
Foundation for Physical AI @Mapped
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Sensor Fusion in action.
Multiple sensors. Different coordinate frames. Different confidence levels. One continuously updated live world model of where people, vehicles and robots are — and how they’re moving.
@Mapped is the spatial foundation Physical AI needs.
.@Mapped now has Sensor Fusion: one live world model for every person, vehicle and robot in a site.
UWB, BLE, Wi-Fi, cameras, GNSS, odometry, IMUs and more become a single canonical pose — giving Physical AI a real-time understanding of the world around it.
Great write up by @loopingrage about how it works, why we built it, and how Sensor Fusion turns fragmented real-world signals into a live world model for Physical AI:
blog.mapped.com/introducing-…
Great write-up by @tecoker on one of the hardest problems in Physical AI: giving powerful AI systems a reliable, scalable way to understand the real world.
Ingesting, synchronizing, moving, storing, and standardizing physical-world data in near real time has always been hard. The scale and velocity of data coming from robots and autonomous systems makes it much harder.
We recently extended @Mapped's foundation with spatial intelligence and sensor fusion for robotics and autonomous systems, creating a common model spanning building systems, people, sensors, geometry, location, and motion.
1/ Robots have a data problem.
Every major data wave has created infrastructure companies designed to handle the specific use cases of that era. Relational. Web. Real-time.
Physical-world data is next. Who defines its stack is still up for grabs.
Essay for @felicis: felicis.link/Drumsjx
In case you were wondering what letting the labs train from your AI input, output, and data is worth, $META just made it clear on their price sheet for muse spark 1.3
Choose wisely...
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“The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive.”
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33 pages of utter nonsense in "The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act" (Initiative 25-0024)
vs
1 page here
If you haven't read Initiative 25-0024:
oag.ca.gov/system/files/init…
Another fantastic article by @dropalltables
I wonder how 💰💰 @OpenAI burns through <ENTER> being the "submit my query" key in ChatGPT instead of inserting a new line into the query?
Seems like after you do SHIFT+ENTER once in @ChatGPTapp, all subsequent ENTER presses should just be new line.
This is pretty cool, but as a likely consumer, I hope @jobyaviation adds a parachute to the top like @flyarcher.
I understand it has redundancy for all moving parts, but what if the electronics go to 💩, or it clips another aircraft?
businessinsider.com/joby-arc…
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