage, the robot must earn the next job by doing its current one well enough. Before asking a robot to pick up a sock, we wanted it to understand where it was, where the sock was, and how to reach it. Most of the industry started at the top, with humanoids. We started at the bottom, with a robot whose job is to see and move through a home precisely with 1cm accuracy in any lighting condition. Floor cleaning gave that foundation an immediately useful job. It forced us to confront navigation, clutter, privacy and everyday reliability before reaching for more complex chores. The floor cleaner isn’t a detour from our larger ambition. It is how we’re building toward it. 4. The 99.999% rule in robotics At 90%, one in ten decisions is wrong, and a robot makes thousands in a single clean. That's the robot that bumps, gets lost, and falls down the stairs. Every extra nine is a new mountain. The failures get rarer, harder to find, and exponentially harder to fix. They barely even happen until they happen in your home. Matic's visual SLAM runs at 99.999% in 16K+ homes. We’re the ONLY unsupervised home robot at scale with pure vision-only full autonomy. If you ask us, the gap between 80% and 99.999% is where our 9 years of engineering went. We close that gap inside real homes. When Matic handles something imperfectly, it saves a short clip and keeps it on the device. It only leaves if the family chooses to share it. If they do, it gets labeled, fed back into the model, and every Matic gets smarter, including theirs. Families control what leaves their homes. We do the work of making the product better. Better robots earn trust > trust brings more homes > and more homes teach the robot more. 5. Where Matic is going next Phase one was perception and it's nearly done. Matic has covered 500 million square feet, 400K miles in thousands of real lived-in homes. Now phase two is going to be about manipulation. And our idea is to build a robot that doesn't just move through your home, but acts in it to eliminate even more chores. Each step must be useful today, not justified by something we promise tomorrow. The evolution of Matic is the revolution. The goal isn’t to put the most impressive humanoid in your living room. It’s giving your family time and energy back through robots that earn your trust, protect your privacy, and help without becoming another responsibility. More time for each other. Less work getting in the way. That’s Matic. Get yours today at maticrobots.com

@lucasbagnocvaz

The possibilities

We’ve added a few stops: Boston, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh-Durham, Tallinn, Riga, Istanbul, Athens, and London. Who else should we come see?

Tom Baron @tombaron

a month ago

Atlas World Tour We are hitting the road to spend time with our partners who are building the future of robotics and autonomy, in the places they call home. Our stops are below. If you’re in or around one of these cities, reply or DM us. We’d love to meet you.

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@nunzi46 @jcriss_1 we got you @jcriss_1! Production is rippin’ now