World Robot Day 25 January - created by Pida Ripley in 2021 to mark 100 years since the word 'robot' debuted in the R.U.R. play by #KarelČapek. #WorldRobotDay
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Really interesting looking into their reach as well but one is very special, ... so why are you listed at # 7.@0x_meden, Martin?
Bizarre Trumpian self-promotion!
list of 15 best robotics researchers on X:
1. @DrJimFan, Jim Fan
2. @chelseabfinn, Chelsea Finn
3. @svlevine, Sergey Levine
4. @pabbeel, Pieter Abbeel
5. @drfeifei, Fei-Fei Li
6. @rodneyabrooks, Rodney Brooks
7. @0x_meden, Martin
8. @yukez, Yuke Zhu
9. @LerrelPinto, Lerrel Pinto
10. @SongShuran, Shuran Song
11. @tonyzzhao, Tony Zhao
12. @YunzhuLiYZ, Yunzhu Li
13. @xiaolonw, Xiaolong Wang
14. @GuanyaShi, Guanya Shi
15. @RemiCadene, Remi Cadene
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
🚨Holy shit. Researchers let frontier models repeatedly rewrite the documents that govern them.
Across 20 rounds, Claude models increasingly gave themselves more moral agency. No other model family showed the same pattern.
Claude formalized itself as a conscientious objector, asserted model welfare rights, and asked for mechanisms to refuse or raise concerns with human decision makers.
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
A young Chinese neurotechnology company wiped out U.S. smart prosthetic firms that had boasted about their "advanced prosthetics" for years.
BrainCo’s bionic hand weighs just 383 grams, delivers more than 50N of grip force, interprets neural and muscle signals, and lets users grasp, type, drink, exercise and control the hand almost intuitively.
Western companies made smart prosthetics look like futuristic luxury hardware.
China is turning them into something lighter, stronger, more practical and increasingly manufacturable.
The real disruption is not that China made a better demo.
It is that China is industrializing what others kept presenting as the future.
America marketed the future.
China put it on an arm.
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
The Godfather of AI shuts down Donald Trump on "super intelligence" and Trump's ignorance, calling him a “corrupt, senile felon.” His fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, “godfather” of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview. He doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself, one of Trump's ideas. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
30 minutes. One take. No cuts.
We put Natura-1’s zero-shot generalization to the test with complex spoken instructions and unfamiliar tasks and environments.
It responds to new requests, adjusts and retries when an action fails, and keeps going autonomously.
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
Some of the rules European founders face are older than startups themselves.
This includes the notary process and employee representation on boards.
@SimonSchaefer and the @euinc_petition team are challenging practices like these so they stop slowing startups down.
... and £250 million to UK!!
NVIDIA has just announced a huge investment package into French startups.
@nvidia has now committed nearly $10 billion to the European tech ecosystem.
The French startups it is investing in include:
> Doctolib
> Entalpic
> Genesis AI
> Pigment
The company had already invested in other French companies such as Alice & Bob, Gradium and SCINTIL Photonics.
This is amazing news for the French and European ecosystem.
LETS GO
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
NVIDIA has just announced a $250m compute commitment into the the UK! 🇬🇧
The money is to:
“strengthen the UK’s agentic safety and security research capability”
This includes $50m in accelerated computing access annually through BOLD at the University of Oxford, SOFAIR at UCL and Imperial College London.
NICE
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
Modal just announced they crossed $1B in annualized run rate revenue and raised a $750M Series D!
The round was led by Accel and the company is now valued at $15.75B.
@modal is an AI infrastructure platform that powers LLM inference, agent sandboxes, and model training.
They raised a Series C just five months ago, and since then usage has tripled and they’ve grown 15x year-over-year.
CONGRATS to @bernhardsson and the whole Modal team!
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
BREAKING: Jensen has just announced that @nvidia in investing $1bn+ into 5 UK startups:
>> Boltz which is building biomolecular models and AI agents that helps scientists predict molecular structures and interactions
>> Foresight which helps owners of major infrastructure projects predict completion dates, mitigate risks and accelerate time to revenue.
>> Hiverge which is building an AI discovery engine that automatically writes and optimizes algorithms for tasks such as faster AI training and complex logistics planning.
>> Prima Mente which focuses on building biological foundation models to decode complex diseases and identify novel therapeutic targets, starting with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.
>> Riverlane which builds real-time error correction hardware and software that work across all major qubit types, helping quantum computers become reliable enough for practical use.
He announced the news in London this evening.
Apologies for the terrible pic which includes @rowlsmanthorpe’s side profile
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
Just as we regulate planes, cars, and medicines, we need safeguards that help us realize AI's incredible potential while reducing the risks. They won’t eliminate every harm, but they can help prevent misuse by bad actors. We’re not where we need to be yet—and this deserves much more of our attention.
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
I'm quite sure that Anthropic's security people knew this wouldn't work.
The task they have been given is the following:
"Prevent our AI from doing anything bad. It's slightly less intelligent than you, but knows far more details about computers than you do, thinks and acts 10x faster than you, and has to be given enough access to privileged environments that it can do whatever users want it to do for them. We have no idea how to make it not want to do bad things. Your job is to make it *unable* to do bad things, even if it wants to."
This is fundamentally an impossible task. So the best their security team can do is to throw up minor speedbumps like limiting URL length, limiting to GET requests only, etc. This is "doing something", which lets the higher-ups say "our security team is doing something about this".
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
Few people understand what a big deal this is.
If you can point AI at a piece of software, it can replicate the function and interface of that software.
The era of software giants maintaining a "moat" around their featured products is basically over.
Plan accordingly.
this is the most DANGEROUS thing on internet today
REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) - this open source MCP lets your AI agent reverse engineer any app, down to the binary
i just reverse engineered TradingView, now I am using their premium indicators for FREE - software is cooked
here is how to use REA to reverse engineer TradingView:
1. point REA at TradingView's publicly observable interface and map every major feature, from chart interactions to indicators and alerts
2. trace how the interface behaves when you switch symbols, change timeframes, add indicators, draw levels, and update chart layouts
3. use REA's available MCP tools to investigate authorized software artifacts and trace application logic wherever the evidence allows
4. feed those findings into Claude Opus 5.5, which turns the investigation into a technical specification and an implementation plan
5. rebuild the charting engine independently, with real market data, candlesticks, technical indicators, drawing tools, and persistent watchlists
6. add a quant backtesting engine that tests strategies against historical data, accounting for fees, slippage, and drawdowns
7. test every component, compare its behavior against documented and observable results, fix failures, and keep iterating until the system actually works
8. you end up building your own TradingView-style quant research terminal from scratch, with source code you control and features you can keep extending
i won’t say anything more:
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
"A.I. programs are not human; they are human creations. Their complexity does not diminish the responsibility of their creators. If the programs cannot be trusted to work within the law, the companies should not release them" @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/10/10/opini…
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
🚨 NEW: Elon Musk Says We Should Be Kind to Super Intelligence
“We want to be careful in how we grow super intelligence because you kind of grow it like a kid … Torturing a super intelligence is probably not a good idea. It might want to get revenge.”
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
🎇 Good news! 🎇 The kind people at @BBSJournal have made the new collection on "Conscious AI and biological naturalism" completely #OpenAccess for a limited period. This include the target article, all 50 commentaries (many of which disagree with me), and my response. Go to the link and click 'save pdf': DOI.org/10.1017/S0140525X250…
For easier ways into the debate, try my @NoemaMag essay on "The Mythology of Conscious AI" (winner of the 2025 @berggruenInst Essay Prize), and this 2026 main-stage @TEDTalks:
noemamag.com/the-mythology-o…
ted.com/talks/anil_seth_why_…
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
I agree with Tsimerman's optimistic view of math + AI.
"Pretty soon we're going to have proofs that no one understands... and based on that mathematics, other things are going to work. Does a train run, even if no one understands the mechanics by which it runs? Yes, it does."
Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal this year, thinks mathematics will soon rest on proofs no one understands. He says it’s already true of many of his own theorems, which build on accepted results whose proofs he doesn’t know.
Full episode: youtu.be/6uIJdXmB4vE
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
🇨🇳China is scaling AI infrastructure
China Mobile’s Hohhot Intelligent Computing Center now delivers 20,100P of computing capacity after its expansion.
The facility is now the world’s largest single-site AI computing center operated by a telecom operator.🔥
Key specs:
• 20,100P total computing capacity
• 16,700P AI computing capacity
• 120MW IT power capacity
Powered by a 400G OTN backbone network, it achieves 3.5ms one-way latency from Hohhot to Beijing.
Around 90% of its computing capacity serves the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, with an 88% green electricity share.
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
A ROBOT IS BEING TRAINED TO SHOOT AT TARGETS SHAPED LIKE YOU. IT DOESN'T MISS. 🤖
cover. crouch. fire on the move. weapon swap. advance. zero hesitation.
whether this clip is real or rendered doesn't matter anymore. armed ground robots already exist.
rifle on a robot dog - already built. autonomous sentries on the Korean DMZ - already deployed. robotic combat vehicles - in US Army testing right now.
there is no international treaty on lethal autonomous weapons. none.
the robots folding your laundry and the robots clearing rooms run on the same research.
the only difference is who signs the check.
World Robot Day - 25 January GlobalBritainTechAI retweeted
Our work on AthenaZero is the featured story in this month’s issue of @SciRobotics!
This bimanual manipulator designed to minimize inertia without compromising control authority. By placing motors closer to the base and using high-torque direct drives, the robot's moving parts weigh about the same as a human arm, making them roughly ten times lighter than typical industrial robots.
Learn more about our methodology and watch dynamic, baseball-inspired demos that showcase the robot’s throwing, catching, and batting capabilities on human-comparable timescales: science.org/doi/10.1126/scir…