Lights-out Manufacturing for SMBs: AutoFAB (Autonomous Factory-in-A-Box) 3D Printer + Robotic Arms that print & assemble multi-part products autonomously.

Even large VLAs can play ping-pong in real time! 🏓⚡️ In practice, VLAs struggle with fast, dynamic tasks: • slow reactions, jittery actions. • demos often shown at 5-10× speed to look “smooth”. We introduce VLASH: • future-state-aware asynchronous inference with >30Hz

Ilya Sutskever: We are no longer in the age of scaling, we are back to the age of research

Our hand rotates a nut on a bolt at super high speed, fully in real time with no edits. This is possible because it’s fully backdrivable and torque transparent so it adapts naturally to the nut. The result is simpler, more reliable manipulation for software and learning systems.

Super cool use case of robot learning

The future of manufacturing is local, autonomous, and on-demand. Factories shrink from buildings to boxes, from teams to algorithms. With AutoFAB, everyone's an industrialist. If you run a print farm, build hardware, operate machines, or work in robotics/manufacturing, DM me.

Business model: Hardware sale/rental + AI/teleop subscription. Designed for hardware startups and medium/large print farms. Phase 1: Teleop-assisted tasks. Phase 2: Generalized autonomous assembly. Phase 3: Distributed manufacturing network. Phase 4: Self-replicating loop→∞

At launch, the AutoFABs will be human teleoperated which gradually get handed off to the AI This way we gather real-world usage data that we can use to train the best manipulation policies. Every AI robotics company out there does this quietly, we're a bit more open about it.

Why start with 3D printing? It's the fastest way to build the most valuable proprietary manipulation dataset in the world with a profitable data flywheel. Every part is data: geometry, variation, error modes, torque profiles, visual signatures. Every order makes 💸💰 everyday.

Why this matters: Manufacturing is bottlenecked by the slow pace of iteration. Software ate the world by shortening the loop from idea → prototype → product. AutoFAB brings the same loop to physical products. Build physical products as fast as software.

A factory that sits on your desk. AI and Robotics aren’t about replacing human labor. It’s about replacing dependency on human timing. Production cycles slow down because people become the blocking step. AutoFAB removes the “wait for a human” node from the production chain 🧵

They said it looked too perfect to be real. But perfection isn't fabricated—it's delicately engineered. This is the historic mass delivery of UBTECH (优必选) Walker S2. The next era of intelligent manufacturing is here. Let's build it together! #WalkerS2 #HumanoidRobots

I'd say less than 5 years for a robot to just understand that you'll be home by 9, you like steak, it needs to cook it and clean up afterwards without you ever asking it to.

"If you had secret microphones in robotics labs across the country right now you'd just be hearing 'holy shit!'" A lot of the smartest founders, engineers, and investors are investing time and money in robotics right now because they can finally see the path.

I love this. This is the future. We need one of these everywhere on earth

AutoFAB: Everyone is an Industrialist

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He who controls the spice controls the universe

@JacklouisP It is, it feels like the GPT2 moment in robots. And LLMs are hitting diminishing returns

I challenge ZEUS to a fight