The code runs clean. The joints don’t wait. “I feel the need… the need for speed.”

Cannot agree more!

(8/8) At @GeneralAutonomy, we’re living this reality. Every day. We’ll share what we learn as we go. And if you’re in the same fight, DM me. Let’s talk robots. P.S. This bot here recently learnt to fold boxes with as little as 20 episodes and a 2 hour training run, after 3

(7/8) So NO. You can’t hire your way to a robotics breakthrough. You build your way there. You collect your own data. You train your own models. You build your own fuckin ROBOTS! One iteration at a time. One jammed joint at a time. One unexpected failure at a time.

(6/8) If you’re not bleeding on the floor with your first 5 attempts, YOU ARE NOT CLOSE enough to the real problem.

(5/8) Most robotics startups fail not from lack of talent. But from lack of founder-level obsession with the details: - Mechanical tolerances - Cable placements - Pick rates - Feedback loops - Robot downtime - Model drift

(4/8) Hiring helps but only when the core team has been in the wilderness long enough to know what to even build! If you outsource your pain too early, you don’t learn what the robot needs. Or what the customer really wants.

(3/8) There are no shortcuts. No open-source repo that just “works.” No plug-and-play GPT that makes your arm pick a screw. You iterate, debug, wait, watch. Then do it again. And again.

(2/8) In SaaS, you can grow by scaling GTM and adding engineering headcount. In web3, you can grow by seeding a token and building community. In robotics? You grow by suffering through the build.

(1/8) You can't hire your way to win in robotics. Let me repeat that: YOU CANNOT HIRE YOUR WAY TO WIN IN ROBOTICS! 🧵👇

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@the_carlosdp 30kgs including uninstalled arms shown here. Magic of carbon fibre.

The bot grows up!

Billions of years of evolution distilled to 70 mins of demos @GeneralAutonomy

physical labor is dead! long live physical agents! @GeneralAutonomy

Software creates soft men Soft men create hard times Hard times create hard men Hard men create hardware Hardware creates good times Good times creates software

Bhishma Pitamaha!

The longest walk by an indigenously designed life size humanoid robot in India, because it is the first! 📍Somewhere in Bengaluru

Skippity-doo-dah, skippity-ay. Skip down the sidewalk on a sun-shiny day. Such happy feelings I'm feeling today. Skipping along on this very fine day!