[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @JacklouisP Jack 🤖 Jack 🤖 posts on X about what is, 1x, virginia tech, $6753t the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::950456353/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +118% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +4,215% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +1,126% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::950456353/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +469% - X Year XXX +109% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::950456353/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +13% - X Month XXXXXX +18% - X Months XXXXXX +268% - X Year XXXXXX +473% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::950456353/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) **Social topic influence** [what is](/topic/what-is), [1x](/topic/1x), [virginia tech](/topic/virginia-tech), [$6753t](/topic/$6753t), [if you](/topic/if-you), [mega](/topic/mega), [scott](/topic/scott), [sun](/topic/sun), [cnc](/topic/cnc), [stack](/topic/stack) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@goingballistic5](/creator/undefined) [@imsystemsnl](/creator/undefined) [@bostondynamics](/creator/undefined) [@lukasmziegler](/creator/undefined) [@roboticssummit](/creator/undefined) [@agilityrobotics](/creator/undefined) [@ilirai](/creator/undefined) [@chrisjpaxton](/creator/undefined) [@figurerobot](/creator/undefined) [@adcockbrett](/creator/undefined) [@ericjang11](/creator/undefined) [@murtynag](/creator/undefined) [@dwarkeshsp](/creator/undefined) [@scobleizer](/creator/undefined) [@googledeepmind](/creator/undefined) [@clonerobotics](/creator/undefined) [@wildiris19](/creator/undefined) [@emileandhisbots](/creator/undefined) [@colossusreview](/creator/undefined) [@lovejuggernaut](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "🤖 Ever notice how similar Autostore and Ocado robots look There's a story to be told here. AutoStore (Norwegian warehouse robotics pioneer) sued Ocado (UK grocery tech) in 2020 for stealing their robot designs. Seemed straightforward - Ocado was an AutoStore customer who got access to proprietary tech and then launched a near-identical product. The problem: Courts found AutoStore's key patents were invalid because they had shared detailed technical information about their robot technology in business dealings before filing for patents - making it "prior art" that destroyed their patent" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1950526916290920836) 2025-07-30T12:00Z 11.4K followers, 22.9K engagements "Should humanoids have tails Current legged robots struggle with center of mass control and quick stabilization. Adding more DOF to legs gets complicated fast. Nature already solved this: Cheetahs kangaroos dinosaurs they use tails for dynamic balance sharp turns and recovery from unexpected shifts. The robotics insight Let the tail handle it. Virginia Tech built serpentine tails that compensate in real-time so bipeds and quadrupeds can handle ledges lateral shifts and turns without rewriting their entire gait. Simple solution. Obvious in hindsight. 🦖🤖" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1981767722150330574) 2025-10-24T17:00Z 11.4K followers, 280.1K engagements "Humanoids = stacked actuators. Pure and simple. If you don't understand actuators you don't understand robots. Actuators are not solved: too heavy too hot too inefficient. This is a mega thread on actuator design for humanoid robots directly from the mind of @GoingBallistic5 Bookmark it for later 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1998399183691428212) 2025-12-09T14:27Z 11.4K followers, 238.5K engagements "This thread is based on a masterclass by Scott. Scott founded Visual Components a simulation software that required him to reverse-engineer virtually every industrial robot ever built. He's spent decades inside the mechanical guts of robots. He knows what works what fails and why" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1998399202209227174) 2025-12-09T14:27Z 11.4K followers, 10.8K engagements "PLANETARY GEARS The oldest reducer design. Thousands of years old. Sun gear (centre) + planet gears + ring gear = speed reduction. Pros: Simple proven high-volume manufacturing Good durability and overload capacity Cons: Some backlash Volumetric density challenges The twist Everyone abandoned them. Now everyone's returning" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1998399587082764793) 2025-12-09T14:29Z 11.4K followers, 4357 engagements "5-axis CNC machining but different. Most 5-axis machines use serial kinematics: stack a rotary A-axis on top of a rotary B-axis mount that on linear X/Y/Z stages. Each axis carries the weight of everything after it. Heavy and slow. 🤖 The Sprint Z3 uses parallel kinematics: three linear drives working together to create BOTH the Z-axis motion AND the A/B tilt simultaneously. No stacked rotary joints. No heavy tilting head carrying a motor on top of another motor. The entire barrel-shaped headstock moves as one unit vertically in the column while the three internal drives handle the spindle" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1984681961974300732) 2025-11-01T18:00Z 11.4K followers, 122.1K engagements "This captures robotics today: Robotics has been VC's favorite way to lose money. XX cents returned for $X. "This time its different."" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1986022429718667679) 2025-11-05T10:47Z 11.4K followers, 1900 engagements "@lukas_m_ziegler Fun fact my first engineering job was at Renishaw. My friends called it Reni-bore. Its actually got quite a cool history - Ill do a thread on it at some point" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1994528842674049254) 2025-11-28T22:08Z 11.4K followers, 2030 engagements "Welding robots. The original use case for industrial automationfirst deployed in the 1960s at GM. XX years later they dominate automotive body shops. Hundreds of robots in perfect sync laying thousands of spot welds per vehicle. But step outside high-volume production and they're rare. Most fab shops still weld by hand. Why Every new part needs skilled programming. Path planning. Torch angle. Travel speed. Wire feed. Gas flow. All tuned for each weld on each component. The economics only work if you're making thousands of the same thing. High-volume Solved. High-mix low-volume Traditional" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1994753315708838133) 2025-11-29T13:00Z 11.4K followers, 78.7K engagements "The vibratory bowl feeder. Patented in 1950. Here is the physics behind this ubiquitous tool. It solves a universal factory problem: you have a bin of randomly oriented parts and need them single-file perfectly aligned feeding into the next machine. No vision. No sensors. No code. Just physics. The bowl vibrates with an asymmetric waveform - part vertical part rotational. During the slow phase static friction grips the part. During the fast phase the part slips or micro-jumps. Net result: parts climb the spiral. At the top geometry takes over. Slots ledges and narrowing tracks are machined" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1995780063506432499) 2025-12-02T09:00Z 11.4K followers, 380.1K engagements "What does zero backlash mean Robots need gearboxes. Motors spin fast with low torque. Joints need slow speed with high torque. Gears make the trade. But standard gears have a problem: backlash. What is backlash Gear teeth don't fit perfectly tight. When you reverse direction the driving gear rotates through this gap before contacting the driven gear. The input moves. The output doesn'tuntil the gap closes. Why is this a problem Position accuracy: The encoder says position X. The output shaft is at X backlash error. You don't actually know where you are. Repeatability: Every direction change" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1996308489233379598) 2025-12-03T20:00Z 11.4K followers, 37K engagements "Traditional factory automation follows three rules: X. Minimise degrees of freedom X. Minimise actuation X. Minimise the requirement for feedback Let geometry and gravity do the hard work. This is a step feeder. Reciprocating plates push parts upward one step at a time. Parts that sit stable on the ledge rise to the top. Parts that don't They tip off and fall back into the hopper. A chain conveyor carries the parts along and a simple tool knocks off any that are misaligned. No robot. No vision. No gripper. Just continuous circulation until every part finds its perfect orientation. Bowl" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1996565323290759624) 2025-12-04T13:00Z 11.4K followers, 468.3K engagements "Is this Poka Yoke or just good tooling design" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1996776631713910848) 2025-12-05T03:00Z 11.4K followers, 232.7K engagements "WHAT IS AN ACTUATOR An actuator is a fancy name for a motor. Three components: Motor (stator + rotor) generates rotation Reducer/transmission slows output multiplies torque Electronics controls position If any layer is weak the whole system suffers" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1998399218185379877) 2025-12-09T14:27Z 11.4K followers, 9415 engagements "HARMONIC/STRAIN WAVE DRIVES The industry darling for robotics. An elliptical "wave generator" deforms a flexible spline against an outer ring. The tooth count differential creates a massive reduction. 50:1 to 100:1 ratios in a compact space. "Zero backlash." Sounds perfect. It's not" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1998399698718323170) 2025-12-09T14:29Z 11.4K followers, 4149 engagements "THE TENDON QUESTION Tendons are notoriously finicky. Most roboticists who tried them gave up. But that was XX years ago. Before modern neural nets new materials advanced control theory. Is 1X persistent or stubborn "Persistent people succeed. Stubborn people fail. The difference is whether it works."" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1998400205008650602) 2025-12-09T14:31Z 11.4K followers, 3037 engagements "CLONE'S HYDRAULIC BET Different gamble entirely. Most companies: electric motor + gearbox. Clone: hydraulic actuation. Both 1X and Clone are "not sailing with the fleet." Contrarians might be wrong. Or they leapfrog everyone. That's what makes this era interesting" [X Link](https://x.com/JacklouisP/status/1998400271802871913) 2025-12-09T14:32Z 11.4K followers, 3116 engagements
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@JacklouisP Jack 🤖
Jack 🤖 posts on X about what is, 1x, virginia tech, $6753t the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +118%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +4,215%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +1,126%
Mentions: XX #
- X Month XX -XX%
- X Months XXX +469%
- X Year XXX +109%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +13%
- X Month XXXXXX +18%
- X Months XXXXXX +268%
- X Year XXXXXX +473%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence finance
Social topic influence what is, 1x, virginia tech, $6753t, if you, mega, scott, sun, cnc, stack
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @goingballistic5 @imsystemsnl @bostondynamics @lukasmziegler @roboticssummit @agilityrobotics @ilirai @chrisjpaxton @figurerobot @adcockbrett @ericjang11 @murtynag @dwarkeshsp @scobleizer @googledeepmind @clonerobotics @wildiris19 @emileandhisbots @colossusreview @lovejuggernaut
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"🤖 Ever notice how similar Autostore and Ocado robots look There's a story to be told here. AutoStore (Norwegian warehouse robotics pioneer) sued Ocado (UK grocery tech) in 2020 for stealing their robot designs. Seemed straightforward - Ocado was an AutoStore customer who got access to proprietary tech and then launched a near-identical product. The problem: Courts found AutoStore's key patents were invalid because they had shared detailed technical information about their robot technology in business dealings before filing for patents - making it "prior art" that destroyed their patent"
X Link 2025-07-30T12:00Z 11.4K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Should humanoids have tails Current legged robots struggle with center of mass control and quick stabilization. Adding more DOF to legs gets complicated fast. Nature already solved this: Cheetahs kangaroos dinosaurs they use tails for dynamic balance sharp turns and recovery from unexpected shifts. The robotics insight Let the tail handle it. Virginia Tech built serpentine tails that compensate in real-time so bipeds and quadrupeds can handle ledges lateral shifts and turns without rewriting their entire gait. Simple solution. Obvious in hindsight. 🦖🤖"
X Link 2025-10-24T17:00Z 11.4K followers, 280.1K engagements
"Humanoids = stacked actuators. Pure and simple. If you don't understand actuators you don't understand robots. Actuators are not solved: too heavy too hot too inefficient. This is a mega thread on actuator design for humanoid robots directly from the mind of @GoingBallistic5 Bookmark it for later 👇"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:27Z 11.4K followers, 238.5K engagements
"This thread is based on a masterclass by Scott. Scott founded Visual Components a simulation software that required him to reverse-engineer virtually every industrial robot ever built. He's spent decades inside the mechanical guts of robots. He knows what works what fails and why"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:27Z 11.4K followers, 10.8K engagements
"PLANETARY GEARS The oldest reducer design. Thousands of years old. Sun gear (centre) + planet gears + ring gear = speed reduction. Pros: Simple proven high-volume manufacturing Good durability and overload capacity Cons: Some backlash Volumetric density challenges The twist Everyone abandoned them. Now everyone's returning"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:29Z 11.4K followers, 4357 engagements
"5-axis CNC machining but different. Most 5-axis machines use serial kinematics: stack a rotary A-axis on top of a rotary B-axis mount that on linear X/Y/Z stages. Each axis carries the weight of everything after it. Heavy and slow. 🤖 The Sprint Z3 uses parallel kinematics: three linear drives working together to create BOTH the Z-axis motion AND the A/B tilt simultaneously. No stacked rotary joints. No heavy tilting head carrying a motor on top of another motor. The entire barrel-shaped headstock moves as one unit vertically in the column while the three internal drives handle the spindle"
X Link 2025-11-01T18:00Z 11.4K followers, 122.1K engagements
"This captures robotics today: Robotics has been VC's favorite way to lose money. XX cents returned for $X. "This time its different.""
X Link 2025-11-05T10:47Z 11.4K followers, 1900 engagements
"@lukas_m_ziegler Fun fact my first engineering job was at Renishaw. My friends called it Reni-bore. Its actually got quite a cool history - Ill do a thread on it at some point"
X Link 2025-11-28T22:08Z 11.4K followers, 2030 engagements
"Welding robots. The original use case for industrial automationfirst deployed in the 1960s at GM. XX years later they dominate automotive body shops. Hundreds of robots in perfect sync laying thousands of spot welds per vehicle. But step outside high-volume production and they're rare. Most fab shops still weld by hand. Why Every new part needs skilled programming. Path planning. Torch angle. Travel speed. Wire feed. Gas flow. All tuned for each weld on each component. The economics only work if you're making thousands of the same thing. High-volume Solved. High-mix low-volume Traditional"
X Link 2025-11-29T13:00Z 11.4K followers, 78.7K engagements
"The vibratory bowl feeder. Patented in 1950. Here is the physics behind this ubiquitous tool. It solves a universal factory problem: you have a bin of randomly oriented parts and need them single-file perfectly aligned feeding into the next machine. No vision. No sensors. No code. Just physics. The bowl vibrates with an asymmetric waveform - part vertical part rotational. During the slow phase static friction grips the part. During the fast phase the part slips or micro-jumps. Net result: parts climb the spiral. At the top geometry takes over. Slots ledges and narrowing tracks are machined"
X Link 2025-12-02T09:00Z 11.4K followers, 380.1K engagements
"What does zero backlash mean Robots need gearboxes. Motors spin fast with low torque. Joints need slow speed with high torque. Gears make the trade. But standard gears have a problem: backlash. What is backlash Gear teeth don't fit perfectly tight. When you reverse direction the driving gear rotates through this gap before contacting the driven gear. The input moves. The output doesn'tuntil the gap closes. Why is this a problem Position accuracy: The encoder says position X. The output shaft is at X backlash error. You don't actually know where you are. Repeatability: Every direction change"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:00Z 11.4K followers, 37K engagements
"Traditional factory automation follows three rules: X. Minimise degrees of freedom X. Minimise actuation X. Minimise the requirement for feedback Let geometry and gravity do the hard work. This is a step feeder. Reciprocating plates push parts upward one step at a time. Parts that sit stable on the ledge rise to the top. Parts that don't They tip off and fall back into the hopper. A chain conveyor carries the parts along and a simple tool knocks off any that are misaligned. No robot. No vision. No gripper. Just continuous circulation until every part finds its perfect orientation. Bowl"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:00Z 11.4K followers, 468.3K engagements
"Is this Poka Yoke or just good tooling design"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:00Z 11.4K followers, 232.7K engagements
"WHAT IS AN ACTUATOR An actuator is a fancy name for a motor. Three components: Motor (stator + rotor) generates rotation Reducer/transmission slows output multiplies torque Electronics controls position If any layer is weak the whole system suffers"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:27Z 11.4K followers, 9415 engagements
"HARMONIC/STRAIN WAVE DRIVES The industry darling for robotics. An elliptical "wave generator" deforms a flexible spline against an outer ring. The tooth count differential creates a massive reduction. 50:1 to 100:1 ratios in a compact space. "Zero backlash." Sounds perfect. It's not"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:29Z 11.4K followers, 4149 engagements
"THE TENDON QUESTION Tendons are notoriously finicky. Most roboticists who tried them gave up. But that was XX years ago. Before modern neural nets new materials advanced control theory. Is 1X persistent or stubborn "Persistent people succeed. Stubborn people fail. The difference is whether it works.""
X Link 2025-12-09T14:31Z 11.4K followers, 3037 engagements
"CLONE'S HYDRAULIC BET Different gamble entirely. Most companies: electric motor + gearbox. Clone: hydraulic actuation. Both 1X and Clone are "not sailing with the fleet." Contrarians might be wrong. Or they leapfrog everyone. That's what makes this era interesting"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:32Z 11.4K followers, 3116 engagements