Vikash Kumar
@Vikashplus
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Building Human-embodied Intelligence. CEO @MyoLabAI, Ad. Prof. @CMU_Robotic | Sr. research scientist @OpenAI @GoogleAI @AIatMeta | @berkeley_ai @UWcse #MuJoCo
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Joined February 2016
📢Life is a sequence of bets – and I’ve picked my next: @MyolabAI It’s incredibly ambitious, comes with high risk, & carries unbounded potential. But it’s a version of the #future I deeply believe in. I believe: ➡️AI will align strongly with humanity - coz it maximizes its own
myolab.ai
Building Human-Embodied Intelligence to Empower Humans.
All forms of intelligence co-emerged with a body, except AI We're building a #future where AI evolves as your lifelike digital twin to assist your needs across health, sports, daily life, creativity, & beyond... https://t.co/QL3o9YxZYz ➡️ Preview your first #HumanEmbodiedAI
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Every robotics company is flaunting their hardware🦿in the robotics arena. This is a game of capabilities, robustness, & operations. Get it right fellas or you’ll be toast soon.
Hello, world. IRON is on track for mass production — bringing us closer to large-scale humanoid manufacturing by 2026. IRON is not just a machine, but a companion built with purpose. A new chapter of intelligence begins. $XPEV
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Not just robots, now we can simulate a whole city around them!🌇 From its first version in 2008 simulating our dexterous hands; to now serving worldwide robotics ecosystem!! Extremely lucky & humbled to have been a part of the founding team of this category defining project 😇
MuJoCo now supports sleeping islands! https://t.co/LWqZ0dRGQn
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Incredibly excited to have the opportunity to organize one of the most unique conferences of all times — #SIMBODIES
🚨 Applications closing soon! Don’t miss your chance to join our SimBodies conference exploring computational simulation of whole-organism biomechanical body models. #CompNeuro 🛏️ Hotel & meals covered ✈️ Travel support available Apply by Nov 21 ➡️ https://t.co/DnVyd3F47b
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I’m worried a bit that @BostonDynamics and @OpenAI story is about to repeat in robotics. The moat of being the first is not that big. Distribution & Adoption will decide the winners.
TL;DR: The Chinese are building programmable robots at scale already, and are looking for distributors to help them get the robots ready for specific tasks. They sacrifice some of the upside and share some of the risk. They wish to sell the robot to distributors, today. The
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I’m worried a bit that @BostonDynamics and @OpenAI story is about to repeat in robotics. The moat of being the first is not that big. Distribution & Adoption will decide the winners.
TL;DR: The Chinese are building programmable robots at scale already, and are looking for distributors to help them get the robots ready for specific tasks. They sacrifice some of the upside and share some of the risk. They wish to sell the robot to distributors, today. The
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Most miss that LOCOMOTION motion imitation policies are blind - y hat’s motor control, but without reasoning. The next frontier is to couple them with high level reasoning models for long term tasks The ultimate frontier — whole body MANIPULATION !! 👌🤏🤌
So, AI video -> GVHMR -> sim2real motion tracking works, btw This is a very tricky and dynamic motion that was trained on a video I generated on @fal using Google Veo 3.1 Fast You can literally do prompt -> robot motion now, this is crazy lol
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Not just Europe, India has a fair share of the same symptoms. We simply outsource Brains to build things outside India. 🧠 A bit of it is changing with times. There is a huge wave of startups building in the application layer. Not quite Silicon Valley, but the scale and the
Europe Builds. Others Profit. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is the perfect case study. It reflects both Europe’s brilliance and its chronic inability to turn that brilliance into business. Almost everything that made 3DGS possible was born in Europe. From the early breakthroughs
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Every move is nostalgic. This is @MyolabAI 3rd This space hosted our debates, wins, losses, early mornings, late evenings, launches, releases, bugs, hires, fires, visits, demos, & most importantly the memories we gathered together as a team building something ambitious w/
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There are times when a simple idea feels like pure GOLD. Reminds me of Microsoft surface, but with a clear purpose. Kudos!
Introducing Board – the first ever face-to-face gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games into one beautiful new platform. Available today!! https://t.co/yK0QjdzbSc
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Unitree is on a roll this year. It’s going to be a crazy IPO 🤑
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⛳️A new flag has been planted on the robotics timeline 💪20k price-point, teleOp to mitigate gaps. 🤔Privacy, safety, unit-economics, maintenance -- challenges remain BUT lets break ground. Kudos to the whole @1x_tech team
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Comment/DM if you are a simulation expert looking for job opportunities in the rapidly evolving humanoid space. Talent is rare; I get too many requests for recommendations. Would love to connect both ends.
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My digital-twin at times gives me the "MOM treatment" -- caring about every aspect of my life, while yelling how I do not share enough with her🤣 PS: working on reducing belly fat with @MyolabAI
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Here is why we should be cautiously optimistic, not over optimistic. NOTE: that this is just the data gap, then comes safety, compliance, privacy, unit economics, regulations, & the top of the chart mom-test (remember the number of maids she got rid off coz it didn’t feel
Tesla - collects 4.3M hours of driving data - every day - for free - to train a 2DoF system (steering + throttle). - yet full autonomy remains unsolved. Frontier robotics startups/labs - collect or purchase 0.01M–1M hours of data - every X month - for millions of dollars - to
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Mars is a planet inhibited solely by an #ARTIFICIAL Intelligence <> @elonmusk is trying to get #BIOLOGICAL Intelligence there. Two planets on different sides of intelligence with a large void in between —- Now let this juxtaposition sync in 🛀
Curiosity Rover spotted on the surface of Mars by the orbiting MRO spacecraft. 📸: NASA/JPL/UoA
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😑Most are getting this wrong - The real unlock here is a massive large scale human tele operation (driving) that provides ACTION labels at scale. The key is action 💪, NOT state space 👀 distribution
A new 30-minute presentation from @aelluswamy, Tesla’s VP of AI, has been released, where he talks about FSD, AI and the team’s latest progress. Highlight from the presentation: • Tesla's vehicle fleet can provide 500 years of driving data every single day. Curse of
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