# ![@chris_j_paxton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2244121213.png) @chris_j_paxton Chris Paxton

Chris Paxton posts on X about ai, china, if you, in the the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) 14.72%, [china](/topic/china) 4.91%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 3.68%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 3.68%, [solar](/topic/solar) 2.45%, [data](/topic/data) 2.45%, [tesla](/topic/tesla) #2021, [environment](/topic/environment) #1079, [the first](/topic/the-first) 2.45%, [how to](/topic/how-to) 2.45%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"An autonomous @rivr_tech delivery robot being tested in Pittsburgh. Snow ice hills and stairs everywhere: it was genuinely feeling dangerous as a human to go outside at times. Really a great stress test for the robots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2003910674985243016)  2025-12-24T19:28Z 29.7K followers, 1.1M engagements


"this is a big deal for a lot of robots companies and researchers. very common teleop tool. good time to follow the trends and switch to UMI/human video I guess Meta is shutting down its Quest for business program in [----] ending sales of commercial SKUs next month and reducing existing subscriptions to $0/month: https://t.co/Cdfpw1R8UF Meta is shutting down its Quest for business program in [----] ending sales of commercial SKUs next month and reducing existing subscriptions to $0/month: https://t.co/Cdfpw1R8UF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2012391878751125861)  2026-01-17T05:09Z 29.7K followers, 11.2K engagements


"This is like the most solar punk thing I have ever seen a real video of. A flying drone zooming around to drop off fresh fruit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2015798151672676512)  2026-01-26T14:45Z 29.7K followers, 182.1K engagements


"What really made coding solvable for AI was reinforcement learning + stronger base models -- crucially the fact that code is verifiable. I could see a world where in a couple years any similarly verifiable task is solved Can we extrapolate beyond that Sure with low confidence Yeah I really didnt get the AGI talk until using Claude Code. https://t.co/1ZBRBdDdA6 Yeah I really didnt get the AGI talk until using Claude Code. https://t.co/1ZBRBdDdA6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2017608361152336225)  2026-01-31T14:38Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Oh yeah the robots stable. Our whole body control is great. Push it as hard as you want (Everyone has had this happen)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2017610459164082555)  2026-01-31T14:46Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"This is the huge risk right now for AI data providers. There's actually a huge differential in effect on downstream performance and its hard to tell at a glance who is good and who isnt (because there absolutely are differences) @chrisdotai maybe a few most founders in the space don't seem to realize 1) we don't know exactly what kind of data we (will) need to help policies and it's their job to sell their product value to us 2) they signed up to chew glass for like zero margins I think most will just fold @chrisdotai maybe a few most founders in the space don't seem to realize 1) we don't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2018123111170818270)  2026-02-02T00:43Z 29.7K followers, 24.7K engagements


"Okay I desperately need to go on a trip to China it seems everyone else is doing it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2018125696560701714)  2026-02-02T00:53Z 29.7K followers, 55.9K engagements


"Sometimes it really does feel like everyone has a robotics startup but me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2018914507263807872)  2026-02-04T05:08Z 29.6K followers, [----] engagements


"My most luddite opinion is that children shouldn't be able to use social media or watch television"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019014019772797388)  2026-02-04T11:43Z 29.6K followers, [----] engagements


"90% success rate at [--] tote moves per hour is great especially given that this company is one year old But just as a note humans do 250-400 totes per hour. There are other advantages to the robot and theyre far from the only company with this issue but modern imitation-learning-based robots are SLOW Robots from @TheHumanoidAI passed real factory test at @Siemens 😮💨 Humanoid from the UK just completed a successful proof of concept with Siemens deploying their HMND [--] wheeled humanoid robot in a real working factory. The task was simple but important: pick totes from a https://t.co/UtiiltmyG8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019039375334535634)  2026-02-04T13:24Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Video models allow for broad generalization and show us a route to robots which can do anything in any home -- crucial if you want to sell a robot that can help people do their chores. Lots to learn in this discussion with @itsdanielho Things I liked: - discussion of pre and mid training for robotics and how world models make sense - evaluations using world models still have an important place-- they're data driven simulators after all - a return to discussion of zero shot robotics -- so much of the conversation today is dominated by domains with 1+ hour expert data zero shot feels like it's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019062017588343244)  2026-02-04T14:54Z 29.7K followers, 11.2K engagements


"People are literally saying things like "this is your last chance to escape the permanent underclass" I think the reason people are negative on AI is insanely obvious Theory: People are negative about AI because social/mobile kinda sucked. People were positive about social/mobile because the Web was kind of great. People were positive about the Web because computers were kind of great. People were positive about computers because Theory: People are negative about AI because social/mobile kinda sucked. People were positive about social/mobile because the Web was kind of great. People were"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019063614628331618)  2026-02-04T15:00Z 29.7K followers, 137.6K engagements


"Cool work. Arguably not a world model if you want to be pedantic. Its predicting video and actions together rather than using one to produce the other -- it feels more like video is an auxiliary objective. But a very powerful one that forces it to learn a more generic representation. And yet it still has some of the same advantages and the generalization results e.g. to the YAM arms are very impressive Introducing DreamZero 🤖🌎from @nvidia A 14B World Action Model that achieves zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks & few-shot adaptation to new robots The key Jointly predicting video &"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019115739672899835)  2026-02-04T18:28Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"There is no way anthropic does not start running ads after they go public so as good as these videos are they feel in slightly bad taste. Love these new Anthropic videos https://t.co/3P9XxbyPOK Love these new Anthropic videos https://t.co/3P9XxbyPOK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019117633631826201)  2026-02-04T18:35Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@shahyn_kamali Developers will stop loving AI once the "centaur chess" era of coding ends I promise Plenty of developers outside of Twitter are already terrified of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019121315505221855)  2026-02-04T18:50Z 29.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@kfue_ai Ive literally had the teenagers working behind the counter at the local ice cream shop in Pittsburgh see my nvidia shirt and come up to me and ask if they'll be able to get jobs when they graduate or if AI will do them all. This is not a tpot/"ai people bubble" thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019122044353524177)  2026-02-04T18:53Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@KyleMorgenstein You as a human move your eye around -- saccades - which gives you a sense of depth a fixed robot camera will not have. You absolutely would fall more imo if your eye was bolted in place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019247708461224432)  2026-02-05T03:12Z 29.6K followers, [---] engagements


"The argument that ads make a free tier long-term viable is a good one. First the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we wont do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic First the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we wont do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019301085832441985)  2026-02-05T06:44Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@ErenChenAI @AGIBOTofficial Is this true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019442802233417922)  2026-02-05T16:07Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Diligent tried to do this for 5+ years. This is actually a very difficult market -- and a hard autonomy problem. Hospitals are crowded and chaotic and things need to be done quickly and precisely. You can see theyre testing on a really easy version of the problem with all objects singulated already Humanoid Robot Enters Hospital Pharmacy🏥💊 In a hospital pharmacy in China the wheeled humanoid robot X7 from Beijing DAX Robotics is assisting pharmacists in dispensing medications. When a pharmacist receives a patient's prescription from the computer the pharmacy https://t.co/ggK239uruS Humanoid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019444021719101730)  2026-02-05T16:12Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@carlosdponx So personally I think its an interesting data point because I think theres increasing evidence that its easier to "catch up" with the right data that earlier approaches probably were doing too much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019530952582844539)  2026-02-05T21:57Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@noslugg Well much slower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019547395374420104)  2026-02-05T23:03Z 29.7K followers, 29.5K engagements


"Yeah it feels like a big deal that this works. AI iterating in the real world. Without the robotics problems- API driven experiments. We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab so it could propose experiments run them at scale learn from the results and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down by 40%. https://t.co/udKBKxnKlW We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab so it could propose experiments run them at scale learn from the results and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019552240214872343)  2026-02-05T23:22Z 29.7K followers, 14.3K engagements


"@KlemenKotar @KyleMorgenstein Yeah this is fair i think the combination of eye saccades and head motions does a ton for our spatial understanding though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019591471343759857)  2026-02-06T01:58Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenron Roboarena; https://robo-arena.github.io/ https://robo-arena.github.io/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019619010783113611)  2026-02-06T03:47Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"LReally hard to imagine anyone will be writing code in a year. 6+ hours 80% success rate working for an hour at a time. Scaling is holding. This isnt the end but you can see it from here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019623742046105849)  2026-02-06T04:06Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@kcchutes You can just follow me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019624785542803895)  2026-02-06T04:10Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"This is think is the huge limiting factor for teleop data; 1x has a good approach because at least itll be in real customer homes. Data has always been the bottleneck for physical AI in self driving and robotics. Tesla is taking two very different approaches for FSD and Optimus. Teslas Optimus Training Playbook: [--]. Build 30k Optimus Gen [--] robots [--]. Operate them in a mock environment where they can https://t.co/OLUyLfiUD0 Data has always been the bottleneck for physical AI in self driving and robotics. Tesla is taking two very different approaches for FSD and Optimus. Teslas Optimus Training"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019644151357485438)  2026-02-06T05:27Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Hot take but scaling autonomous labs is completely orthogonal to (open world) robotics even if they both use robots. Most lab tasks can be very api driven and require a lot less data driven "grounding" of symbols concepts and trajectories. Default case right now is a software only singularity we need to scale robots and automated labs dramatically in 28/29 or the physical world will fall far behind the digital one - and the US wont be competitive unless we put in the investment now (fab solar panel actuator Default case right now is a software only singularity we need to scale robots and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019646131878449288)  2026-02-06T05:35Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@fchollet The jobs will go away because of the economy they'll stay away because of AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019646435915186421)  2026-02-06T05:36Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"It's telling that you still need humans to run many procedures. Robots are hard We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab so it could propose experiments run them at scale learn from the results and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down by 40%. https://t.co/udKBKxnKlW We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab so it could propose experiments run them at scale learn from the results and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down by 40%. https://t.co/udKBKxnKlW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019648655515611305)  2026-02-06T05:45Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The biggest moat openai/anthropic have is that this is hard Musk's Grok [----] timeline: Jul [--] "Grok [----] is inevitable" Aug [--] "hopefully this month reaches #1" Nov [--] "might be ready by Christmas" Dec [--] "coming out in [--] or [--] weeks" Jan [--] "Grok [----] will be based" Jan [--] delayed to mid-Feb (power outages) Jan [--] "largest https://t.co/5zjeeYmoLK Musk's Grok [----] timeline: Jul [--] "Grok [----] is inevitable" Aug [--] "hopefully this month reaches #1" Nov [--] "might be ready by Christmas" Dec [--] "coming out in [--] or [--] weeks" Jan [--] "Grok [----] will be based" Jan [--] delayed to mid-Feb (power outages) Jan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019770135796658659)  2026-02-06T13:48Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Because theres not much money in it. Its actively against the interests of big robotics/embodied ai players to benchmark until such time as benchmarking becomes mandatory/easy and theres actual competition at point of deployment. Currently too many other factors influence success rates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019770641050955884)  2026-02-06T13:50Z 29.7K followers, 10.5K engagements


"@Dreamuai No it can't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019775369486684296)  2026-02-06T14:09Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@srini_vij They seem to have hit their stride with 5.2/5.3 codex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019775536545857789)  2026-02-06T14:09Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"The big improvement is going to come from api-enabled automated labs more than the particular AI running them It's telling that you still need humans to run many procedures. Robots are hard https://t.co/gY68YxEMrT It's telling that you still need humans to run many procedures. Robots are hard https://t.co/gY68YxEMrT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019775763671564533)  2026-02-06T14:10Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@mario_bollini @CyberRobooo Amazing video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019776867205554546)  2026-02-06T14:15Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@oktayarslan They cant show you that because it doesnt exist yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019781375721918806)  2026-02-06T14:33Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@psidart @kcchutes I appreciate that thank you I got to my current very modest level of success by (I think) not shamelessly self promoting or anything and just stating my honest opinions so id rather continue doing that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019781802634748382)  2026-02-06T14:34Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@Pushkar11420566 Honestly i doubt the eeg stuff goes anywhere signal is so noisy. But the rest seems scalable enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019781968083259745)  2026-02-06T14:35Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"A lot of folks on my feed talking about American competition with China. This should be a huge alarm for everyone who cares about the country. The world's best and brightest used to come to the United States and stay here. If this is changing it is a massive policy failure Vietnams two most world-renowned mathematicians Vu Ha Van (Yale) and Ngo Bao Chau (UChicago) are both leaving the US for the University of Hong Kong. https://t.co/Q56o0fW362 Vietnams two most world-renowned mathematicians Vu Ha Van (Yale) and Ngo Bao Chau (UChicago) are both leaving the US for the University of Hong Kong."  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019783550556643502)  2026-02-06T14:41Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@shreyasgite @pantographPBC Yeah i want one of these little guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019788237028422025)  2026-02-06T15:00Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@itsolelehmann Wait but isnt most of that time compression from the automated lab not gpt5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019788858175439034)  2026-02-06T15:02Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"When it comes to crazy dynamic whole body control it really seems BD has caught up with the coolest videos we have seen from Unitree and Engine Atlas can perform a backflip combo like a gymnast and also walk naturally across a stage. These very different movements are enabled by the whole-body learning framework developed by the RAI Institute and deployed by @BostonDynamics. Were getting closer to robust generalist https://t.co/UOKJrA6cX8 Atlas can perform a backflip combo like a gymnast and also walk naturally across a stage. These very different movements are enabled by the whole-body"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019824691561758981)  2026-02-06T17:25Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@AndyMasley People badly want AI to be fake and autonomy to be broken. This isn't illiteracy its wish casting IMO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019824841961185466)  2026-02-06T17:25Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@sankaet You're fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019843600402771997)  2026-02-06T18:40Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"One learned controller all humanoids Can a single learned controller generalize across diverse humanoid embodiments Introducing XHugWBC a novel cross embodiment training framework that enables generalist humanoid control through: 1) physics-consistent morphological randomization 2) unified state-action https://t.co/DUfTShvUfT Can a single learned controller generalize across diverse humanoid embodiments Introducing XHugWBC a novel cross embodiment training framework that enables generalist humanoid control through: 1) physics-consistent morphological randomization 2) unified state-action"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019848069786083335)  2026-02-06T18:58Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@philfung I am not sure about this one There is video of them teleop i assume they are currently building a base model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019909086465155191)  2026-02-06T23:00Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@_kelsey_pool Yes sorry my post was very misleading"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019910891119198238)  2026-02-06T23:07Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Open-source version of the crazy Boston Dynamics video. BD still does deserve props for doing it with a full-sized robot which does make things a lot harder But they weren't the first One of my favorite robot clips (filmed Oct 2025). You can train any crazy full-body motions like this with our open-source stack without changing any parameters. whole_body_tracking: https://t.co/AZayYjVHwG mjlab: https://t.co/3Em1c8oZ33 https://t.co/42idqYhlw5 One of my favorite robot clips (filmed Oct 2025). You can train any crazy full-body motions like this with our open-source stack without changing any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019944313719771173)  2026-02-07T01:20Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@soft_servo Anki has been trying to build little things on wheels right Its very hard to nail without owning the AI i think. Perhaps the inevitable OpenAI consumer robot will be this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019950072125952079)  2026-02-07T01:43Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I feel like this post came across as unnecessarily critical of cartwheel which I feel is in bad taste. So I just want to say I really like what theyre doing and I was really hoping they could stick it out long enough The problem with cute robots is that it needs to be able to do stuff still and doing stuff is the hard part Most robots still can't do anything autonomously in a home no matter how ugly they are. But if it cant do stuff why not just get a dog or play a video game or something The problem with cute robots is that it needs to be able to do stuff still and doing stuff is the hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019950474565165430)  2026-02-07T01:44Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Doing all of this with a 100kg/200lb industrial humanoid is much more difficult Atlas at it again 🤯 Remember how people weren't impressed after Atlas did a backflip at CES People kept saying that i barely landed People compared it to the demo videos of humanoids from @UnitreeRobotics. However few people took into account that Atlas weighs almost [---] https://t.co/djD1TMJeZM Atlas at it again 🤯 Remember how people weren't impressed after Atlas did a backflip at CES People kept saying that i barely landed People compared it to the demo videos of humanoids from @UnitreeRobotics. However few"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020173740416369095)  2026-02-07T16:32Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@leonardopviana @BostonDynamics Crucial to have real world experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020183552252670430)  2026-02-07T17:11Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@vai_viswanathan @NimaGard Certainly this is going to depend on the task That's part of the point of the original post though. Robotics is so many different problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020184492053614748)  2026-02-07T17:14Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@lukas_m_ziegler No matter who wins they win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020185451731222878)  2026-02-07T17:18Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I am curious how people feel about me often using generative ai images to illustrate these posts. I think every post needs an image and I wasnt about to include any real robot for this one specifically How to fake a robotics result a short guide: - control the environment carefully minimize scene diversity - never release anything or let other people try out your model - cherry pick baselines and benchmarks A short blog post on bad practices in robotics -- all of which I https://t.co/YH7afbcAIu How to fake a robotics result a short guide: - control the environment carefully minimize scene"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020304868343443476)  2026-02-08T01:13Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@xu545302 Theyve been around [--] years and are doing pretty solid open research of the sort that most American companies dont bother doing bar NVIDIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020329113228308968)  2026-02-08T02:49Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@xu545302 Stuff like this is cool to see https://seed.bytedance.com/en/gr_rl https://seed.bytedance.com/en/gr_rl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020329203754008783)  2026-02-08T02:49Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@BenBear Their new cars are absolutely not 200k more like 70"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020332172033552424)  2026-02-08T03:01Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Predictable shame that a lot of moltbook was fake. Doesn't change the underlying trends MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake. Just a few days ago many AI influencers (including Andrej Karpathy) had said that the website was "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff". It wasn't. The "taking over humanity" posts were human-generated. The https://t.co/pzAGemLcHJ MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake. Just a few days ago many AI influencers (including Andrej Karpathy) had said that the website was "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff". It"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020334423254990915)  2026-02-08T03:10Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@fabono8 All of these countries including the USA do more manufacturing than ever. example:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020536582025965620)  2026-02-08T16:33Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@fabono8 manufacturing *as a percentage of GDP* has been doing down which is significant and reflects a shift to services but supports the original point: that manufacturing is already pretty productive and high-value. Additional point is that we're not adding much *new* manufacturing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020536880123507114)  2026-02-08T16:35Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@Noahpinion Low earth orbit data centers wouldn't solve this youd need off world manufacturing and supply chains or they'll be just as dependent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020540729878003755)  2026-02-08T16:50Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@ErenChenAI Weird vibe having her dance like that with a child sized robot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020554091454144567)  2026-02-08T17:43Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@Darpinian @Noahpinion a future humanity has no meaningful impact on any more which is pretty sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020556928066166961)  2026-02-08T17:54Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@ramez @METR_Evals I like the point about other evals showing diminishing returns. We clearly (anecdotally) *are* seeing a massive improvement in the ability of these systems to "just solve" coding problems but it would be nice to see more evals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020561553615908913)  2026-02-08T18:13Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Artificial intelligence scaling surveillance to every street in America. Much more palpably concerning than any superintelligence misalignment scenario. Can the government secretly access these systems you would really hope not but prior evidence suggests yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020562106106441834)  2026-02-08T18:15Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"To be fair tests of human knowledge like this work for humans in part because our human intelligence is fundamentally different and much more lossy vs what a transformer does Its hard to make predictions from an individual data pt like this. One could argue the ai might just remember how to write this fairly easily as there are tons of examples that are easy to follow which are almost certainly in its training data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020572390913130760)  2026-02-08T18:56Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"OpenAI robotics release coming soon https://t.co/ZvJGTl7Ret https://t.co/ZvJGTl7Ret"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020732723602542718)  2026-02-09T05:33Z 29.7K followers, 19.9K engagements


"Literally [----] but big brother will help you find your dog"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020900993307697515)  2026-02-09T16:41Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@JieWang_ZJUI Yeah i think this is the biggest thing. The franka has like 10cm usable area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020901260040229237)  2026-02-09T16:43Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@0fir0z @DavidSacks Us officials think they can tariff their way to success for free but China did both Lots of others think US dominance in software will allow them to be the robot "brain" without building anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020922397885596114)  2026-02-09T18:07Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@ruima Terrible for society"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020950820540264669)  2026-02-09T19:59Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"3. you work with robots My steelman case for in-person work is: [--]. You are a [---] start-up where everyone is under age [--] and sleeps in the office anyway [--]. You are a giant mega co. and you need physical coercion to get the median employee to not completely waste their entire day If you are not one My steelman case for in-person work is: [--]. You are a [---] start-up where everyone is under age [--] and sleeps in the office anyway [--]. You are a giant mega co. and you need physical coercion to get the median employee to not completely waste their entire day If you are not one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020953961038336418)  2026-02-09T20:12Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I really like the reflex design awesome to see them scaling up Reflex is building a humanoid factory in Nuevo Leon Thank You to Governor @samuel_garcias and his team for their support. https://t.co/LZlIGeoYjL Reflex is building a humanoid factory in Nuevo Leon Thank You to Governor @samuel_garcias and his team for their support. https://t.co/LZlIGeoYjL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020962983866966166)  2026-02-09T20:48Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@aryind_ Yeah or UMI data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021076479468032075)  2026-02-10T04:19Z 29.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I love that people are trying radically different ideas for how to make robots intelligent We built a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to fully control a physical robot arm (6-DOF) and it's running entirely on a @Raspberry_Pi (no HAT). In our approach the SNN starts untrained and drives the servos directly learning in real time through local learning rules (no backprop https://t.co/caYZIQBlt9 We built a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to fully control a physical robot arm (6-DOF) and it's running entirely on a @Raspberry_Pi (no HAT). In our approach the SNN starts untrained and drives the servos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021090846016180287)  2026-02-10T05:16Z 29.8K followers, 14.5K engagements


"@TetraxYT @aryind_ True but it doesn't seem like a huge downgrade at least under certain constraints. Some of the coolest stuff ive seen has been umi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021092074343256144)  2026-02-10T05:21Z 29.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Not often you see a potential win- win like this French agrivoltaics trials show crops under solar panels had up to 18% higher yields far fewer heat-stress days cooler soils and better animal welfare while generating clean power. This is a win-win governments should scale now. https://t.co/IVkvevFm8k French agrivoltaics trials show crops under solar panels had up to 18% higher yields far fewer heat-stress days cooler soils and better animal welfare while generating clean power. This is a win-win governments should scale now. https://t.co/IVkvevFm8k"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021262679038472445)  2026-02-10T16:39Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The problem with cute robots is that it needs to be able to do stuff still and doing stuff is the hard part Most robots still can't do anything autonomously in a home no matter how ugly they are. But if it cant do stuff why not just get a dog or play a video game or something Cartwheel shutting down is very sad. But the friendly robot idea is not dead - we have fauna (usa) enchanted tools (europe) and Fourier (china) all of which have clearly learned the "it must be able to do stuff too" lesson and are working hard on it The dream of the "lovable" humanoid hits the capital wall. Cartwheel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019868776301199638)  2026-02-06T20:20Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"I swear we get a post like this every other week China won. This is another deepseek moment MiniMax [---] is now the best model in the world On par with opus [---] SOTA in coding excel data analysis deep research document generation and summarization Optimized thinking efficiency + [---] tps to achieve 3x faster than opus https://t.co/9ZKAI5Ndsa China won. This is another deepseek moment MiniMax [---] is now the best model in the world On par with opus [---] SOTA in coding excel data analysis deep research document generation and summarization Optimized thinking efficiency + [---] tps to achieve 3x"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022076780971000163)  2026-02-12T22:34Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The two points of humanoids: (1) using their whole body and workspace and (2) managing terrain and we see especially little of the latter Cool work Robust humanoid perceptive locomotion is still underexplored. Especially when different cameras see different terrains paths get narrow and payloads disturb balance. Introduce RPL tackling this with one unified policy: Challenging terrains (slopes stairs and stepping https://t.co/tTCgI3ldaR Robust humanoid perceptive locomotion is still underexplored. Especially when different cameras see different terrains paths get narrow and payloads disturb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019096701324378171)  2026-02-04T17:12Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"This is really cool and also I guess i can never trust video as evidence of reality ever again. Back to social networks and "its real because someone i trust said its real" IT FUCKING HAPPENED. Seedance [---] now works with the @openclaw agent inside @chatcutapp. This UGC video was generated entirely with Seedance [---] after I sent an Amazon link. The agent crawled the page extracted product info and photos then fed the right assets into Seedance https://t.co/TOyChxh6Rx IT FUCKING HAPPENED. Seedance [---] now works with the @openclaw agent inside @chatcutapp. This UGC video was generated entirely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022052157986635777)  2026-02-12T20:56Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The robots are building themselves now Interesting to look at the hands. Big change from previous versions like the [--] fingered hand they sell. Very prominent and well positioned end effector cameras Unitree Embodied AI Model Manufactures Robots in Factory🤩 Based on Unitrees UnifoLM-X1-0 embodied AI model this is an actual deployment at Unitrees own robot factory. https://t.co/yw2Fw5hK9X Unitree Embodied AI Model Manufactures Robots in Factory🤩 Based on Unitrees UnifoLM-X1-0 embodied AI model this is an actual deployment at Unitrees own robot factory. https://t.co/yw2Fw5hK9X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022316803288862794)  2026-02-13T14:27Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"An incredibly cool and innovative humanoid company ⚡Exciting news LimX Dynamics just secured $200M in Series B funding backed by top investors like Stone Venture Oriental Fortune Capital CoStone Capital and others 🚀 So excited to be on this journey building whats next.🔥 Onward and upward 🤖✨ https://t.co/9k9WK4QaKX ⚡Exciting news LimX Dynamics just secured $200M in Series B funding backed by top investors like Stone Venture Oriental Fortune Capital CoStone Capital and others 🚀 So excited to be on this journey building whats next.🔥 Onward and upward 🤖✨ https://t.co/9k9WK4QaKX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2018175849669759135)  2026-02-02T04:13Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Saw my first Waymo in Pittsburgh today. Well my [--] year old saw it first. Really she saw a car with lidars on it and said it was "like herman" (our Innate Mars a tiny home robot with a lidar) I guess i'm just surprised she already sort of knows what a lidar is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2018698099330371961)  2026-02-03T14:48Z 29.7K followers, [----] engagements


"If americans are worried about this maybe we should be subsidizing more humanoid development China is subsidizing humanoid robots the way it subsidized solar panels a decade ago. The government is giving robotics companies free land favorable bank loans and massive buyer subsidies. In [----] the same playbook turned China into the world's largest solar manufacturer. China is subsidizing humanoid robots the way it subsidized solar panels a decade ago. The government is giving robotics companies free land favorable bank loans and massive buyer subsidies. In [----] the same playbook turned China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020892288449232996)  2026-02-09T16:07Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"One side note is that @notmahi is one of the fairly few people who's been consistently NOT training foundation models but instead aiming to train tiny models that actually just work anywhere and this is kind of the obvious endgame of that philosophy okay actually yes https://t.co/BwEOHMWyla okay actually yes https://t.co/BwEOHMWyla"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021428964745765241)  2026-02-11T03:39Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@rohanpaul_ai A simulator would be a great world model if it was fast accurate and scalable enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021558277377519833)  2026-02-11T12:13Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@teortaxesTex @edwardo_gogo Bearish on meta due to track record and culture though. Maybe avocado will surprise they did a huge purge to try to fix things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021578797800112396)  2026-02-11T13:35Z 29.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@cixliv Which robot is this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021586614116372771)  2026-02-11T14:06Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"To rephrase Moravec's paradox somethings things are hard for humans solely because they're hard *for humans to do* for our bodies and minds-- not because theyre actually objectively hard. Maybe we just didn't realize this thing was actually easy for the right sort of mind Seeing a lot of posts from software engineers that are like "AI is devouring my job and soon it will happen to everyone". And it's like maybe but just because you have an easy job doesn't mean everyone else does. Seeing a lot of posts from software engineers that are like "AI is devouring my job and soon it will happen to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021587696179658942)  2026-02-11T14:10Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@Felbloodreaper This is true But also copyright treaties are bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021725722474373170)  2026-02-11T23:19Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@BartronPolygon Yeah that's fair its a good price. Need better marketing and some public validation. People have been watching weave in the window in sf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021764731887927366)  2026-02-12T01:54Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@BartronPolygon Good for consumer. But I also think weave will (hopefully) go mobile as well. And theres a huge difference between a demo reel and a product"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021764943448780880)  2026-02-12T01:54Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Ai will not cost you your job because its probably taking care of kids or old people Almost all job growth is happening in the meds & eds sectors that are notoriously resistant to technology-driven productivity improvement. https://t.co/00GT3jtJG7 Almost all job growth is happening in the meds & eds sectors that are notoriously resistant to technology-driven productivity improvement. https://t.co/00GT3jtJG7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021770110541713594)  2026-02-12T02:15Z 29.8K followers, 14.6K engagements


"@SIGKITTEN Show me the policy and im in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021770211393966228)  2026-02-12T02:15Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@mattyglesias Yeah that's the plan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021774612229693867)  2026-02-12T02:33Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Realistically though manual labor jobs are safer by far; automating this kind of work is much harder than automating coding. Part of what made coding work so well is that its something where the ai can generate potential solutions and assess them itself at scale. This is still hard for robotics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021775024827642342)  2026-02-12T02:35Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@JieWang_ZJUI Why is that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021780698026402156)  2026-02-12T02:57Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@ascriven01 @mattyglesias This seems unlikely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021785211659542808)  2026-02-12T03:15Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@JuliaMarkD2 @mattyglesias It'll happen despite it being way harder. Robots like these are being designed for it. But remember humans evolved for the real world -- we just invented software. Shouldn't be too surprising that'll come first"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021785511917183358)  2026-02-12T03:16Z 29.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@JessicaY75136 @mattyglesias Yes they will get much cheaper they are still priced as luxury widgets but in [--] years they will be consumer electronics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021788512182219126)  2026-02-12T03:28Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@JessicaY75136 @mattyglesias Not next year but closer than you think. We saw one humanoid product launch last year (1x) and a clothes folding humanoid just today (weave) plus about a dozen Chinese companies a week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021789854749901084)  2026-02-12T03:33Z 29.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@RichardHanania I still think this will just. self correct. People who still actually want kids will have them (when they can). And humanity will rebound. But we are in for some sad gray years of empty playgrounds in between"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021795475192483903)  2026-02-12T03:56Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"True general purpose robots are going to need to do multi-step symbolic reasoning like this Navigating a mobile manipulator among movable obstacles is tough. We built a fast task planner using neuro-symbolic relaxation to boost both success rate and planning speed. Successfully verified on a quadruped manipulator Paper accepted to RA-L. Details: https://t.co/P1PAOrsajw https://t.co/CpLePFp1yU Navigating a mobile manipulator among movable obstacles is tough. We built a fast task planner using neuro-symbolic relaxation to boost both success rate and planning speed. Successfully verified on a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019032269500162107)  2026-02-04T12:56Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Incorporating humanoids into complex workflows with humans and other types of robot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019523249881903114)  2026-02-05T21:27Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Impressed they could find someone in the BD office who could do the motion capture for this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019775294350172357)  2026-02-06T14:08Z 29.8K followers, 24.3K engagements


"Love to see this video on the building of Foundation's humanoid. I often forget about them you dont see as much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019782866373427398)  2026-02-06T14:38Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Look no one needs to iron their clothes its [----]. Which is good because Optimus clearly isnt doing it in this video either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020525419661869176)  2026-02-08T15:49Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"You should like this post and make it happen Should I share a blog named reviewing VLAs in 2026: from RT-2 to PI06 like here if you are interested Should I share a blog named reviewing VLAs in 2026: from RT-2 to PI06 like here if you are interested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021779767092293883)  2026-02-12T02:53Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"And today we have things like this: figure [--] running. This is a while body control neural net presumably the same basic recipe from Tesla and Unitree videos we have seen. Amazing work from the figure team but running is now basically commoditized. The best humanoid robotics in the world from [--] years ago at the Darpa grand challenge. Its amazing how fast this has changed; imagine what this will be like in [--] years https://t.co/xdNIoJ62rZ The best humanoid robotics in the world from [--] years ago at the Darpa grand challenge. Its amazing how fast this has changed; imagine what this will be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/1996581223016333413)  2025-12-04T14:03Z 29.8K followers, 5.1M engagements


"Always important to remember that a lot of these robots are "faking" the humanlike motions -- its a property of how they're trained not an inherent property of the hardware. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions. And today we have things like this: figure [--] running. This is a while body control neural net presumably the same basic recipe from Tesla and Unitree videos we have seen. Amazing work from the figure team but running is now basically commoditized. https://t.co/Pb9HWkiGDB And today we have things like this: figure [--] running. This is a while body"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/1996586464197640193)  2025-12-04T14:24Z 29.8K followers, 9.9M engagements


"The problem with robotics data is there are so many little "islands" of exploration in the vast latent space of robotics use cases but the whole ocean in between is basically unmapped. That means that youre often still better off just collecting your own data. i was visiting a hackathon where 80+ participants were training pi0/0.5 gr00t smolvla ACT DP etc. on lerobot arms the best and most sample efficient policies were trained *from scratch* we still do not have an open source x-embodied GPT-2 but i'm hopeful for this year i was visiting a hackathon where 80+ participants were training"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2018462726465663458)  2026-02-02T23:13Z 29.8K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Okay but like this is a g1 type robot Take a toddler dont put them in snow boots and tape their hands to a shovel and see how much gets done Look the humanoid will never beat the purpose-built robot at moving large amounts of snow but i'd love a robot that could clean steps -- that's the part where people tend to slip and fall I think there will obviously be room for a wide range of robot form factors in the future https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019071349872841152 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019071349872841152"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019071349872841152)  2026-02-04T15:31Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Data collection at scale with EEG data as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019513062173339813)  2026-02-05T20:46Z 29.8K followers, 68.4K engagements


"Automated extremely rapid truck loading/unloading thanks to these super thin slip bots. Part of the fully automated supply chain of the future https://t.co/ZmFB2pKmi4 https://t.co/ZmFB2pKmi4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019555026906308883)  2026-02-05T23:33Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


""Chinese body American brain" in action This is not and never will be the future. Brain and body together or not at all Electric car maker Faraday Future announced the sale of two humanoid robots in Las Vegas yesterday aiming to be the "first US company to deliver both humanoid and bionic robots." However these are white-labeled A2 and X2 humanoids from the Chinese company AGIBOT. The https://t.co/xny3PqIoiI Electric car maker Faraday Future announced the sale of two humanoid robots in Las Vegas yesterday aiming to be the "first US company to deliver both humanoid and bionic robots." However"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019788027279581606)  2026-02-06T14:59Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Pantograph robot building with jenga blocks. Focusing on RL is a great and fairly unique strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019788505715523962)  2026-02-06T15:01Z 29.8K followers, 29.3K engagements


"Such a cute little guy :( The dream of the "lovable" humanoid hits the capital wall. Cartwheel Robotics is shutting down. 💔 Founder Scott LaValley: "In hardware capital is oxygen." Following the fall of K-Scale Labs the "Valley of Death" for American humanoid robotics grows wider. Read our full The dream of the "lovable" humanoid hits the capital wall. Cartwheel Robotics is shutting down. 💔 Founder Scott LaValley: "In hardware capital is oxygen." Following the fall of K-Scale Labs the "Valley of Death" for American humanoid robotics grows wider. Read our full"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019868901421539581)  2026-02-06T20:20Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"What Has robotics gone too far Epic blackout in China caused by a pig flying on a drone A humorous incident occurred at the end of January. A farmer decided to use a drone to transport an animal across mountainous terrain but the drone hit power lines. As a result the pig got stuck and thousands of people https://t.co/ZOvl1mNreA Epic blackout in China caused by a pig flying on a drone A humorous incident occurred at the end of January. A farmer decided to use a drone to transport an animal across mountainous terrain but the drone hit power lines. As a result the pig got stuck and thousands of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020172792499683455)  2026-02-07T16:28Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Honestly the bigger surprise is that the others are so flat. This is partly showing how automated manufacturing already is in the west -- Fanuc had "dark factories" back in [----] in Japan. Chinas adoption of industrial robots has surged over the past decade Industrial robots are rapidly becoming a common part of manufacturing in some countries. The chart here shows how many new ones are installed each year in the industrialized countries for which we have https://t.co/KqJT6PXTlF Chinas adoption of industrial robots has surged over the past decade Industrial robots are rapidly becoming a common"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020524401360302396)  2026-02-08T15:45Z 29.8K followers, 13.6K engagements


"Humanoids are still really struggling with force control and compliance huh These are the types of humanoid robot demos we want to see. 😂 https://t.co/bv9sgYTHFx These are the types of humanoid robot demos we want to see. 😂 https://t.co/bv9sgYTHFx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020524962004566331)  2026-02-08T15:47Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"This is heartwarming but now imagine an authoritarian government is using this to search for dissidents this is panopticon total surveillance state stuff People ask me all the time about compelling use cases of AI. Heres a good one. Millions of dogs go missing in the U.S. every yearand options for finding them are often painfully limited. Our Ring team saw an opportunity to use our community and technology to help so they https://t.co/Fn7qZfbm34 People ask me all the time about compelling use cases of AI. Heres a good one. Millions of dogs go missing in the U.S. every yearand options for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020555407526187437)  2026-02-08T17:48Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"I think good hardware choices are clearly so important for robotics -- it's a physical problem. They also aren't always intuitive to people used to different types of solutions [--]. I call it Large Model Chauvinism the belief that AI is getting so good that hardware can afford to be dumb. We spent weeks debating whether to add end stops (mechanical limit switches) to robot joints. The argument: the AI policy should learn the limits. Even Tesla still [--]. I call it Large Model Chauvinism the belief that AI is getting so good that hardware can afford to be dumb. We spent weeks debating whether to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021417705753149473)  2026-02-11T02:55Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@___Harald___ First the desert then Mars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022108431952592933)  2026-02-13T00:39Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"What an utterly bleak post. I share the skepticism for anything that separates robot "brain" from "body" but: - a lot of the best whole body control work is coming from the USA and Europe -- dancing robots are not useful; of the Chinese companies UBTech seems like the leader in deploying commercially viable humanoids and they're mostly absent from the discussion - there will be many successful robotics companies not just in china - the future is not set in stone American companies can in fact build robots. We just saw the public fauna release for example and the most impressive CES demo was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019299286840930391)  2026-02-05T06:37Z 29.8K followers, 10.9K engagements


"@lukas_m_ziegler nvidia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020161343068725696)  2026-02-07T15:42Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Looks a lot like Kuka arms with the robotiq 2f-140 gripper. Great hardware that's a lot like that i used in grad school. And at nvidia. And at meta. A clip of a robot from OpenAI's Super Bowl ad (which appears to be a routine teleoperated training). https://t.co/zabFW8FykE A clip of a robot from OpenAI's Super Bowl ad (which appears to be a routine teleoperated training). https://t.co/zabFW8FykE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020857764495364543)  2026-02-09T13:50Z 29.8K followers, 12.2K engagements


"One notable moment from the Reflex video because it involves a lot of precision + application of force + tool use: opening a can I really like the reflex design awesome to see them scaling up I really like the reflex design awesome to see them scaling up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020979286371598648)  2026-02-09T21:53Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"This is what the first and last party after humanity goes extinct will look like AGIBOT just pulled off the world's FIRST fully autonomous robot gala. Hundreds of humanoids crushed synchronized dances magic tricks killer comedy and original songs all on their own. No human scripts no directors. Just pure robot collab: perception decisions whole-body https://t.co/FBnyo6HeBU AGIBOT just pulled off the world's FIRST fully autonomous robot gala. Hundreds of humanoids crushed synchronized dances magic tricks killer comedy and original songs all on their own. No human scripts no directors. Just"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021530192884465839)  2026-02-11T10:22Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Building sim environments is hard -- especially ones that are useful for assessing progress on real-world performance. With PolaRiS you can scan an environment for 2-5 minutes and use 2d gaussian splatting + some tools to create a high fidelity simulation. Evaluating robot policies is hard. Ideally instead of testing every new policy on a real robot you could test in simulation; but simulations rarely correlate well with real-world performance. In order to make good useful simulations you need to spend a great deal of time and https://t.co/F6gNrcWCUi Evaluating robot policies is hard. Ideally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021586517794213942)  2026-02-11T14:05Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Buy a robot that will fold your laundry for $10k Today we're releasing Isaac 0: our first robot for the home. And we made a short video for our first customers to share what its been like having one in their home 😊 https://t.co/rDnpy0zMdi Today we're releasing Isaac 0: our first robot for the home. And we made a short video for our first customers to share what its been like having one in their home 😊 https://t.co/rDnpy0zMdi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021755151451553898)  2026-02-12T01:16Z 29.8K followers, 23.1K engagements


"You dont need brute force randomization for cross embodiment whole body control "Cross-embodiment" is a sign of generalization. Weve seen huge progress in manipulation and navigation but what about humanoid whole-body control Can ONE policy control multiple different humanoids Meet our #ICRA2026 work 🦅EAGLE: Embodiment-Aware Generalist Specialist https://t.co/n3npCHxQXD "Cross-embodiment" is a sign of generalization. Weve seen huge progress in manipulation and navigation but what about humanoid whole-body control Can ONE policy control multiple different humanoids Meet our #ICRA2026 work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019524615903801690)  2026-02-05T21:32Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Doing the things that we really want robots to do instead of people Everyone talks about humanoids. Meanwhile @loki_robotics: https://t.co/Bprpx2nuVP Everyone talks about humanoids. Meanwhile @loki_robotics: https://t.co/Bprpx2nuVP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2019539037632225438)  2026-02-05T22:30Z 29.8K followers, 1.4M engagements


"How to fake a robotics result a short guide: - control the environment carefully minimize scene diversity - never release anything or let other people try out your model - cherry pick baselines and benchmarks A short blog post on bad practices in robotics -- all of which I have been guilty of at one time or another so please don't think of this as an attack if you too are guilty of them https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020162459630260229)  2026-02-07T15:47Z 29.8K followers, 32.3K engagements


"ByteDance seed has been a peak robotics lab for a while but this new video generation tool is actually unreal. And much more in line with their core business 👀Seedance [---] is out. Wow. DeepMind has Veo3. ByteDance Seed has Seedance. ByteDance Seeds research velocity is real and Seedance makes that hard to deny. One day this research branding will be too strong to ignore. https://t.co/gjDn9PNROa 👀Seedance [---] is out. Wow. DeepMind has Veo3. ByteDance Seed has Seedance. ByteDance Seeds research velocity is real and Seedance makes that hard to deny. One day this research branding will be too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020307032424042871)  2026-02-08T01:21Z 29.8K followers, 22.4K engagements


"Sometimes I think American businessmen are the biggest threat to American reindustrialization Let me reframe this entire story: A Chinese company invests in a factory in the US that was previously a shuttered GM plant employs [----] workers in the US with only 1% on visas and outcompetes a nearby plant that is owned by Vitro a Mexican company. https://t.co/sZHw9J05KT Let me reframe this entire story: A Chinese company invests in a factory in the US that was previously a shuttered GM plant employs [----] workers in the US with only 1% on visas and outcompetes a nearby plant that is owned by Vitro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2020982154352787500)  2026-02-09T22:04Z 29.8K followers, 77.9K engagements


"This feels like it will be really useful for robot training. Take a video of an expert performing a task and generate robot viewpoint for training. EgoX: Egocentric Video Generation from a Single Exocentric Video https://t.co/wYc94pJQrV https://t.co/STAlFI7it0 EgoX: Egocentric Video Generation from a Single Exocentric Video https://t.co/wYc94pJQrV https://t.co/STAlFI7it0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021042686153851306)  2026-02-10T02:05Z 29.8K followers, 19.8K engagements


"Compliance is incredibly important for humanoid robots to be useful 🚀 Introducing CHIP: Adaptive Compliance for Humanoid Control through Hindsight Perturbation Current humanoids face a trade-off: they are either Agile & Stiff OR Slow & Soft. CHIP breaks this barrier. We enable on-the-fly switching between Compliant (wiping 🧼 https://t.co/F3nalxU6rA 🚀 Introducing CHIP: Adaptive Compliance for Humanoid Control through Hindsight Perturbation Current humanoids face a trade-off: they are either Agile & Stiff OR Slow & Soft. CHIP breaks this barrier. We enable on-the-fly switching between"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021249250860945791)  2026-02-10T15:45Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Language is not the natural form for commanding a robot If evolution happened over a day language is its last [--] mins. Yet today robot learning relies too much on lang for generalization. Here's an alternative: instead of what to do tell policies where to make contact next. These 3D contact points are then fed into the model (2/n) https://t.co/Au3Gh3yxN2 If evolution happened over a day language is its last [--] mins. Yet today robot learning relies too much on lang for generalization. Here's an alternative: instead of what to do tell policies where to make contact next. These 3D contact points"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021365493991424351)  2026-02-10T23:27Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"First time a Chinese AI company -- bytedance -- has just completely owned a product category that isnt hardware related. Surprised we have not seen a thousand versions of the "deepseek moment" article from last year yet Seedance [---] changed filmmaking forever. "Will Smith fighting a spaghetti monster epic action film scene different cuts 80s movie scene" Now you can direct your own movies 🧵👇 https://t.co/1prrQ4NUUh Seedance [---] changed filmmaking forever. "Will Smith fighting a spaghetti monster epic action film scene different cuts 80s movie scene" Now you can direct your own movies 🧵👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021526666334576643)  2026-02-11T10:08Z 29.8K followers, 29.8K engagements


"Really nice stuff. Anyone have any stories about using these tools Meet FastUMI Pro -the system turning real-world data directly into robotic skills: 5x data efficiency. 1/200 the cost of teleoperation. One closed loop: collect - train - policy deployment. Thread on how it actually works👇 #LumosRobotics #FastUMIPro https://t.co/WmXb6Ia2Vq Meet FastUMI Pro -the system turning real-world data directly into robotic skills: 5x data efficiency. 1/200 the cost of teleoperation. One closed loop: collect - train - policy deployment. Thread on how it actually works👇 #LumosRobotics #FastUMIPro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021527680219533515)  2026-02-11T10:12Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Telepresence is a great killer app for humanoids Being able to seamlessly "go home" during work or a trip to check on something play with a kid etc. Will be very important for elderly care in the future too. In the past Westlake has shown really impressive teleop on the unitree g1 nice to see the product vision on their own hardware Titan o1: Bridging worlds in a heartbeat❤❤❤. With the upgraded GAE model weve unified dexterous manipulation and full-body movement like never before. Experience seamless cross-body integration that brings the "far away" right to your fingertips. Titan o1. Be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021529136200642853)  2026-02-11T10:17Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Long March [--] reusable first stage splashes down. Great for humanity that reusable rockets are proliferating quickly; we will become a spacefaring species"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021792239798677864)  2026-02-12T03:43Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"State of RL on robots still seems to lean towards atomic skills as seen here. Pi-0.6* is an exception but leans very heavily on ongoing human demos and interventions SERL shows that if you seed a policy with [--] teleop episodes and then let it "practice" via online RL you can beat a 100-episode imitation learning policy. That resonates with what Ive felt when teleoperating a larger arm: human data is so clearly not optimal. I'm slow af when https://t.co/4JD8GSIIT5 SERL shows that if you seed a policy with [--] teleop episodes and then let it "practice" via online RL you can beat a 100-episode"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2021961591147893188)  2026-02-12T14:56Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"I wish there were robot stores in the USA someone needs to open one Passed by a Unitree robotics store near Shuangjing in Beijing after dinner. You can take home a G1 humanoid robot for around [-----] RMB ($12400). The consumer robotics market in China is moving faster than most people realize. https://t.co/TuKOQtMXr3 Passed by a Unitree robotics store near Shuangjing in Beijing after dinner. You can take home a G1 humanoid robot for around [-----] RMB ($12400). The consumer robotics market in China is moving faster than most people realize. https://t.co/TuKOQtMXr3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022008868000473384)  2026-02-12T18:04Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"This is the first chinese-made EV most americans will see Waymo said they are now providing driverless rides for employees and their guests in San Francisco and Los Angeles with their 6th-Gen Ojai robotaxi. [--] cameras (down from [--] in Gen [--] Jaguars) [--] lidars (down from 5) [--] radars External microphones for sirens https://t.co/e7DfQx9A48 Waymo said they are now providing driverless rides for employees and their guests in San Francisco and Los Angeles with their 6th-Gen Ojai robotaxi. [--] cameras (down from [--] in Gen [--] Jaguars) [--] lidars (down from 5) [--] radars External microphones for sirens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022039205476802821)  2026-02-12T20:04Z 29.8K followers, 36K engagements


"I like this robot design Why buy a robot when you can build your own Meet YOR our new open-source bimanual mobile manipulator robot built for researchers and hackers alike for only $10k. 🧵👇 https://t.co/7yp1kDvuPK Why buy a robot when you can build your own Meet YOR our new open-source bimanual mobile manipulator robot built for researchers and hackers alike for only $10k. 🧵👇 https://t.co/7yp1kDvuPK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022043452176052237)  2026-02-12T20:21Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"It's been a really long road for autonomous trucking - but it's one of those fundamental technologies that will make the world much better off i think through safety reliability and cost of moving things around NEWS: Auroras driverless trucks can now run longer than humans drivers are legally allowed. The company said the latest software update to its driverless hardware suite will enable its trucks to drive nonstop from Phoenix to Fort Worth. That trip is roughly [----] miles long and https://t.co/HBEieaDsAy NEWS: Auroras driverless trucks can now run longer than humans drivers are legally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022045612443938934)  2026-02-12T20:30Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"These elevator robots are a nice compromise towards a full humanoid. Nice stable safe platform to develop dexterous skills without worrying about legs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022108327979721111)  2026-02-13T00:39Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Would never be able to clean a cracked buckling uneven American road I see this cleaning robot everywhere in shenzhen We need this in sf asap https://t.co/CmSNepFnnR I see this cleaning robot everywhere in shenzhen We need this in sf asap https://t.co/CmSNepFnnR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022198878133694630)  2026-02-13T06:39Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Modern methods need ee cameras When people attempt to actually deploy their robots to the real world they add wrist/hand/palm cameras. Unitree needs to sell those as an add on. When people attempt to actually deploy their robots to the real world they add wrist/hand/palm cameras. Unitree needs to sell those as an add on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022323452074442784)  2026-02-13T14:54Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"UnifoLM is open source and there are checkpoints (though not the particular ones in this video): https://github.com/unitreerobotics/unifolm-vla Unitree Embodied AI Model Manufactures Robots in Factory🤩 Based on Unitrees UnifoLM-X1-0 embodied AI model this is an actual deployment at Unitrees own robot factory. https://t.co/yw2Fw5hK9X https://github.com/unitreerobotics/unifolm-vla Unitree Embodied AI Model Manufactures Robots in Factory🤩 Based on Unitrees UnifoLM-X1-0 embodied AI model this is an actual deployment at Unitrees own robot factory. https://t.co/yw2Fw5hK9X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022324332249190478)  2026-02-13T14:57Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Lots of cool tasks in the public checkpoints too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022324759145390260)  2026-02-13T14:59Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Still one of the top "oh wait this might really work" kind of moments for me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022325989250826294)  2026-02-13T15:04Z 29.8K followers, 20.2K engagements


"I mean dancing robots aren't useful sure but we are always hitting new frontiers in dancing robots every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022407788245524753)  2026-02-13T20:29Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@PTrubey That was a weird read either its all ai generated or hes really picked up the 4o writing style"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022451602121007480)  2026-02-13T23:23Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Real in person competition like this is the ultimate test for your robot learning method (and data collection skills). Do you think you could train a robot to fold clothes better than any other robotics team Now is your chance to prove it.and win actual cash prizes The [----] LeHome Challenge is live Here is the details: Phase 1: Train your best clothes folding policy in simulation with [--] https://t.co/FwH7I4PUjz Do you think you could train a robot to fold clothes better than any other robotics team Now is your chance to prove it.and win actual cash prizes The [----] LeHome Challenge is live Here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022694798310936722)  2026-02-14T15:29Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"for what its worth this video is from last summer it's not new -- it's from this blog post https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/training-a-whole-body-control-foundation-model Still one of the top "oh wait this might really work" kind of moments for me https://t.co/PfLpp6Z5Nd https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/training-a-whole-body-control-foundation-model Still one of the top "oh wait this might really work" kind of moments for me https://t.co/PfLpp6Z5Nd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022696848952365279)  2026-02-14T15:38Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Reflex is one of those badly under-hyped robotics companies. they build the robot it looks great and they seem to actually ship The Reflex wheeled humanoid robot is already working autonomously at Arvato Logistics' Louisville warehouse. https://t.co/p0iX4sBiEZ The Reflex wheeled humanoid robot is already working autonomously at Arvato Logistics' Louisville warehouse. https://t.co/p0iX4sBiEZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2022698496231723295)  2026-02-14T15:44Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements

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