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Founder @ Figure ($750M Backed), Cover (Weapon Detection), Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR), Vettery ($100M Exit)
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We’re hiring like crazy, come join us to ship millions of humanoid robots to the world
www.figure.ai/careers
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What's next?
The team is heads-down designing Generation 2 of the imaging system. We hope to have this complete and validated in 2025
We’ll then begin alpha testing with local schools in California
We’re pushing - this can't come soon enough; every week kids are dying
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Technology, Generation 2
Design is currently underway for our 2nd generation system, and it's a radical upgrade:
> Cheaper per unit
> Increased field of view
> Enhanced AI detections
> Improved penetration through clothes/bags
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Technology, Generation 1
Our first-generation system was completed this summer and is now operating daily in our lab
Real guns are used for training data and to test our in-house AI object detector
Our system is capable of detecting weapons through clothing/bags
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Besides schools, this technology will work at any public venue:
> Stadiums
> Churches
> Hospitals
> Airports
And It’s not just weapons, it can also checks for explosives
In the long run, I believe most major venues will have weapon imaging systems like this
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Why are we doing this?
School shootings are up ~10x from a decade ago - it's a problem that's getting significantly worse
I believe our solution at Cover can help to prevent these at scale (majority of shootings are unplanned)
This always shocks me, K-12 school shootings since 1966:
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Cover has licensed intellectual property from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory related to high frequency terahertz imaging
Other updates:
> Team is 12 people, mostly engineering
> Offices in Bay Area & Pasadena
> Fully self funded; I’m my own VC
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Company Overview:
Cover is designing concealed weapon detection imaging scanners, similar to airport scanners, but with 10x higher frequencies and up to 4-meter stand-off distances
It’s as safe for human bodies as home Wi-Fi
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Link to the article: seekingalpha.com/article/474...