Brett Adcock
@adcock_brett
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Founder @Figure_robot (AI Robots), @Cover_thz (Weapon Detection), @ArcherAviation (NYSE: ACHR), Vettery ($100M Exit)
Joined April 2015
Humanoid Robots, Flying Cars, and Weapon Detection Systems
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Somewhere, humanoid robots are learning to clean a house better than us, and soon we will be able to buy them.
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RT @chamath: On this point of new technology to stop deranged people, my friend @adcock_brett, outside of his day job, has funded a really….
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There is a small and determined team in California trying to build gun detection systems for K12 schools. We are looking for an AI Engineer to deploy deep learning models to detect weapons via 3D point cloud. Please consider applying to help save lives - job link in comment.
The school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, MN is the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025.
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Caught in the middle of a political battle, @BlackRock reaffirmed its focus is helping millions of Americans save for retirement. They warned that injecting politics from either side risks undermining financial performance.
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Millions of Ameircans depend on the security of their retirement savings to live with dignity after a lifetime of hard work. That’s why the Alliance for Prosperity and a Secure Retirement (APSR)...
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RT @adcock_brett: Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week. So, I summarized everything from Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Figure,….
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@Figure_robot That's it for this week's AI and Robotics breakdown. I share the latest research every week, so follow me @adcock_brett for more. If you found this valuable, consider a like/retweet to spread the word.
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week. So, I summarized everything from Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Figure, Cohere, Unitree, Field AI, Boston Dynamics, Deepseek, and more. Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:.
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We're hiring for BotQ, our new manufacturing division at @Figure_robot:. > Software Test Eng.> End of Line Lead.> Equipment Eng.> Technician.> Manufacturing Eng. Apply here:
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We’re bringing the humanoid to life. Join us.
Want to help us build 100,000 robots?. We're hiring for 35 roles in BotQ - our robot manufacturing division at Figure:. → Software Test Eng.→ Electrical Test Eng.→ End of Line Lead.→ Warehouse Lead.→ Equipment Eng.→ Technician.→ MFG Eng.
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IBM and NASA introduced Surya, an open-source AI to predict solar flares. Trained on 9 years of high-res imagery from NASA's SDO, it predicts solar outbursts faster than ever before and beats benchmarks by 16%.
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Researchers at Stanford debuted HEAD, an autonomous navigation and reaching system. It learns navigation, locomotion, and reaching directly from human motion and vision data, allowing humanoids to move around obstacles and touch an object if needed.
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BIG NEWS, Dragon Ball Fans!.Pre-register now and join Goku on day one!.Get exclusive launch rewards and rare items.Will you be the first to experience it?.
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Daxo Robotics demonstrated its flexible hand, where each joint is driven by multiple tendons for robust control, in a new podcast. Each hand uses 108 motors, enabling 108 actively controlled degrees of freedom and infinite passive DoF.
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South Korean company WIRobotics unveiled ALLEX, a general-purpose humanoid . Built as a modular platform, ALLEX focuses on manipulation with highly dexterous hands, with 15 degrees of freedom (DoF) across fingers and wrist. It can also lift over 30kg.
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Deepseek launched Deepseek V3.1, an updated hybrid reasoner. It reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528 and promises stronger performance in tool use and multi-step agent tasks. On SWE-Bench, it scored 66%, nearing SOTA closed models.
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀. 🧠 Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think — one model, two modes.⚡️ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528.🛠️ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and.
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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute debuted Large Behavior Models (LBMs). These policies enabled Atlas to perform multi-step tasks like folding Spot legs, rope tying, or tire manipulation, while adapting to errors in real time.
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Field AI raised $405M in funding and introduced Field Foundation Models . These models are designed to grapple with uncertainties and the physical constraints of the real world, enabling safe robot behaviors when navigating in new environments.
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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China's Unitree teased its next flagship product: a new 180 cm-tall humanoid with 31 joint DoF. It will expand the company's portfolio of bipedal robots, although the launch timeline remains unclear at this stage.
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Cohere launched Command A Reasoning, a new reasoning model for enterprises. It outperforms similar privately deployable rivals, like gpt-oss and DeepSeek R1, on agentic, deep research and safety benchmarks. Also available via Hugging Face.
Introducing Command A Reasoning, our most advanced model for enterprise reasoning tasks.
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Figure update: we have started making the walking of our humanoids more robust with the new Helix walking controller. As seen in this clip, it enabled our robot to walk across different surfaces without actually using the cameras to see what lies ahead.
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