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# ![@DustinWalper Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1420833991343570944.png) @DustinWalper Dustin Walper

Dustin Walper posts on X about $6954t, stack, china, robot the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1420833991343570944/interactions)
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- X Week XXXXXXX +59%
- X Month XXXXXXX +1,094%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +3,243%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +1,496%

### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1420833991343570944/posts_active)
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- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XX +211%
- X Months XXX +145%
- X Year XXX +21%

### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1420833991343570944/followers)
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- X Week XXXXX +9.70%
- X Month XXXXX +31%
- X Months XXXXX +205%
- X Year XXXXX +199%

### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1420833991343570944/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1420833991343570944/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [finance](/list/finance)  [currencies](/list/currencies)  [stocks](/list/stocks) 

**Social topic influence**
[$6954t](/topic/$6954t) #37, [stack](/topic/stack) #1771, [china](/topic/china), [robot](/topic/robot), [$700m](/topic/$700m), [$150m](/topic/$150m), [south korea](/topic/south-korea), [a very](/topic/a-very), [investment](/topic/investment), [over the](/topic/over-the)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1420833991343570944/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"@realKunalAShah They spent the equivalent of $700M USD building that so. probably several billion dollars to replicate something that large here. Could be done in X years though. With $150M today we could do a simpler version on XXX acres in 12-18 months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979222181402857812) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-17T16:25Z 5307 followers, XXX engagements


"@JWS_MSE Very low interest rate loans and refund guarantees on the vessels themselves. This is what South Korea does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979229632969781582) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-17T16:54Z 5301 followers, XXX engagements


"Recruiting a kick-ass team is the #1 responsibility of a startup CEO. #2 is stocking the fridge because that Coke Zero won't chill itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1976367321296802295) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-09T19:21Z 5331 followers, 1320 engagements


"This is what Ive been saying. Hanwha is a very good shipbuilder but they own a yard with limited room for expansion and the big investment theyve pledged is over the next decade. Thats why @ValstadShip is on a crash course to reinvent US shipbuilding from the bottom up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1977550365500522776) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-13T01:42Z 5331 followers, 1167 engagements


"@vincentmcasey @ValstadShip Robots not running TypeScript Thats a paddlin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979550772913430663) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-18T14:10Z 5328 followers, XX engagements


"Why yes FANUC I *do* want to pay extra for an "ASCII program loader""  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1966578769876939042) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-09-12T19:04Z 5334 followers, XXX engagements


"We're writing our own software stack. From path planning inverse kinematics and control barrier functions to custom drivers for externally controlling Fanuc robots. Already working in should be cooking on the robots very soon. PS we're hiring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1967938154385879271) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-09-16T13:06Z 5335 followers, XXX engagements


"This drives me crazy. You see it in every area of advanced manufacturing. Fanuc does some assembly in America - which is laudable - but I'm not aware of *any* American companies making heavy payload industrial robots. And by heavy payload I mean 200kg+"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1971328248404639750) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-09-25T21:37Z 5336 followers, 3159 engagements


"One small step for shipbuilding one giant leap for Valstad. Our custom software stack is now controlling the robots. Ingest CAD model generate robot instructions. Zero manual programming. We'll be open-sourcing the FANUC drivers we wrote to do this shortly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1972059210310734227) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-09-27T22:02Z 5334 followers, 22.8K engagements


"These Schunk electro-permanent magnets will soon turn the yellow FANUC into a steel-moving machine. We will lift up American shipbuilding one longitudinal stiffener at a time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1972789425039155477) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-09-29T22:23Z 5336 followers, 7815 engagements


"Apparently maglev conveyers are becoming a thing in factories. We may or may not be considering this at @ValstadShip for moving heavy plate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1975530572748296502) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-07T11:56Z 5336 followers, 20.9K engagements


"Really good analysis. Six-axis industrial arms still form the backbone of large-scale manufacturing and cobots or humanoids wont change that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1975880777624907984) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-08T11:07Z 5336 followers, 22.2K engagements


"External control of industrial robot arms is tricky. Our robotics team is deep in the weeds on FANUC's Stream Motion protocol:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1975913839154868702) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-08T13:19Z 5334 followers, 1026 engagements


"Request for startup: inventory management that ingests product manuals cross-references against parts inventory with an LLM front-end. Example: "For the flange on a FANUC R-2000iB what type of screws do I need" Response: "8 M10x16 screws - Room X Bin XX - Qty 112""  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1977439057769800074) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-12T18:19Z 5334 followers, 26.4K engagements


"One of the reasons we wont buy KUKA robots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1978072876457623745) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-14T12:18Z 5336 followers, 15.9K engagements


"The magnitude of America's shipbuilding crisis demands urgent action. Here's what we're doing right now at Valstad Shipworks: 1) Recruiting a cross-disciplinary team combining traditional maritime capabilities like naval architecture with software robotics computer vision manufacturing and controls expertise. 2) Building the machine that builds the ships starting with a custom software stack that consumes a 3D model and automatically creates instructions for our robotics platform. Our goal is end-to-end automation starting with offloading material from barge/rail/truck and covering cutting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1978147973105385675) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-14T17:16Z 5336 followers, 10.9K engagements


"This would be trivial to do with a teach pendant. the interesting thing here is that we wrote the entire software stack that does this down to the FANUC Stream Motion driver. Goal is to be able to handle any reasonable configuration without any offline programming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979338652628197851) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-18T00:08Z 5334 followers, 1826 engagements


"@Jason_A_Scharf Yep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979340079954038908) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-18T00:13Z 5334 followers, XX engagements


"America has the world's best financial markets and this can be rapidly converted into industrial capacity if the will exists. JPMorganChase's announcement today is a great signal of that will materializing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1977761934888865809) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-13T15:42Z 5336 followers, 37K engagements


"This is a highly advanced shipbuilding factory in China covering 1757 acres and producing XXX inland vessels per year. Its no exaggeration to say this is miles ahead of anything in the US - and its why our gigafactory for ships concept is so urgent. We need to accelerate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979170117738000658) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-17T12:58Z 5335 followers, 144.3K engagements


"We have more advanced manufacturing than this in the US - the Austin Gigafactory for one - but not for shipbuilding. Were going to change that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979178472359555382) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-17T13:31Z 5335 followers, 34K engagements


"be me discover cool factory simulation software look at the pretty visuals so fresh so clean get ready to buy discover they were bought by chinese company is honeypot for detailed factory plans shake head back to pysim many such cases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979552889598329091) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-18T14:19Z 5337 followers, 96.6K engagements


"First we weld than we handle then we ship ships. With uh a few steps in between"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1979336182082457804) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-17T23:58Z 5335 followers, 1967 engagements


"If it aint available on DigiKey or McMaster-Carr does it really even exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DustinWalper/status/1980369018390470688) [@DustinWalper](/creator/x/DustinWalper) 2025-10-20T20:22Z 5335 followers, 1095 engagements