John Wander

Holy shit. A humanoid robot just cleaned an entire living room by itself. Figure AI just casually dropped the most insane robotics demo of 2026. Their Helix 02 system looks around the room, decides what's out of place, picks it up, and puts it back. Two months ago they showed it loading a dishwasher and that was already the longest autonomous humanoid task ever recorded. Now it's doing entire rooms. The robot runs on a single neural network, raw camera footage in, full-body movement out. No hand-coded instructions, it learned this the way a human would. Brett Adcock founder of Figure AI said it plainly: "A robot in every home." They're building a factory to produce 50,000 of these a year. Target price is about $20,000. That's less than a new car, for a robot that cleans your house every single day. Figure is valued at $39 billion backed by Nvidia, Intel, and Salesforce. This is a fully funded rocket ship. The progression is wild, dishes in January, laundry in February. Living rooms in March and at this pace, full home autonomy by year end isn't even a stretch. We're watching the iPhone moment for robotics happen in real time.

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics. “Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….” The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

This is the best articulation of pro-Western values that I’ve heard from a leader. Marco Rubio delivered it with both the directness and grace we sorely need. The West is special and worth fighting for, even if many Westerners have forgotten that.

The Helix team at Figure spent the last 12 months hitting wall after wall on what seemed like a simple problem: How do we give our AI model, Helix, control of the entire humanoid body (pixels in; motor torques out)? Core to our belief is shipping fully autonomous robots that can operate continuously at human speeds It was quite hard and painful, but now we have a neural network based stack we really want to scale This is a new chapter for us - it will unlock long horizon, whole-body tasks. It feels close; I really hope 2026 is the year

Holy moly! This Helix 02 robot from @Figure_robot looks amazing at manipulating complex physical tasks (for robots) and has long time-horizon attention. It works fully autonomously at real-time speed, so smooth! A few years ago, this video would’ve been pure science fiction CGI!

Humanoid robots are in their iPhone moment Robots will help manufacture more robots that will do anything for you in the physical world: do your laundry, make you coffee It will lead to a world of abundance

He’s absolutely NOT anti-vax & if they took 2 minutes to listen to him they’d know that. They just repeat their Big Pharma talking points. He explains his science based stance on vaccines here if anyone is interested👇

🇺🇸 CNN TO LAY OFF HUNDREDS AS IT STRUGGLES TO COMPETE WITH NEW MEDIA CNN is cutting hundreds of jobs and pivoting toward digital subscriptions, hoping viewers will pay $3.99/month for what they used to get for free. Some production will move to Atlanta for cost savings, but the layoffs won’t touch its big-name anchors—for now. NBC News is also bracing for cuts this week, with layoffs expected to stay under 50. The media world is shifting fast, with fewer people tuning into legacy media and more turning to X and other social platforms for their news. Source: CNBC

Deport illegal immigrants Deport politicians who let illegals in Deport politicians who want endless wars Deport politicians who want big government Deport politicians who gave us high inflation

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This platform is the collective consciousness of humanity. You are the media now.

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