Excited to share a little bit of what I’ve been up to recently. Earlier this year, I left Autodesk after an incredible time developing foundation models for AEC. I've gone back to working with robots and have been building @eastworlds_io with an amazing team! Robotics is a notoriously unforgiving space. Slower feedback loops, hardware breakdowns, and the open-ended chaos of the physical world is painful. But that pain is what makes seeing a robot autonomously operate, recover and reliably work in the real world even more magical (even if it’s just picking up a bottle!). Eastworlds is building at the intersection of real-world deployment, data, models, and hardware. In particular, we're interested in rapid fuss-free robot deployments and high quality robot data from those real-world deployments. This simple model trained to reliably pick up bottles demonstrates our evaluation setup and validation of the data collected on the deployment and data platform we have been working on. We're privileged to work with early deployment partners in Asia who are equally excited about robots and being part of building the future and pushing the frontier of general-purpose robots and AI models that operate in the physical world. Looking forward to sharing more soon. If you’d like to chat or are interested in working together (esp. if you want real-world data or want to deploy and evaluate your robot models in the real-world on real use-cases), reach out!