Benjamin Gibbs @BGGthoughts Twitter profile

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

A robot arm consumes 21,950 kWh annually, on average. If we wanted just 1M more robots making things in the USA, we would need nearly 22B kWh just for the robots. Now imagine we wanted to reindustrialize more. Our grid is barely keeping up today. Nuclear is the only answer.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Yes we do make $2.3 trillion worth of stuff in the USA...but why not make $23 trillion?

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

The US installed 39,576 robots in 2022. The US has at most 39,169 robotics engineers working in manufacturing. Coincidence? This isn't a call to just say we need more people studying robotics (we know we do). Robots and automation hardware needs to be easier to integrate and

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

7 years

@APompliano History is rife with people mocking the value of new platforms. Whenever I'm tempted to do so, I recall quotes like this: "Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires. Even if it were, it would be of no practical value." - Boston Post, 1865

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

7 years

My favorite quote from Three Body Problem by @liu_cixin

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

7 years

@APompliano Or this all time favorite: "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1877

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Same with robot arms.

Palmer Luckey

@PalmerLuckey

1 year

There is not a single computer manufacturer in the entire United States. We invented this shit, it should be our birthright.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

Even before the US Steel sale, the USA only produced ~80M tons of steel in 2022, or 4.2% of global production. By comparison, China produced 1.017B tons of steel, or 53.9% of global production. How much steel would we need to be producing to build a proper O'Neill cylinder?

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

If imagery like this doesn't get you super excited, I don't know what to say to you.

Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭

@StevenGlinert

1 year

America was the world’s greatest industrial powerhouse for 100 years. Time to reclaim the title.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@Scobleizer Batteries need to get a lot better IMHO. Solar definitely getting pretty cost effective. Nuclear generates power 24/7 though and we know it works. It'll take years for new reactors to come online, which is why I think we should be building now.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

We're entering the era of general purpose robotics. Robots are moving beyond the "mainframe" era of big, fixed installations. Companies are starting to deploy robots for applications outside of their traditional use in high-throughput manufacturing. Here are a few examples:

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

Cobots are the gateway drug to realizing you just want an industrial robot that's easy to use.

Sebastian Castro

@roboticseabass

10 months

So... there's a UR30 now! I guess even the world leader in cobots is realizing that picking up heavy things has a much bigger market share.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

11 months

Tooling and parts presentation literally make or break manufacturing operations, especially if you ever want to do anything with robots. Also true when humans are in the loop, but especially true with robots.

Cody James 🇺🇸

@codyaims

11 months

1 product could have 50,000 parts, each part may have 10-20 operations to convert it from raw material to finished Each operation requires a jig or tooling for repeatability

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

Here's another great example of the type of flexible robotic automation powered by our technology at @ReadyRobotics : one of our TaskMate systems with a @Universal_Robot arm tending a @FlexArmInc tapping arm. Setup only took hours, instead of days or weeks!

READY Robotics

@ReadyRobotics

6 years

Great article by @FlexArmInc and how they put the TaskMate R5 to work! #Robotics #Robots #Raas @Universal_Robot

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

The team at @drivecapital are the definition of contrarians: they were investing and building in Columbus before anyone thought it was hot. Also - if you're an industrial startup, the Mid-West is where you want to be, and you can't get much more central than Columbus

TechOhio

@TechOhioGov

6 years

Heard the good news? @VentureBeat names Columbus a city that "dominated" Midwest startup growth. With companies like @joinroot @BeamDental @hire_olive @CoverMyMeds @Wiretap @Nexosis and partners like @drivecapital @Rev1Ventures we're not surprised! 💪🙌

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

In 1979, about 580,000 computers were sold. Just over ten years later, more than 21,000,000 computers were sold. In 2019, about 373,000 robot arms were sold. I won't be surprised if a similar 36X increase is achieved over the next decade.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Seriously, let's automate everything.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

3 years

@paulg @KTmBoyle It's even stranger when you stop and think about the fact that so many truly groundbreaking lines of scientific inquiry happened outside the normal academic tracks. Einstein. Goddard. The Wright Brothers.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

So excited to announce our latest round of funding with @rayfega and @canaanpartners for as we take @ReadyRobotics to the next level!

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Build, build, build.

A Manufacturing Supercycle Has Begun

Thanks to a trio of bills passed in the past few years, investment in U.S.…

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

I'm biased (since I'm at one of their portfolio companies), but @EniacVC invests in companies working on awesome tech in interesting spaces. So check 'em out!

nihal

@nihalmehta

6 years

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

11 months

"If you're willing to not take 'no' as an answer, then anything is possible." - @johncoogan at the Defense Ventures Summit

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

The source of average electricity consumption of a robot can be found here:

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

ForgeOS is the bridge between bits and atoms. Case in point: our modular robotic palletizing system. ForgeOS controls the hardware, and the HMI running the READY Pallets app controls ForgeOS via REST APIs. We launched this in July and just closed the contract for the first

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

I've always thought this is an awesome idea, stoked to see it get some more funding.

Aaron Slodov

@aphysicist

10 months

Get in, we're exascaling the American industrial base. @atomic_inc closes $17M seed to reproduce human manufacturing skill via AI. The fundraising will continue until acceleration improves!

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

7 years

@Nnedi I just finished reading the first #Binti book...it's sooooooo good!!! I'm excited to read the rest of your body of work!

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@abemurray Thanks @abemurray ! Graphic is my own from gen AI plus a little old-fashioned Photoshop polish. My personal opinion is the idea funnel is actually bottlenecked by complexity in the following way...

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

Robot automation is accelerating.

Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

4 years

THIS––is the FUTURE of all SCIENCE. remote-controlled robots...🤖🦾 automatically doing experiments...🧪⚗️ designed by scientists on laptops...👨🏽‍💻 🧑🏾‍🔬 👩🏽‍💻 👩🏾‍🔬 run on a creative cloud––from anywhere... 💭 🌍 👇👇GENIUSES at @StrateosLab

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

This looks pretty damn awesome.

Fil Aronshtein

@FilArons

1 year

Exciting News! After months in stealth, we're introducing Dirac's BuildOS - the first AUTOMATED Work Instruction platform. It's time to change the way manufacturing engineers draft work instructions. Get access to BuildOS here: 1/9

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

"[Since 1974], 42% of public companies are venture backed, representing 63% of total market capitalization. These companies account for 35% of total employment and 85% of total R&D. That's pretty good for an industry that invests about 0.4% of GDP." - @skupor 🤯

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

11 months

@codyaims Tooling and parts presentation literally make or break manufacturing operations, especially if you ever want to do anything with robots. Also true when humans are in the loop, but especially true with robots.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

I'm really excited to share more details soon about the next version of Forge/OS launching this spring. It addresses the biggest unsolved problem in robotics today: fragmentation. Every OEM uses their own proprietary programming language. We're fixing that.

READY Robotics

@ReadyRobotics

4 years

Years in the making, Forge/OS 5 is almost here! This is the open, cross-brand, intuitive platform that will transform robotic automation.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

@nihalmehta @Hadley @EniacVC Every VC needs an anti-portfolio!

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@BGGthoughts

1 year

@Scobleizer I think at the end of the day, the right answer is we should be building as much solar and nuclear as we possibly can. We'll never regret having more power.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

Thanks @Forbes for recognizing us as a start-up to watch in the IoT space! Networking robotic systems together is an important aspect of building integrated smart factories, and just one of the capabilities available in our Forge/OS software platform.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

He's right. No real VCs in the medtech or biotech space touched Theranos. They're some of the most savvy scientists out there and no way could Theranos pass muster with them.

Lee Edwards

@terronk

6 years

Alternate narrative: Silicon Valley VC is actually a defense against this bullshit. Theranos and Fyre never would have gotten off the ground without dumb money from New York and Washington, and fauning coverage from New York/Washington media. Who will fund my documentary?

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

A big reason I love working with @EniacVC ... @vicsingh @Hadley @timy0ung @nihalmehta are true OG hustlers. You could not ask for better partners.

Hadley

@Hadley

1 year

Many don't grasp how much of a startup @EniacVC truly is. For 4 years, we hustled during nights and weekends without drawing a single dollar of salary. I think this journey gives us a very different perspective working with founders than most VCs who join an existing organization

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

I'm excited to see more and more companies building automation solutions powered by Forge/OS.

READY Robotics

@ReadyRobotics

4 years

Congratulations to Accufacture for launching their Forge/OS-powered AccuTask 700 and AccuTask 1500. It’s so exciting to see others building around Forge/OS to create powerful robotic solutions that can be programmed by anyone on the factory floor. No training required.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

11 months

This is the uncanny valley, but for writing. We have some deep-seated but hard-to-define capability to sense the lack of humanity.

Chris Albon

@chrisalbon

11 months

We need a name for ChatGPT style prose, because I swear I can identify it in the wild. It has a certain vibe. Like it was written by a golden retriever.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

7 years

This is creative destruction, a.k.a. Schumpeter's Gale, from Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter: the "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one."

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

@APompliano

7 years

Unpopular opinion: Automation by technology will actually create more jobs than it destroys

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

This is why we built ForgeOS at READY! We have real drivers for real industrial robots (FANUC, ABB, Yaskawa, etc) that just work.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

@amir @SFWeekly I find a subscription to The Information more valuable than to those with the closet Pulitzers.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Katherine Boyle

@KTmBoyle

1 year

Extremely proud to announce @a16z ’s investment in Castelion to shore up American hypersonic capabilities and bring peace through deterrence. 🇺🇸 This team moves faster than we ever thought possible. If you’re looking for an important defense mission where every single day

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

@Noahpinion The Invisible Hand strikes again.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Inventing our way out of big problems is the true human superpower.

Fil Aronshtein

@FilArons

1 year

Don’t let them fool you. We don’t need cheaper labor. We need smarter labor. Humanity evolves under time and labor constraints. We will defeat and surpass those powers who so badly want us to fail. 🇺🇸

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

The manufacturing sector is worth trillions, but technology solutions in the space remain highly fragmented.

Manufacturers' News, Inc.

@MfrsNews

6 years

2019: The Year Of The Manufacturing Platform via @forbes

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

This article perfectly encapsulates the state of the robotics industry today. We're entering the era of general purpose robotics, which is why we're working on Forge/OS: an enterprise-grade OS that enables anyone to program any robot arm with the same interface.

Evan Ackerman

@BotJunkie

5 years

From Mainframes to PCs: What Robot Startups Can Learn From the Computer Revolution

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

This is an excellent overview of the growth of cobots:

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

I see this truth every day in the plants that deploy automation. More automation leads to more people being hired as work increases at the plant. The best plants don't even fire anyone to begin with because they know how hard it is to find competent people in the first place.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

@mattocko @DrAnneCarpenter @armenvidian @vijaypande Having worked in tech transfer at a huge research university, I totally agree with @DrAnneCarpenter Most basic research discoveries either go nowhere clear, or take over a decade more of research only for them to still fail.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

@Noahpinion @cstross actually created one of the atypical dystopias in Accelerando with predatory machine intelligences ruthlessly focused on debt collection (amongst other things)

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

This is the way. Machines building machines has already been the unlock of the last three industrial revolutions that gave some of humanity an embarrassment of riches. We just have to keep doing it and go faster and faster and faster.

Beff – e/acc

@BasedBeffJezos

1 year

We have to build the machines that build for us. We need the operational and intellectual leverage of robotics & AI. It's the only way to really accelerate our scaling and efficiency.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

@nealasher Oh man if they think that Bosstown Robotics video is bad, wait until they discover the entire Terminator franchise.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@Noahpinion You sir, are missing out. The two OG seasons are amazing. Beautiful visuals, deep philosophy, killer fight scenes... all the things.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

This report raises many interesting points about the wave of automation sweeping through the economy, including the yawning skills gap being faced by many industries. The manufacturing industry has long felt the cost of this skills gap.

Steve LeVine

@stevelevine

6 years

Robots are "disrupting the balance of power, how we fight, stay alive, drive, work, shop." An @Axios special report.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

This has always been one of my favorite visualizations of our solar system. I wish there was one that zoomed out further to show the sun orbiting the supermassive black hole at our galactic center.

Brian Roemmele

@BrianRoemmele

1 year

Our eternal dance chasing the sun.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

Oh snap. This is a chance to work with some of the brightest deep tech seed stage VCs around.

nihal

@nihalmehta

5 years

HEEEEEYYYY NYC, my team @EniacVC is hiring an analyst. please spread the word far and wide! apply here 👇🏾

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

Totally agree with this sentiment and it's why we do what we do at @ReadyRobotics .

ARM Institute

@ARM_Robotics

5 years

"Every worker on the floor is filled with ideas, insights, perspectives and abstract creative genius that no machine and no software can duplicate."

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

11 months

@kscottz I don't agree that it's nationalism to want to strengthen the US manufacturing base, or to point out that certain critical items should be manufactured domestically, especially in the case of items used in national defense (like computers).

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

The sleeping giant must awaken, with renewed purpose and unshakeable resolve. Per this Politico article, we need to be manufacturing a LOT more domestically for defense:

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

The manufacturing skills gap continues to make it hard for factories to find talent.

IndustryWeek

@IndustryWeek

5 years

Faced with a wave of retirements, electric-motor maker Nidec tries "reverse internships."

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@JoshuaSteinman The disdainful apple crunching was the best part.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

@danprimack The founder runs a PR consultancy :

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@Noahpinion Always love seeing this. Have you seen Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

Once you create standardization at one level of your technology stack, those standard components become the building blocks of the next wave of innovations. This is why we've built standardized interfaces for robots and industrial automation with ForgeOS at @ReadyRobotics . It

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

Imagine a world where there are hundreds of millions of robot arms sold annually instead of hundreds of thousands. Computers helped us automate the organization of electrons at scale. Robots will help us automate the organization of atoms at scale.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Numbers for the robot installations comes from the IFR's World Robotics Industrial Robots 2023 report. Stats on the number of robot engineers comes from the US Department of Labor's O'Net Online database: Like all statistics, these job numbers are

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@droneshiphas The portion of US GDP attributable to manufacturing is $2.3 trillion.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

I don't ride motorcycles, but if I did, it would be this.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

The robot revolution isn't coming, it's already arrived, in a number of form factors, led by pioneers at places like @BuiltRobotics @anybotics , @Sarcos_Robotics . Great piece from @davidberreby for @NatGeo

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@Hadley They can't let Microsoft corner the market on inconveniently-timed updates!

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

@sethbannon In fact, when I used to do university tech transfer, we'd hunt for exactly those sort of people to become the technical foundation of new companies. And some universities include patent/licensing activity as a measure for tenure decisions now, not just publishing.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

3 years

To quote @FutureJurvetson : "robots, drones, satellites and self-driving cars are the kinds of things that excite me." Which is why I'm excited to talk with @rayfega about all things robotics tomorrow at 5pm CT / 8pm ET. Come join us!

Rayfe Gaspar Asaoka

@rayfega

3 years

Going to try something nerdy on @joinClubhouse this week. Join @BGGthoughts , CEO of @ReadyRobotics and myself for a conversation on all things #robotics , #industrialautomation , and #midwest #deeptech startups

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

You can now pair the @FlexArmInc system with a TaskMate from @ReadyRobotics using a cobot from @Universal_Robot to fully automate your tapping task!

Modern Machine Shop

@MMSOnline

6 years

A new customer had six aluminum plates, each with 600 holes that needed to be tapped. Other shops said it would take months. See how Little Enterprises was able to do it in a week.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Happy to stand corrected on this 😄

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

Only the paranoid survive.

nihal

@nihalmehta

4 years

@shl It's very hard to succeed if you think no one is out to get you.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

Could not agree more. Traditional SaaS will be shattered by AI. The future is innovation in atoms.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

Germany doesn't have this problem because their society doesn't look down on manufacturing jobs. We need to do better in the US. Sone of the smartest and most talented people I know work in factories.

ARM Institute

@ARM_Robotics

6 years

There are many pathways to a rewarding career. With 2.4 million manufacturing positions expected to remain vacant in the next decade, it's time to recognize that not all careers require a traditional four year degree.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

3 years

I'm so excited to be able to show everyone what we've been building!

READY Robotics

@ReadyRobotics

3 years

Windows ignited the PC Age. iOS unlocked the Mobile Age. Tomorrow, Forge/OS 5 unleashes the Automation Age. Join the Livestream Launch Event and experience the future of automation:

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Benjamin Gibbs

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1 year

It's not tool use that sets humans apart from other life. Chimps use tools. So do crows. Nor is it the building of structures. Bees build structures. So do termites. Nor domesticating other life. Ants herd aphids. It's the building of machines that ultimately sets humans apart.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

Here's another great example of a robot powered by our software, FORGE/OS. When you use FORGE/OS, setting up a robot is so intuitive that factories capture ROI with small production runs of a few hundred parts, instead of millions.

FlexArm & FlexCNC

@FlexArmInc

6 years

#Robotics in #Manufacturing featuring #FlexArm and @ReadyRobotics

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

I couldn't agree more.

Mason

@webdevMason

5 years

I think part of the reason so many US entrepreneurs are building companies where the product is software or new business models is that that's the stuff our culture seems to value. But we could *really* use more plays in hardware and industrial process improvement

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

There's good sushi, then there's AMAZING sushi.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

In 1830, a farmer could harvest 0.2 hectares of grain a day using a handheld scythe. In 1831, the same farmer could cut 2 hectares a day, a 10X increase. How? The McCormick reaper. Physical automation led to an explosion in productivity.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

7 years

"Science in the service of humanity is technology..." - Isaac Asimov via @BrookingsInst

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

@KennethCassel Arguably none of them? I am biased though since we make software that enables you to program industrial robots in a uniform, easy-to-use way. If industrial robots were easy to use though, my company wouldn't need to exist.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

@LieutBeard @bova_fett @Jason @MeltBarGrilled Melt Bar is also really good.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

I couldn't agree with this sentiment more. Automation tends to create more jobs in the factory than they replace and few factories actually let workers go. Instead they get re-assigned elsewhere in the facility.

Jeff Burnstein

@jeffburnstein

6 years

NY Times pushing robot tax based on the assertion that automation is designed “merely to take away jobs.” The real threat to jobs is the inability to compete. Robots help make US companies competitive in every industry, contributing to our strong economy and low unemployment.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

Can't stop won't stop.

Jeff Burnstein

@jeffburnstein

5 years

World record sales for robots as sector reaches $16.5 billion in investment - #GoogleAlerts

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

We're extremely excited to be bringing our easy-to-use Forge software to the industrial robots from @FANUCAmerica

READY Robotics

@ReadyRobotics

6 years

Our latest team memeber the @FANUCAmerica M-710iC 50 just arrived & we could not be happier! #Robotics #Manufacturing

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

This is awesome! I can't wait for this to be so ubiquitous that it's passé.

Ryan Oksenhorn

@ryanzip

1 year

The future is already here, if you know where to look. 24-hour timelapse of the world's largest autonomous drone delivery system, covering an entire country.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

6 years

Alright 2019, let's do this.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

10 months

I would also add to @kevg1412 's list: the Cohen-Boyer discovery of recombinant DNA that was patented and licensed out by Stanford in a very intentional way to foster growth of biotech industry...the very first licensee was Boyer himself for his little startup called Genentech!

Kevin Gee

@kevg1412

10 months

Very surprised by Naval's take here. Studying Silicon Valley history it's clear that tech is there for three major reasons (among others): 1) William Shockley moved to Palo Alto to be close to his sick mother. There, he set up Shockley Labs and recruited tremendous talent to

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

5 years

Things happen slowly, then all at once. Robotic automation is at a tipping point.

Mike Quindazzi

@MikeQuindazzi

5 years

The Age of #Automation and the #FutureofWork >>> #Infographic >>> @raconteur via @MikeQuindazzi >>> #AI #Automation #IoT #RPA #Robotics #BigData #DataAnalytics #4IR #Industry40 >>>

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

3 years

The first robot programming language was VAL: Variable Assembly Language, used to program the Unimate robots. Since VAL's launch in 1961, robot programming languages have splintered, with dozens today. This fragmentation holds our industry back.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

Automate everything.

Kim Taylor

@kimmytaylor

4 years

You’ve reached the knowledge economy when you’re fired up and motivated to automate your own job. If it scares you you’re not there yet.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

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@abemurray But I won't pretend that what we're building is a magic panacea for the whole industry, it's just one part of the toolchain. There are many other things that need to be improved, to name just a few more: 1. Simulation needs to be made much, much better. 2. Grasping for robots

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

4 years

@KTmBoyle @terronk @micsolana Groundhog Day. Which now that I stop and think about it, also explains why I loved Edge of Tomorrow so much when I first saw it.

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Benjamin Gibbs

@BGGthoughts

1 year

@abemurray Imagine you're a software developer and you want to get into robotics. You're used to a world where you can learn some APIs and push code that just runs on almost every PC or cloud instance out there. Then you look into robotics and what do you find? Endless, stupid complexity.

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