Jim Fan (@DrJimFan)

The power of the Claw, in the palm of a robot hand. Agentic robotics is here! Today, we open-source CaP-X: vibe agents, alive in the physical world. They incarnate as robot arms and humanoids with a rich set of perception APIs, actuation APIs, and auto synthesize skill libraries as they go. CaP-X is...

That a *second* paper dropped with tons of RL flywheel secrets and *multimodal* o1-style reasoning is not on my bingo card today. Kimi's (another startup) and DeepSeek's papers remarkably converged on similar findings: > No need for complex tree search like MCTS. Just linearize the thought trace an...

Congrats to @Tesla_Optimus team on another stellar update! The video gives us a peek at their human data collection farm, which I believe is Optimus' biggest lead. What does it take to build such a pipeline? Optimus nailed all of the following: 1. Optimus hands are among the best 5-finger, dexterou...