Jack 🤖 (@JacklouisP) / X

Jack 🤖

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Jack 🤖

@JacklouisP

10 years in robotics. Robotics deep dives before they hit your time line. Investor @robostrategy. Not investment advice

London, England

Joined November 2012

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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Aug 18, 2025
Thread: How China bought Germany's robotics crown jewel Quick story: I recently called Kuka German in a thread and got called out - "Kuka is Chinese now." This sent me down a rabbit hole. What I found was straight out of Succession, and it reshaped how the West thinks about
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Sep 6, 2025
Another trade show demo - this time showing off how perfectly in sync these motors are. Thoughts on why you would need this level of control?
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Oct 26, 2025
> be Italian Institute of Technology > decide to build a humanoid robot in 2017 > base it on a 5-year-old child > give it a terrifying doll/death mask face > name it iCub > fast forward to 2024 > “you know what this needs?” > “JETPACK” > strap four jet engines to robot toddler >
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Oct 24, 2025
Should humanoids have tails? Current legged robots struggle with center of mass control and quick stabilization. Adding more DOF to legs gets complicated fast. Nature already solved this: Cheetahs, kangaroos, dinosaurs – they use tails for dynamic balance, sharp turns, and
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Aug 26, 2025
Carbon Robotics started with a simple question over lunch in Idaho: "What's your biggest farming challenge?" The farmer's answer: weeds. The solution? Autonomous lasers. Let's dig into @carbon_robotics amazing tech ⬇️
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Jul 24, 2025
📍 Robot localisation is the deca-billion-dollar problem no one talks about. Every mobile robot needs to know its location to within 2-5 cm. Sounds simple? It's not. Current solutions force an impossible choice: cheap but inflexible, or smart but fragile. This fundamental
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Jul 7, 2025
Actuators eat up 30-50% of a humanoid robot's BOM cost. Mass adoption? Not at these prices. This is one of the most persistent challenges in robotics, but @IMSystemsNL may have cracked the code with a novel drive. To understand it, we need to dive into the world of drives &
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Nov 1, 2025
5-axis CNC machining – but different... Most 5-axis machines use serial kinematics: stack a rotary A-axis on top of a rotary B-axis, mount that on linear X/Y/Z stages. Each axis carries the weight of everything after it. Heavy and slow. 🤖 The Sprint Z3 uses parallel
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Jul 23, 2024
I feel like we’re missing the fact that Disney is building us actual droids
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Aug 29, 2025
Thread: How Amazon's $775M Acquisition Accidentally Launched an Entire Industry Here's a wild story about unintended consequences: Amazon acquired a robotics company and nearly tanked the industry by removing it from the market. This seeming disaster helped catalyse a $40
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Sep 2, 2025
Do you need to place 50,000 components per hour with micron-level precision? – Lightning-speed placement - High-end systems achieve 50,000-200,000 components per hour. – Micron-precision accuracy - Purpose-built linear drives and specialised vision deliver ±25-50 micron
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Aug 26, 2025
First rule of automation - make your system as simple as possible but no simpler. The tending 'robot' of this wire bender is made up of one linear and one rotary actuator. Not pretty, not flashy, but if it gets the job done 99.999999% of the time with minimal maintenance
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Aug 13, 2025
What can robotics learn from watch design? - Hundreds of parts packed into a coin-sized case, - keeping time within ±20 seconds daily - enduring decades of use Mechanical design at its most optimal. Let's explore the mechanisms that make watches tick ⬇️
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Jack 🤖
@JacklouisP
Oct 7, 2025
Fresh. Welcome to the humanoid fashion show
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