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ai/robotics | eng #15 @Meta | 2x founder/exit | contrib SO-ARM | advisor @Cline

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pfung @pfung.dev · Mar 4
This is a great time to learn #robotics! Robot AI has advanced to where a novice like myself can build / train this folding robot in my garage. The tech is not perfect, but it is improving *very quickly* (exciting new papers daily), and will likely be ubiquitous within 2-3 years.
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HUGE: Google Colab can now run inside VS Code.
Which means you can:
- run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode
- use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook.
Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Oh we are cooked aren't we
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Meta Ray-Ban Display + Neural Band available starting today, $799
September 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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robots which can adapt even when some limbs/motors fail.
skild.ai
September 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Grout is a complete scam. If your shower didn't have tiny tiles, then there would be no shower cleaners, no sealants, no chalking, no mildew. Entire sections in Home Depot gone, all co's run by Big Grout.
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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moonwalking policy trained w/ reinforcement learning

DRCD lab, Korea dynamicrobot.kaist.ac.kr
September 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ray Bans w/ beautiful display controlled by moving fingers. $799 — avail Sept 30th. Welcome to the future

about.fb.com/news/2025/09...
Meta Ray-Ban Display: AI Glasses With an EMG Wristband
Today at Connect, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the next evolution in AI glasses: Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band.
about.fb.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Penpot is like Figma but free (to generous limits) OR self-hosted.
I've used it for ~2 days and its quite good.
penpot.app
September 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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High schoolers wear the same gigantic jeans that I wore in high school. Grateful but also a bit sad to have lived a full fashion cycle.
September 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001
August 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Big congrats to @cline.bot on their $32M Series A raise! 2.7M devs strong and a great open-source product that doesn't degrade inference for their bottom line.

www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
AI Coding Tool Cline Has Raised $27 Million To Help Developers Control Their AI Spend
Software developers are often frustrated by obscure pricing plans for the AI coding tools they use. With $27 million in new funding, Cline is developing tools to help them manage their AI bills.
www.forbes.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Director / VP dynamic
July 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I'm obsessed w/ robots that can do real-world tasks reliably (vs general intelligence), and created this repo to track papers that have progressed here.

github.com/philfung/awe...

Please feel free to PR with your research!
GitHub - philfung/awesome-reliable-robotics: Collection of robotics research papers demonstrating reliability and robustness in the real world.
Collection of robotics research papers demonstrating reliability and robustness in the real world. - philfung/awesome-reliable-robotics
github.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Committed "one-piece" uvc camera mount, updated for SO-101 arm.
Simply unscrew the jaw & replace.

GitHub: github.com/TheRobotStud...

Thanks to LeRobot team for reviewing!
July 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The new LeRobot arm calibration for SO-101 is so sick - just wiggle the joints. ∞ times better than SO-100. Props to team for innovative solution.
June 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Iron Man time!
"OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function
We present an open-source, open-hardware exoskeleton to aid in accelerating the growth of robotic exoskeleton research.
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Chinese firefighter robot

Cred: m.weibo.cn/detail/51806...
June 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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he's here!
bsky.app
June 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Grok 3 free on Cline for the next 2 weeks. I've been pleasantly surprised with it.
June 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Top 50 Large Language Model (LLM) Interview Questions by Hao Hoang

drive.google.com/file/d/1wolN...
June 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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quite robust terrain navigation!

from ETH Zurich paper "Parkour in the Wild"
arxiv.org/abs/2505.11164
June 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Disney's papers always have great dancing..

la.disneyresearch.com/publication/...
June 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Interesting 2-wheeler from China's Northeastern University "TDT" lab. Feels like something out of a Transformers movie.

Cred: m.weibo.cn/detail/51710...
May 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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$50M ARR from robodogs
May 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I checked in 'Eye of Sauron' into @LeRobot SO-101 repo. Very useful fixed/pre-calibrated camera view for sharing data between runs and other robot arms.

Instructions: github.com/TheRobotStud...

Thanks @cmcgartoll for original design and @pepijn2233
for considering/reviewing.
May 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM