After a year of building, I'm excited to introduce the world to Parallax Worlds. While robots bring immense ROI for automating hazardous and repetitive tasks, their reliability remains a critical challenge. Factory robots fail every 87 minutes on average, costing $1000s/min.

Getting interviewed by @Scobleizer was not on my bingo card this year! Proud of all the work that the team has been doing at Parallax. We’re hiring a Robotics Researcher and Backend Engineer. DMs are open!

Excited to see the research frontier build on Gaussian Splatting + Physics Engines as well! We've been big believers in this approach at Parallax, our website has a similar demo right on the landing page ( https://t.co/WF5yirRzP4) If you want to build enterprise grade simulations

We've had an overwhelming response to our Robotics Happy Hour for @Techweek_ today at 4 PM, with almost 400 requests to attend. We're bringing together a curated mix of top startups and investors shaping the future of robotics and AI. Our guest list includes engineers and

If you have a video model that can truly generate realistic physics, you can solve autonomy for the trillion dollar manufacturing economy. Can we please try that out before we make social media apps again? Or give us access and we'll do it!

After 9 months of putting this together, I'm excited to finally share a project that I've wanted to exist for years now: The State of Adventure Capital

So the “Scale AI for robotics” is just Scale AI? What happens now 😂

Can attest, incredible work.

(2/2) Side by side before & after of IsaacSim alone and ParallaxSim. This is really important because: - We can now eval perception-based algorithms in sim - We can eval robots in exactly their factory without having to build CAD models of the whole factory

One of my favorite examples of customers using Parallax is @BotBuilt_ & @cbames. BotBuilt is making robots to build homes and we brought their factory in NC into simulation with just a 20 minute video. (1/2) Parallax Sim that uses Gaussian Splats + Physics Engine (IsaacSim here)

Website and demos:

Are you going to be at @foxglove Actuate next week? If so, come say hi, Parallax Worlds is excited to sponsor! We convert any space into a fully physics-enabled simulation environments for your robots to test & train in. We're also hiring across robotics, ML, & infra roles!

Given how much manual effort it takes, it's not surprising that most companies don't use sim at all or have 1-2 environments in which they test. At Parallax, we're building a product where we answer yes to every single question in the thread! Reach out if this sounds interesting

Congratulations, after all this you have set up one sim environment! Two issues to scale: - Defining and creating test cases is very manual -- Can we use agents+diffusion? - Need infrastructure to run them, aggregate metrics & logs -- can we build cloud infrastructure for this?

I now need to add my robot. Which brings us to 3: estimate friction, damping, stiffness for every joint of the robot and end effectors. People usually guess these values or use whatever "looks correct". Can we use System ID or newer methods to automatically estimate them?

1: We need CAD models for literally every single thing in the sim. Can we replace the background and every single object with Gaussian Splats? 2: Where do the objects go? Need the pose, mass, inertia, friction of all these objects. Can we estimate with agents?

One domain within robotics that I think is underrated with respect to how much modern AI can impact it is simulation. If agents / reasoning models are helping replace manual labor, there is so much that goes into running a sim that goes unnoticed: (thread)

🎉 Excited to share that our review paper on learning-based dynamics models for robotic manipulation is finally out in Science Robotics @SciRobotics! 🤖 Led by my former mentee @BoAi0110, this paper is especially meaningful to me. It builds on the structure of my PhD thesis and

the 10x activities can look like setbacks in hustle culture: - time with family - investing in real relationships - self care (exercise, hobbies) these are the highest ROI compounding moves.