Comparing 3d-printed gears: cycloidal v belt drive v planetary Tldr 1. use belts 2. greasing / lube makes big difference youtu.be/9CDH4NMT_Pc?...

HUGE: Google Colab can now run inside VS Code. Which means you can: - run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode - use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook. Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.

Oh we are cooked aren't we

Meta Ray-Ban Display + Neural Band available starting today, $799

robots which can adapt even when some limbs/motors fail. skild.ai

Grout is a complete scam. If your shower didn't have tiny tiles, then there would be no shower cleaners, no sealants, no chalking, no mildew. Entire sections in Home Depot gone, all co's run by Big Grout.

moonwalking policy trained w/ reinforcement learning DRCD lab, Korea dynamicrobot.kaist.ac.kr

Ray Bans w/ beautiful display controlled by moving fingers. $799 — avail Sept 30th. Welcome to the future about.fb.com/news/2025/09...

Penpot is like Figma but free (to generous limits) OR self-hosted. I've used it for ~2 days and its quite good. penpot.app

High schoolers wear the same gigantic jeans that I wore in high school. Grateful but also a bit sad to have lived a full fashion cycle.

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Big congrats to @cline.bot on their $32M Series A raise! 2.7M devs strong and a great open-source product that doesn't degrade inference for their bottom line. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Director / VP dynamic

I'm obsessed w/ robots that can do real-world tasks reliably (vs general intelligence), and created this repo to track papers that have progressed here. github.com/philfung/awe... Please feel free to PR with your research!

Committed "one-piece" uvc camera mount, updated for SO-101 arm. Simply unscrew the jaw & replace. GitHub: github.com/TheRobotStud... Thanks to LeRobot team for reviewing!

The new LeRobot arm calibration for SO-101 is so sick - just wiggle the joints. ∞ times better than SO-100. Props to team for innovative solution.

Iron Man time! "OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Chinese firefighter robot Cred: m.weibo.cn/detail/51806...

he's here!

Grok 3 free on Cline for the next 2 weeks. I've been pleasantly surprised with it.

Top 50 Large Language Model (LLM) Interview Questions by Hao Hoang drive.google.com/file/d/1wolN...

quite robust terrain navigation! from ETH Zurich paper "Parkour in the Wild" arxiv.org/abs/2505.11164

Disney's papers always have great dancing.. la.disneyresearch.com/publication/...

Interesting 2-wheeler from China's Northeastern University "TDT" lab. Feels like something out of a Transformers movie. Cred: m.weibo.cn/detail/51710...

$50M ARR from robodogs

I checked in 'Eye of Sauron' into @LeRobot SO-101 repo. Very useful fixed/pre-calibrated camera view for sharing data between runs and other robot arms. Instructions: github.com/TheRobotStud... Thanks @cmcgartoll for original design and @pepijn2233 for considering/reviewing.

don't sleep on Cline

Google's new UI designer chatbot Stitch is interesting. I was able to design a little app workflow with it and talk back and forth to improve it. stitch.withgoogle.com

Pedro Pascowl

Fantastic new app - Listen to AI podcasts of your PDFs/papers/articles on the go. Also, written in Flutter!

GH Copilot is open-sourced code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/0...

McKinsey says focus your career on one of these 18 fields.

advice for designers in the era of vibe coding

BD-X droids from Disney Research at Galaxy's Edge in Anaheim. Cred: x.com/i/status/192...

Great summary to level-up your AI coding: 1. Planning before Acting 2. Context Window management 3. Rules files 4. Memory Bank pattern 5. Model choice x.com/cline/status...

A business A/B tested identical China-made vs US-made shower heads (latter 2× more expensive but promoted as "US-made"). The result after 2 weeks: 584 China sales, 0 US sales.

My thoughts on why LLMs won't replace junior programmers - they simply don't do the same thing. LLMs are better positioned as productivity multipliers for all engineers rather than replacements for any specific role.

Leaked "Material Expressive" design for Android is pretty neat. Google: "expressive designs are easier to use,” and helped users “quickly spot the key action on each screen and navigate more quickly.” Leaked post: web.archive.org/web/20250501...

nice obj detector - YOLO 11 but free, Apache license, faster, more accurate, runs on budget 12GB card. github.com/Peterande/D-...

Word of the year is either "vibe coding' or "tariffs"

new @huggingface SO arm is out!! - smoother teleop with new motors - faster assembly github.com/TheRobotStud...

Grand opening of California's first robot store today! You can test / buy Unitree dogs and humanoids there. Was a fun visit! Toborlife - 1090 Independence Ave, Mountain View, CA (behind Costco 😊)

Not sure why Nvidia hardware is so good but their software is so hard to use. * Simulation tools super slow w/o a $5k+ workstation * All apps are tied together in an awkward/slow Omniverse interface (reminds me of Adobe CC) * Documentation constantly out of date.

1st demo of XPeng's IRON robot at Shanghai Auto Show today. Skinnier compared to American counterpart Optimus 🦴 Credit: Shanghai Eye youtube.com/@ShanghaiEye...

first our groceries, now our robot arms 😔

Robot demos can be misleading - outtakes from iShowSpeed's EngineAI visit in Guangzhou. They even had a dance prepared for malfunctions.

Cline can do a UI review of your website.

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