Success! 🍎🤖 I can now control Unitree robots on... a Mac Mini M4 running macOS with a simple tweak! The unitree_sdk2_python ( thread implementation isn’t essential—getting the DDS subscriber and publisher to work is enough. I replaced Unitree’s Linux thread logic with a simple Python while loop for sensor reading and robot control. Here’s a video of me controlling a Go2 robot on macOS (M4 Mac Mini) using a Python script for low-level control and sensor reading.show more

This guy from China makes $12,500 a month walking... around crypto conferences with a backpack and a Mac Mini inside it. The setup is a Mac Mini running OpenClaw on a CUKTECH 10 Mini battery. Every other creator at these events waits until they're back at the hotel to process and upload. By then the alpha is gone and the thread is late. His portable AI catches keynote audio on the spot, extracts what matters and posts while everyone else is still in the room listening.show more

🥽 Want to use your new Apple Vision Pro... to control your robot? Want to record how you navigate / manipulate the world to train a policy? I developed an app for VisionOS that can stream your head / wrist / finger movements over WiFi, which you can subscribe on any machines using a simple python library. 🧵[1/6]show more

Watch Max, our VP of Customer Success, transform his... workspace with Apple Mac mini — with it's compact design and powerful M4 chip, his ordinary desk is now a creative hub.💡How are you stepping up your workspace for 2025? #smallbusinesssaturday #shopsmallsaturdayshow more

A HARDWARE MODDER BOLTED A BATTERY PACK ONTO A... $599 MAC MINI M4 AND TURNED A DESK SERVER INTO A BACKPACK AI RIG THAT RUNS FOR EIGHT HOURS WITHOUT A WALL OUTLET he posts a video of the mac mini with a slim battery module clamped to the side, USB-C plugged into the back. no power brick, no outlet, just the 10 to 30W draw of the M4 chip pulling from a 20,000mAh bank. a full work day on one charge. this is not a portable laptop trick. it is a desk-class AI server that fits in a sling bag the same $599 mac mini i recommended in last week's article as the silent default, now untethered. pair it with a mobile hotspot or a Starlink mini and you have a fully off-grid LLM stack that answers questions in a forest, on a plane, in a power outage. the model lives in the box, the battery powers the box, that is the whole stack this is not a gadget. it is the first time the words "AI server" and "fits in your bag" belong in the same sentenceshow more

Struggling with your low point control? Hitting behind the... ball and not getting that ball first, turf second? Try this simple drill out! Grab a towel and place roughly a hand width behind the ball. Work on getting your low point forward by not hitting the towel. Simple but effective drill for you to try 👊🏼show more

Here's a video of Bertie running, and a few... other photos worth sharing. Thanks for reading through this thread, I want to do more of this where I explain all the work that goes into these models.show more

Pi Ventures-Backed OpenMind Opens Waitlist For Humanoid Robot Control... Pi Network (Pi Network) Ventures backed OpenMind (OpenMind) has opened the waitlist for Instabody, a platform that lets users remotely control a real humanoid robot. The company said users can see the world through the robot's eyes and directly control its movements. It believes giving people the controls will help shape how robots evolve. OpenMind previously launched a robot app store built on its OM1 operating system, allowing developers to add new skills to humanoid and quadruped robots.show more

This is the power of YOLO, trained on a... laptop for ~1 hour, with a Kaggle dataset. Oh, and just ~100 lines of Python. I can make a startup on this and it took me literally a couple of hours.show more

MARCUS CHEN STACKED 30 MAC MINIS INTO AN AI... SERVER FARM. ONE $599 MAC MINI REPLACES YOUR $200/MONTH CLAUDE CODE BILL WITH $3 IN ELECTRICITY two months ago a developer posted his claude code bill on reddit. $170 in 10 days. someone replied "i bought a mac mini m4. haven't paid anthropic since." apple stores ran out of mac minis the same week the m4 chip has 120 gb/s memory bandwidth and unified memory architecture. cpu and gpu share one pool so the model loads once and both read from it. a $599 mac mini runs ai faster than a $1,500 windows pc with a discrete gpu since january 2026 ollama supports the anthropic messages api format. claude code connects directly to your local mac mini with one environment variable. same interface, zero api costs, $0 per request a heavy developer pays $459 a month across claude code max, chatgpt pro, gemini, cursor and copilot. that's $5,508 a year. the mac mini pays off in 3 months and runs on $3 in electricity after that uber rolled out claude code to 5,000 engineers and burned through their $3.4 billion 2026 ai budget in 4 months. the people who own the hardware in 2026 are going to look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article belowshow more

BaBot: The Ball-Balancing Robot - Real-time PID control on... a 2-axis platform, powered by a microcontroller using the same chip as an Arduino. - Precision servos and IR sensors track the ball with speed and accuracy. - Perfect for learning control systems, teaching robotics, or showing off your engineering skills. - Fully open-source & ready to build at Video Credit: Johan Link #engineering #technology #robots #roboticsshow more

MIT ROBOT THREAD PERFORMS BRAIN SURGERY WITH PRECISION Neuroscience... just leveled up. MIT built a magnetic thread robot that can slip through the brain’s delicate vessels to clear deadly clots without opening the skull. No scalpels, no invasive drilling—just control, precision, and futuristic tech guiding a thread where human hands can’t go. A real step toward safer, faster brain surgery. Medicine isn’t just healing anymore, it’s engineering miracles at the smallest scale. Source: the.blacklist.bureaushow more

Xiaomi’s robot just got handed two harder jobs at... its EV factory. 🤖 It already hits 98% on self-tapping nut loading. Now it’s sorting large, flexible center-console panels and folding totes — both at 90%. The bigger step isn’t the numbers. It’s the control stack: whole-body reach, bimanual regrasping, active compliance, precise fingertip control, and multi-robot coordination. From one station to several. From doing a task to coordinating with other robots. That’s the real shift.show more

From simulation to reality 🤖 Robotics creator Skyentific built... a walking bipedal robot using a simulation-first approach to design, test, and iterating in virtual environments before deploying in the real world. Powered by the NVIDIA Isaac platform and NVIDIA Jetson for on-device AI and control. 📖 #NationalRoboticsWeekshow more

When Ghostty detects a password input prompt, it now... changes the cursor to a lock and on macOS enables the secure input API. When the secure input API is enabled, we show a neat, animated icon that explains what's going on when clicked. Another example of native UI wins (imo). Secure Input is the macOS system API that prevents accessibility APIs from reading your keystrokes, so things like screen recording software and so on can't read your passwords. Other terminals on macOS support secure input. I think only iTerm also supports secure input on password detection. So as a disclaimer, I'm not trying to claim this as a huge innovation, I just think our implementation is nice. 😊show more

You pretrained a robot policy on millions of camera... frames. Now you want to add a force sensor. Do you really have to retrain on everything from scratch? MuSe adds a force-torque sensor to a frozen vision-only policy using a tiny amount of contact data. - lifts contact-rich task success (peg insertion 60% to 87%, vase wiping 33% to 77%) - fuse the new sensor both early (shared token space) and late (cross-attention), train the policy as a world model that predicts future video, future force, and actions together, and replay old vision-only data with the force input masked to prevent forgetting. - adding new sensor modalities to pre-trained World Model can be cheap & improve performance significantlyshow more

hi all, excited to join! i'm building an expressive... mini "shoggoth" robot which will eventually be hooked up to gpt4o realtime voice. i'm currently working on the low-level policies, which are trained in a mujoco simulation with RL. to delay working on raw-pixels for now, i trained a pose-estimation model using deeplabcut and triangulate the position in 3d space using the stereo cameras. eventually, i'll use gpt4o's tool calling capabilities to activate several of these policies (closed and open loop) based on the dialog flow! captions: manual actuation of the tentacle / 3d pose estimation / target designshow more

This sweet video illustrates several important lessons for parents... and caregivers when it comes to reading with infants and toddlers. What can we learn from it? Take a moment to watch (sound on) and then let’s unpack it a bit in the thread below. 🧵show more

Welcome to the official PathOn Robotics 'Testing Facility' (aka... the robot gym). Also known as the corner of my basement right next to my gym. We've been running our custom sensor/software on the Go2 for our initial GTM. Bypassing the factory brain and injecting an enterprise-grade OS requires zero fancy office space—just a clear floor, a bright light, and absolute focus. Hyper capital-efficient build mode. Let's keep shipping.🤖🛠️show more

If you watch the latest Optimus dancing video in... slow motion, you’ll notice that it’s not just dancing, but it’s hopping and balancing on one foot. Also, the string in the back isn’t even holding Tesla Bot up! This level of dynamic balance and control is EXTREMELY difficult to achieve for a humanoid robot. What Tesla is doing right now with Optimus is years ahead of what people realize.show more

🚨Breaking: Rocket’s new builder is wild I typed a... simple prompt and got a live landing page for the Atomic Habits book. it gave me: → a public mini summary → free habit tracker download → signup form for a 30-day challenge you can do the same with your fave book:show more