Chief Designer @1x_tech • ‘The Dar Sleeper of Technology’
Palo Alto, CA
Joined October 2020
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Do you see what I saw? Because I see a seesaw.
Superimposing two images we can find the pivot point using the perpendicular bisector of a chord theorem. The fulcrum is cleary slightly forward of the B pillar, not the rear wheels.
This implies a fulcrum near the center-of-gravity. Given the junkyard setting and the visible damage, this is probably a gutted junker with the engine pulled, which would shift the center of gravity back to where the pivot point is shown.
The car rests on its front wheels with a hidden fulcrum, and the rear wheels are already off the ground. As the robot tips the front up, the rear goes down. Watch closely and you'll see it lift too far, causing the rear wheels to bounce off the ground, as you see the front drops for a moment before the robot recovers.
The robot did not lift a car. It tipped a balanced shell.
The video suggests strength the robot does not possess.
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Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
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The robot in your home needs a designer – let us introduce you.
Dar Sleeper @radbackwards is Chief Design Officer at @1x_tech, where he drove major innovation in hardware and creative over the past two years. He spearheaded the design of NEO, 1X's flagship consumer home robot, and led a comprehensive overhaul of the company's branding. Prior to 1X, Dar held product and marketing roles at Tesla and had stints at Yeezy and StockX.
Dar will sit down with Ed Ludlow @EdLudlow, host of Bloomberg Tech on @BloombergTV and a correspondent in Bloomberg's newsroom, for a fireside chat onstage at the Artist and the Machine Summit this December in LA.
Question: When the average kid (6-12 yrs) of today finishes school, do they still watch TV on a TV screen? or is it primarily mobile across the board?
Humanoid Hub Conference Year One ☝️
Such an honor to be invited to speak and so grateful to be a part of the @TheHumanoidHub community.
Real Roboticist’s know Devang has been doing it for the love of the game since day one. He supported us when no one cared what we were building and to be able to support him years later as we all grow together is the best feeling on earth.
I almost teared up when a lady told me she flew from Honduras to hear my talk… major testament to the tensile strength of our communities fabric and all credit to Devang for creating the space for us all to connect.
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From a barn in Norway 12 years ago to Time Magazine Best Inventions of 2026.
Truly honored and grateful.
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I sat down with Ali Ansari (@aliansarinik), the 25-year-old solo founder and CEO of @micro1_ai, which just passed $1B in ARR.
It all began when Ali moved from Iran to the U.S. at age nine without speaking English, going from flipping textbooks to building one of the fastest-growing AI data companies today.
* Are experts training their replacements?
* How to teach AI subjective judgment
* Knowledge isn't static; we'll always need new data to align AI
* The robotics and real world data bottleneck
* The high stakes of selling training data to China
* Whether the AI economy can justify the infrastructure build-out
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
02:56 Growing up in Iran and moving to America
07:37 From eBay to textbook flipping
13:54 Building micro1 and the pivot to training data
19:39 Why internet data is the worst data
22:41 Are experts training their replacements?
29:27 Creativity, alignment, and subjective judgment 36:01 The robotics data bottleneck
45:11 Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Training Data
43:56 America selling data to China
53:56 $1B in 2.5 years
56:53 Can the AI economy deliver?
