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ai, devtools, robotics, China | eng #15 @Meta | 2x founder/exit | investor in @Bsky | advisor @Cline linkedin.com/in/phil-fung
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great way to not burn bridges

Unitree G1 practicing for the Beijing humanoid half marathon on April 19th Credit: Irving Chen from Unitree

better context -> better code

New overhead cam checked into official SO-100 arm repo! Designed by Conor McGartoll w/ lil R&D from me. Advantages: 1. No more guesswork in overhead cam placement 2. Share training data between SO-100s instances 3. Works with both bi-manual and single arm setup github.com/TheRobotStud...

Huggingface buys Pollen Robotics and plans to sell its Reachy 2 humanoids: techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/h...

big congrats to Huggingface @hf.co acquiring Pollen Robotics! HF has done a great job stewarding open-source robotics and now will have humanoid hardware to go with it!

"personal shopping service." Credit: www.tiktok.com/@gonest_lily...

a versatile soft robot gripper that i found on AliExpress

An overnight de-facto embargo on China will absolutely devastate robotics in the near term

HB @LeRobotHF! Thanks for providing a pathway for many (incl. myself) to delve into robotics.

homemade replica by 6Jiro x.com/6jiro1

today's Cline 3.10 release automates your sessioned browser. Post to Bsky, straight from VSCode!

Too many AI papers are published today, leading to overlooked gems and overhyped duds. Companies should have new roles for dedicated "External Research Engineers" whose only job is to read and implement papers to see which ones are worth pursuing.

Leg from HopeJr - an open source, low-cost, child-size humanoid. Designed by Rob Knight, maker of the popular SO-100 arm.

In robot imitation learning, perf degrades greatly with small changes in environment and lighting. RoboEngine augments your dataset with auto-generated, realistic backgrounds! roboengine.github.io

i'm sort of an "expert" at epoxy flooring for startup offices. Below was for my last startup Kit, we did like 3k sq ft of metallic epoxy for a lab (still running). if you want flooring that hurts your eyes on a budget, lmk!

does anyone else constantly get mark cuban and jamelle in their feed even though you don't follow them?

robotic horse by Kawasaki 🙌🏻🙌🏻

OpenArm, an open-source, 3.5kg load robot arm from @ReazonHILab in Tokyo. Full instructions, bill of materials, urdf: cad.onshape.com/documents/b4... Unfortunately, unlike the $100 SO-100, the $2k per-arm cost puts it out of reach of most hobbyists Found thanks to @BillyZelsnack

useful patient transfer bed Credit: youtube.com/shorts/uxukm... Company: sunlion.en.made-in-china.com/product/COJa...

Mozilla releasing a new cloud email service. Waitlist: thundermail.com

Useful tool - turns any Github repo into explanatory diagram gitdiagram.com

getting to peak MCP hype. Elon will take credit soon

Conjecture: Humans cannot precisely move their hands 10 cm or apply 5N of force. Similarly, for autonomous robots, the pricey high-precision motors used in today's static robots become less important as we switch to relative measurements (i.e. move hand until touches object) vs absolute

new FB "Friends" is like 2007 FB - just friend updates. a step in the right direction

Growth idea: @bsky.app can get the AI PhD crowd here by setting up booths at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc. Can pay students to man the booth. Once that crowd is here I don't need to go back.

Most servos break not from burnout, but from hammering on the rotor during maintenance : ) , which breaks the encoder. fun vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uk7...

OpenAI adopts MCP (pioneered by Anthropic). Props to OpenAI for putting principles before pride!

leaked criteria for software candidates from SF startup recruiter Source: www.reddit.com/r/codingboot...

even meta’s *messenger* app has edit now and I want that for us

Congrats team Cline on 1M installs today! Great to see this fully open-source, bring-your-own-LLM agentic coder help so many in the last few months. Onwards!

EngineAI's robots are getting crazier, love it! youtube.com/@engineairobot www.engineai.com.cn

latest from Boston Dynamics

made some updates to my open-source Perplexity-like app. philfung.github.io/perplexed

Claude 3.7 the most popular model by far on Cline. This matches my own usage, it's just a better model.

if you don't get on bluesky then the earth will start shaking

Install the Blender MCP server in Cline for text-to-model capability.