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
Unbelievably lazy journalism
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Unbelievably lazy journalism
Humanity as a service
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Humanity as a service
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
People are increasingly relying on AI as friends, companions, and therapists, and a new wave of ever more humanlike machines is coming. Moravec's paradox: AI companions are more feasible than AI doing your chores
open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
10% of their revenue. meta made $16 BILLION on fraud last year. and because these were a paid service that means that far more than $16 was lost by those defrauded
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
10% of their revenue. meta made $16 BILLION on fraud last year. and because these were a paid service that means that far more than $16 was lost by those defrauded
guys we were literally just talking about this
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
guys we were literally just talking about this
Another shot of the xpeng robot. really surreal stuff.
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Another shot of the xpeng robot. really surreal stuff.
A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
Not a fan of this kind of shit tbh
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Not a fan of this kind of shit tbh
Another good one from the pope
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Another good one from the pope
Words to live by tbh
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Words to live by tbh
Flying car from xpeng
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Flying car from xpeng
Robot from animo robotics going at 1 m/s and not crushing a blueberry. Speed+safety at once are more impressive than another dancing humanoid video
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Robot from animo robotics going at 1 m/s and not crushing a blueberry. Speed+safety at once are more impressive than another dancing humanoid video
New robot whole body teleoperation stack from unitree
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New robot whole body teleoperation stack from unitree
Xpeng team is trying so hard to prove this thing is real because so many people doubt them right now. Must be a great feeling, they nailed it
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Xpeng team is trying so hard to prove this thing is real because so many people doubt them right now. Must be a great feeling, they nailed it
Year of the agent etc etc
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Year of the agent etc etc
Kimi K2 looks awesome
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Kimi K2 looks awesome
Proving the xpeng iron really is a robot
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Proving the xpeng iron really is a robot
TWIST 2 from Yanjie Ze at Amazon FAR. Fast high quality teleop for humanoids, and its open source: yanjieze.com/TWIST2/
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
TWIST 2 from Yanjie Ze at Amazon FAR. Fast high quality teleop for humanoids, and its open source: yanjieze.com/TWIST2/
Quick notes on a conference I really enjoy every time I've gone (twice) open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Quick notes on a conference I really enjoy every time I've gone (twice) open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Teaching 1x NEO to cook
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Teaching 1x NEO to cook
Oh we are cooked aren't we
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Oh we are cooked aren't we
New humanoid from xpeng giving a tour of HQ.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New humanoid from xpeng giving a tour of HQ.
Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-...
Video is autonomous
Video is autonomous
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-...
Video is autonomous
Video is autonomous
Agibot "Longcheer" real world reinforcement learning system. This will allow modern ai (meaning vision based autonomy) to be deployed at scale doing useful labor, at last
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Agibot "Longcheer" real world reinforcement learning system. This will allow modern ai (meaning vision based autonomy) to be deployed at scale doing useful labor, at last
The openai drama makes Mira Murati look... really sketchy. And honestly just no one comes off looking great here
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The openai drama makes Mira Murati look... really sketchy. And honestly just no one comes off looking great here
The gripper in question
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The gripper in question