Chris Paxton
@cpaxton.bsky.social
AI, robotics, and other stuff. Currently AI @ agility robotics
Former Hello Robot, NVIDIA, Meta.
Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/
All opinions my own
Former Hello Robot, NVIDIA, Meta.
Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/
All opinions my own
Same robot. How it goes. They arent there yet but you can see the shape of it
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Same robot. How it goes. They arent there yet but you can see the shape of it
This is a lot of robots (UBTech)
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is a lot of robots (UBTech)
This also contains perhaps my first piece of criticism of American government policy and im curious if those in the know think I am correct
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This also contains perhaps my first piece of criticism of American government policy and im curious if those in the know think I am correct
Why not everything in manufacturing is automated (yet)
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Why not everything in manufacturing is automated (yet)
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Autonomous electric truck
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Autonomous electric truck
from the author of this graph. the housing crisis is a crisis of standards
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
from the author of this graph. the housing crisis is a crisis of standards
Houses are partly way more expensive now because they used to be terrible
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Houses are partly way more expensive now because they used to be terrible
a blog post idea that i have been thinking about for a while (will post tomorrow)
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
a blog post idea that i have been thinking about for a while (will post tomorrow)
I have long suspected that part of why ai tools have taken off for coding is that they make it more fun, even if they cost you time!
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I have long suspected that part of why ai tools have taken off for coding is that they make it more fun, even if they cost you time!
My favorite part of Facebook is the Amazon astro owners Facebook group. All these people just love their terrible little robots
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My favorite part of Facebook is the Amazon astro owners Facebook group. All these people just love their terrible little robots
Pixels to predicates: learn about symbolic world models on our podcast open.substack.com/pub/robopape...
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Pixels to predicates: learn about symbolic world models on our podcast open.substack.com/pub/robopape...
Impressive new robot hand from khyber labs
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Impressive new robot hand from khyber labs
New podcast episode on pixels to predicates for zero-shot transfer of robot skills to new goals/settings -- coming soon
with Nishanth Kumar of MIT
project site: pix2pred.csail.mit.edu
how do we learn operators/skills that we can reuse for planning, from just pixels?
with Nishanth Kumar of MIT
project site: pix2pred.csail.mit.edu
how do we learn operators/skills that we can reuse for planning, from just pixels?
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
New podcast episode on pixels to predicates for zero-shot transfer of robot skills to new goals/settings -- coming soon
with Nishanth Kumar of MIT
project site: pix2pred.csail.mit.edu
how do we learn operators/skills that we can reuse for planning, from just pixels?
with Nishanth Kumar of MIT
project site: pix2pred.csail.mit.edu
how do we learn operators/skills that we can reuse for planning, from just pixels?
So like what happened here
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So like what happened here
Trying to figure out what songs my toddler is singing is my new AI benchmark
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Trying to figure out what songs my toddler is singing is my new AI benchmark
We used to be a society
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We used to be a society
We are heading towards some absurd Disney future where everything is an adorable robot with a personality and I love it
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
We are heading towards some absurd Disney future where everything is an adorable robot with a personality and I love it
It was a huge honor to work with Evan and turn one of my blog posts into an IEEE spectrum article! I feel like almost a real writer now. spectrum.ieee.org/robots-foldi...
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It was a huge honor to work with Evan and turn one of my blog posts into an IEEE spectrum article! I feel like almost a real writer now. spectrum.ieee.org/robots-foldi...
Figure 02 working in BMW plant. they did this every day for months and contributed to the production of tens of thousands of cars.
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Figure 02 working in BMW plant. they did this every day for months and contributed to the production of tens of thousands of cars.
a capable robot can be so cheap now github.com/liyiteng/Alo...
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
a capable robot can be so cheap now github.com/liyiteng/Alo...
less ridiculous version
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
less ridiculous version
yeah these guys are taking pre-orders now for basically a pixar lamp buddy
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
yeah these guys are taking pre-orders now for basically a pixar lamp buddy
Reinforcement learning for walking robots with Chong Zhang
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Reinforcement learning for walking robots with Chong Zhang