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1/8 Whenever you bring up robotics, people immediately jump to Terminator. Senior executives can be worse, looking at you like some unserious sci-fi geek.
But I think robotics will transform the 21st century more profoundly than automobiles transformed the 20th.
Introducing Hugo: the first human companion robot.
At Boston Dynamics, I was Chief Strategy Officer, bringing robots into the real world.
My co-founder, Farbod Farshidian, led research at the RAI Institute.
Together, 15+ years teaching robots to run, jump, and work.
So we asked: what if robots could connect with people?
Hugo runs on the first Vision-Language-Expression (VLE) model.
He links what he sees and hears to movement, expression, and gesture.
He notices you, reads the room, and reacts in real time.
And he's only the first.
Dynamic Creatures is @BostonDynamics' official entertainment and hospitality partner.
We're building a cast of characters with film studios, resorts, and theme parks.
dynamiccreatures.com
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Strategic level: Stop trying to perfectly plan for a war you cannot yet see.
Buy lots of bullets. Guns. Ordinance - and lots and lots of parts/components that troops can use to build their own unmanned tools - from UAS to robotics.
Crazy POV, but break up the 20th century NATO structured Armies we know today. Too much institutional inertia fighting change.
Create large numbers of small units and get them honing the basics of warfighting. Field craft. Self-sustainment. Marksmanship. Resilience. Education.
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This is a very informative episode of the @schoolofwarpod with @AaronBMacLean, focussed on the trajectory of AI and its impact on military and civil professionals. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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This is clearly the path to scaling ground level 3d globally. It's wild how good LLMs are getting at making plausible 3d reconstructions of the real world.
This literally used to be an IARPA (IC world's DARPA) project a few years ago and now it's a frontier model prompt.
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They now predict that 95% of Anthropic's R&D will be fully automated by November 2027. This is what Anthropic describes as AL5, fully autonomous RSI. This would have many implications for policy, as this will eventually happen at every lab, not just Anthropic
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We're turning our lessons from defending OpenAI into practical tools for our customers. On Thursday, join us at Cyber at the Frontier, a live keynote, for our latest cyber announcements.
Working with our frontier models, we've identified and resolved important vulnerabilities in our own code and infrastructure. That experience is informing the tools and playbooks we're building to help other security teams strengthen their defenses.
@gdb shares what we've learned and why security teams should keep putting the latest models to work as capabilities improve.
Tune in on November 12 at 10 a.m. PT: openai.com/cyber-at-the-fron…
I wonder how long it will take military bases to adopt this.
Probably another 5 years. Until then, keep enjoying your 24 hour battalion duties Privates! 😆
Meet the Ring Drone Cam. A flying indoor security camera that delivers proactive wall-to-wall visibility, flying custom routes to the spots a fixed camera can't reach.
Check out the details: amazon.com/dp/B0H1PBKM3X
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Meet the Ring Drone Cam. A flying indoor security camera that delivers proactive wall-to-wall visibility, flying custom routes to the spots a fixed camera can't reach.
Check out the details: amazon.com/dp/B0H1PBKM3X
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The AI Futures Project have updated their timelines. They say we are five months ahead of AI 2027, and they now believe a Superhuman AI Researcher will arrive sometime in 2027.
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AMAZON'S $AMZN RING IS LAUNCHING A FLYING SECURITY DRONE FOR YOUR HOME AND A SECURITY ROBOT FOR BUSINESSES
- Ring Rover Cam ($999.99): a robot for businesses that patrols on its own, streams up to 4K video, and has a siren and a camera that rises above shelves and counters. Ships in the US on Dec. 16, 2026.
- Ring Drone Cam ($249.99): an indoor drone that flies set routes around your home and automatically checks things out when a Ring camera, sensor, or alarm goes off. Ships in the US on Jan. 27, 2027.
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Introducing GR00T 2: our most advanced, open System One model for robotics. It runs entirely on your robot’s onboard compute, fully untethered, and you own every weight of it. GR00T 2 features:
1. Long-horizon tasks: dexterous manipulation and whole-body control chained over 20+ steps and 5+ minutes, such as performing chemistry lab experiments or assembling model airplanes end to end.
2. X-Adapt: adapting from easy data sources (human wearables and simulation) and deploying zero-shot to diverse real robots.
3. Unified Cognition: native integrations with frontier agents for advanced physical reasoning, robust error recovery, and safety monitoring.
It's an open-source buffet! We are releasing not only the model weights and X-Adapt recipes (coming December), but also our agentic framework, simulation engine, annotation engine, hardware design, and even training data (100K hours, that's ~11 yrs of experience), all available today!
Everything that moves will be autonomous. Anyone can become a roboticist.
Lock in, build with us!
Deep dive in thread:
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Gemini Robotics 2.5 is here. 🤖
Our latest physical AI is able to learn hundreds of everyday skills - from folding laundry and serving pastries to autonomously sorting car parts on the factory floor.
Here’s a snapshot of its capabilities 🧵
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more factories, more robot welding fleets!
We just raised $300M at a $2.45B valuation in our Series E, led by Georgian!
I learned to weld at 8 years old in my family’s garage in Ohio. My dad eventually turned that garage into a manufacturing company in Warren, Ohio. I saw firsthand how difficult it was to build a manufacturing business in the US. The challenge wasn't product demand. It was production.
When Alex and I started Path, we spoke with more than 100 US manufacturers. We heard the same problem at nearly every shop: “Our backlog is growing, but our production is stagnant.”
Traditional automation wasn't built for the high-mix, high-variability, unstructured environments where so much of American manufacturing happens. We started Path to solve that problem.
Revenue is up 17x in the last 18 months, and we're stepping on the gas. That means getting our technology into the hands of more manufacturers, faster. It also means taking Obsidian beyond welding and into the rest of the production line, starting in 2027.
Thank you to our customers for believing in what's possible and partnering with us to build the future of manufacturing.
And thank you to the team at Path. Product breakthroughs, revenue growth, and market expansion are all outputs of an incredible group of people relentlessly pushing us forward.
Onward! 🚀
Full story here: lnkd.in/epaYvcWv
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AI won’t make most human skills obsolete, but it will change how they’re used.
Negotiation, problem solving, and leadership will matter more than ever as people work alongside agents and robots.
Our Skill Change Index shows which skills will be most, and least, exposed to automation in the next five years: mck.co/aiskills
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I think this is the fourth company I've seen doing virtual beings that you talk with.
Nuance is the biggest and oldest of the companies.
I've long been talking about these coming, well now it is obvious that they are here.
Questions I still have?
How expensive are these to run? How open are they to include in games, apps, websites?
I'd love to make a news bot that is fed with real-time reports from X.
I have four million posts in my databases for alignednews.com and it's quite a trip to "talk to X" with my agent, but this would be the next level.
Does this new tech interest you?
The first AI persona you’ll actually want to meet face-to-face.
Most AI personas stare blankly while you talk. Emma reacts while you’re still speaking.
After 18 months of research at @nuance_ai, this is Emma, built on Nuplex, our full-duplex audiovisual foundation model.
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General Atomics has revealed two long-range unmanned underwater vehicles, Ranger and GA-Ray, designed for surveillance, mining and strike missions.
Both can launch sub-drones and carry extensive payload modules as well as support distributed underwater operations while reducing reliance on attack submarines (SSNs).
General Atomics concept graphics show the glider-type UUV launching from Okinawa and Guam. From those bases, it could reach First Island Chain chokepoints or the littoral waters of mainland China.
Depending on the variant, the vehicles can carry 16 to 96 smaller sub-UUVs. At Euronaval 2026, the company also showed a submarine-launched quadcopter UAV.
A video of a real test shows it deploying from a tube launched by a UUV that Ranger or GA-Ray would carry.
Ranger (Extra-Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle):
— Size: 100–135 ft
— Endurance: multi-year
GA-Ray (Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle):
— Size: 22 ft
— Endurance: weeks to months
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Arthur D is a next-generation Weapon Locating Radar designed for maneuver warfare.
With a range of up to 100 km for locating 300 mm MLRS, Arthur D provides accurate weapon locating while supporting high survivability in high-intensity conflicts.
saab.com/arthur