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Mar 19 50 tweets 13 min read Read on X
The Time Has Come for Robots.

I build AI Agents to replace office workers, but these demos convince me! All physical labor will be gone to robots, too. (even the world's oldest profession).

Just watch it if you disagree. The biggest robot thread ever (50 demos):
1. Neogamma.

General purpose humanoid robot for home.

2. Nvidia Blue.

Runs on Newton, an open-source physics engine developed by NVIDIA and Deepmind.

It's so good that it looks like 3d render, but it's actually real.

3. GR00T N1, the world’s first open foundation model for humanoid robots! It learns from the most diverse physical action dataset ever compiled.

Runs the end-to-end neural net with 2B parameters.

4. Planar Motor - Leviating robots with micro precision.

Super cheap and precise. Can be used in so many business use cases.

5. Amazon Kiva.

The have more than 750,000 of these robots. Just crazy to think how much human labor has been replaced by them and will be replaced further.

6. Humanoid robots are already moving just like humans. Very soon, there won't be any difference. The demo versions prove this. Moving from a demo case to the real world and mass production isn't easy, and it'll take maybe 10 years.

7. Not all robots gonna be super expensive.

This one is open source and costs just $300. It's called Bambot.

8. Even OF model jobs are in danger

9. Once such robots cost less than $10k, it'll be economically viable to use the even to replace low paying jobs

10. General-purpose robots don't need to be programmed for a specific job. They can learn by watching a human doing the job.

11. Not all robots gonna look like humans.

Some will be shaped for a single task, but by doing so, they may replace entire class of human workers.

e.g. construction, moving, manufacturing, lifting.. Once you add AI there, they become so much more useful

12. Robots can be on a factory floor alongside humans, but eventually, human companions will not be needed. Perhaps just one "master human" watching them all to make sure robots don't start to fight for resources :D

13. The robotics field is becoming so popular that people have dropped out of MIT to start robotics startups.

Software will soon be commoditized, and we will enter the age of Hardware and Robots.
14. Robo dogs and drones will be the Army 2.0 in modern warfare.

15. Robots can be built using very durable materials and serve for decades. They can fix themself if needed. Simply walk down to the repair shop and come back as humans visit the hospital.

16. Soon we will see robots serving drinks at the bar

17. Delivery guys will be replaced by this little cute robots

18. Robots building Robots 😱

19. Robots can act together.

20. China is already using robodogs for real

21. Humanoid robots gonna use the snake robots to replace the plumbers

22. Helix from Figure.

Being used for real by their customers

23. Not all robots are smart 🤣

24. Today washing machines and dishwashers took away the boring labor, tomorrow pretty much all the rest of the boring labor will be gone too.

First the upper class will be able to afford it, but eventually everyone, as the price drops. (gemini 2.0)

25. Boston Dynamics is crushing it.

The future of car repair and assembly line.

26. Revise Robotics - automated robots that test, refurbish, and resell used electronics, starting with laptops.

27. Robots can make statues. Better and faster than any humans.

28. Lumos Robotics LUS1 Humanoid Robot

29. This robots moves more like a human than I do

30. Indian robots. Super strong (200kg payload capacity)

31. Chinese robo swarms.

Robo teams.

32. NEO Gamma (Humanoid for Home)

(black mirror episode vibes)

33. Musculoskeletal humanoid called Clone.

The Westword vibes.

34. EngineAI from China.

35. Fourier: GR-2.

(Terminator vibes.)

36. RobotEra: Star1

37. MagicLab

38. Kepler: Forerunner K2

39. Optimus from Tesla

40. Pudu D9

41. Open Source robot from China from Leju Robotics

It includes an SDK for sensors and controls, simulation models, an LLM interface, and some basic demos that work out-of-the-box.

42. Booster Robotics: T1

43. Walker S by UBTECH

44. DR01 from Deep Robotics

45. Tencent Robotics: The Five

46. XPENG: The Iron humanoid

47. Astribot S1

48. Not all the humanoids gonna look like dudes

(even the oldest profession isn't safe)

49. I'm a big fan of robotics, but now, I'm building an AI Agent empire, automating all tasks I can do to reach 99% automation for my org.

Some of my agents:
@seobotai AI Agent for Blog SEO
@listingbott Web agent to list your product on all relevant web directories more in bio.

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My 17 ideation methods 🧵:

(I shipped more than 50 products doing this)
1) Marketplace, where you're the chicken.

To solve chicken & the egg problem, you should be the chicken and your users are the eggs. E.g. in TinyAdz I was the first advertizer, I paid to adevertize my own products, so that publishers could earn money on the day one. So easy.
2) Build a tool for yourself.

If u truly satisfy yourself & become a big fan of your own tool, the chance you won’t find external users is zero.
(I built SeoBot and listingbott this way)
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I've tried all (46 😵‍💫) AI Coding Agents & IDEs

[Factory, Cursor, Heyboss, Windsurf, Emergent, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Stitch & more]

The most complete list ever made (with demos & notes):
1. @FactoryAI

An advanced AI coding tool: generates complex apps, docs, works well with large existing projects, has access to web search, MCPs, can run code on my local machine + UX is 🤌 . best for coders.

I'm building "Inbox agent" using this tool, gonna report back soon
2. @heybossAI

I'd say the most creative AI Coding tool on the market (.
Can build production grade apps, with backend and database.

I'm building my inbox agent here too, so far, I really love the design output.
Works great for non-coders.
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May 26
I acquired Unicorn Platform for almost $1M.

Since then, it went from 25k to 551k users.

I've literally tried every growth method I've heard of.
All my marketing failures & successes:

1. Partnerships with incubators.

I contacted all famous startup incubators and signed deals with most to place unicorn as a "perk" there.

I thought it'd become a passive stream of users, but I don't think I got even one paying user out of this. I canceled all these deals.
2. Paid ads.

I wasted lots of cash on google/meta/x/tt/reddit ads. No results at all for my 2-3 fig/mo budgets. Mostly clicks from bots & non relevant countries.

Now i run my ads on using my own TinyAdz. It works well, I plan to spend 5% of my profit on ads from now on.
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May 16
This never works:
→ Startup Idea → Plan → Design → Coding → Marketing→ Audience → 😣

This works ( sometimes ):
I launched 20+ startups using the following playbook:

Audience → Problem → Idea → Validation → Waitlist → SEO → One Feature MVP → Iterate → Marketing → Success.

See a full breakdown of each step 🧵 :
1) Audience.

- X, Linkedin, Reddit, DevTo, HackerNoun,
- 3 hours daily.
- Never skip it, just like a gym.

Every idea must start with an audience (unless u r a Steve Jobs level genius).
It'll help you build smth people actually want. Image
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May 12
The Automation Era Has Begun.

We're the first generation to make work & death optional.
I'm contributing to this by building AI agents to replace boring labor.

24 crazy demos (AI Agents, Robots, Coding, Humanoid, Drones, Girlfriends, Sport coaches, Construction robots & more):
1. Tennis robo coach.

I'm looking forward to seeing it play against nr1 tanked human player, similar to the great chess match between Deep Blue and Kasparov.

Most of the sport coaching in the future will be done by robots, that can do 1-1 coaching.

2. AI coding tools exploded the maker world, similar to social media turning everyone into a journalist or a blogger.

Rexan built an ai startup in 9 minutes (its an app that generates studio ghibli images for you) using @heybossAI

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It’s 2012.

I sold my bootstrapped startup, made my 1st mil.

I wanna build a unicorn, raise from big VCs, move to SF.

One day I meet a guy looking like a movie star.
This day is gonna change my life.

He makes a pitch:
“Imagine you sit on a couch with your girlfriend, she wants to watch a romantic comedy and you wanna see an action movie. You open this app, that has sliders for each genre from 0 to 100. You set Drama=40, Comedy=70, Action=60 and it shows you those movies magically filtered this way”.

I’m a big fan of movies, I watched every single movie from the top 500 on IMDB, and the guy looks like the next Steve Jobs, so I say: cool, I wanna join, I’ll be your Woznyak.

I invest around $100k and join as a CTO/CoFounder.
[The Mobile App]

We build this app in a few months and hire a team of people who watch every movie (10,000 movies) and categorize every minute of the movie into genres.
We launch the app and it goes viral.
Back then the app store was empty, people just find your app when you launch it.
We win the App awards, and we get into a 500 startup accelerator. The Startup Founder dream.
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