Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱 @ctwy Twitter profile

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

Startups are hard. But robotics startups are the hardest kind because they’re three companies in one: software, hardware, and the industry you’re actually in. It goes to follow that robotics startup founders are either extremely delusional or ridiculously competent. Discuss.

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@ctwy

3 years

@mattturck Sadly, no female exec (let alone one of color) in tech/vc could post a mirror selfie like that and expect to be taken seriously afterward. When they can, it'll be a sign of progress in a weird sort of way.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

I hope this follow-up is given as much circulation as the original. All any one of us can do in these situations is to listen, try harder, and hope that our actions over time can demonstrate good faith.

The Root

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5 years

Mayor @PeteButtigieg called @michaelharriot about the scathing article and the two actually had a productive conversation. Ok, maybe there were a few cusswords, but still:

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2 years

@DavidSacks I think he comes off reasonably good in the text. I draw a distinction between the writers, the editors (who write headlines) and the social media folks (who tweet). They’re different people with different success metrics.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics None of this is cutting edge. Hire some PhDs and go to some robotics conferences @Tesla . @iros2022 is coming up in a few weeks!

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

Women in Robotics is launching its first 90-day mentorship program this summer! We are looking for more mid-career mentors, especially those with 4+ years of engineering experience in robotics. Interested mentees or mentors can apply here by May 21:

Project Advance Application

Community for women working in robotics, and women who want to work in robotics.

www.womeninrobotics.org

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

@Jason @DavidSacks @peterthiel I would pay to see @karaswisher interview all of you separately.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

I am excited announce my new adventure: COO of @cafexapp , setting the standard for human-robot collaboration in hospitality, one cup of coffee at a time.

Taking the Scenic Route Pt. 2: On the Future of Work

This week, I embarked on a new adventure — a mission to help define the future of work in the age of robotic automation. In 2016, I wrote…

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@Rodericka @ssavett As someone who read the book, @PeteButtigieg has clearly been thinking and talking about these ideas for many, many years. I'm not surprised the physical writing took relatively less time; the book was "pre-written" in his mind! I suspect the only additions were new stats/polls.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@Rodericka @Lis_Smith Despite all the VP chatter, I have to admit that I still care more about what role @PeteButtigieg will play in the @JoeBiden administration.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

Thanks @ekp for dropping by @cafexapp today! We love your work at @projectinclude ❤️🤖☕

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

1 year

One of the most important lessons I learned in my career is that you get a lot more done if you don’t care about who gets the credit. The challenge is that early in your career it is kind of important to get credit to be promoted in larger organizations.

Shreyas Doshi

@shreyas

1 year

The biggest secret of influencing people is to make it their idea, not yours. This appears to take slightly more time than pushing your idea & asking them for their feedback. And it takes a lot more skill with asking great questions. But it creates fantastic buy-in. Just magic.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

“They’re going to keep focusing on which books to ban… and we’re going to keep focusing on what bridges to build.” - @SecretaryPete It’s so exciting to see competence married with excellent communication skills.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@sarahjeong As someone who was born in HK and now lives in the US, I would say that it's not something to "feel good about." That said, if forced to choose, I would definitely prefer to be a member of any oppressed group in the US than a Uighur person in China.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

Congratulations @Ken_Goldberg again on Best Paper Award!

Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

Now at the awards session track. Laundry-folding robot. I believe these are the students of @Ken_Goldberg .

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics Battery details. @Tesla claims this will be enough for a full day's work. @agilityrobotics Digit batteries last 3 hours for light duty. This doesn't pass the sniff test.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

Honored to be speaking just a half hour before @smithmegan on the main stage @lesbiantech . I'll bluntly cut through the noise on robots and articulate a vision for the future - a conversation I hope to continue with the 5,000+ LGBTQ women and allies at the #LWTSUMMIT .

Lesbians Who Tech & Allies

@lesbiantech

7 years

Our first 3 keynotes for the 5th Lesbians Who Tech + Allies Summit are 🔥 Kara. Sheryl. Boz. 🔥 5,000 lesbians, non-binary, LGBTQ women + our allies. Come and be with your people. You in?! 🙌 #LWTSUMMIT @karaswisher @sherylsandberg @badassboz

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@realmarcraibert “Hardware is the lifeblood of robotics. Your really need to take a holistic approach.” - @realmarcraibert

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

@Chas10Buttigieg @PeteForAmerica Thank you and the @PeteForAmerica team for organizing such a special evening. It felt incredibly fitting to be watching my favorite musical (for the third time) with a theater geek and future First Gentleman!

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

Thanks @chrismessina for adding @cafexapp on @ProductHunt !

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

We are lucky to have @PeteButtigieg managing infra, “prioritizing projects that would improve safety amid a spike in crash deaths, help to reduce carbon emissions and create a fairer transportation system, especially in Black and Hispanic communities”

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@Jason @amnestyusa One thing I'll add: folks in Hong Kong are being arrested for *literally* holding up pieces of blank paper. I don't know if most Americans understand how much worse it can get.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics @iros2022 Moved on to "full self driving" now. Zero demonstrated progress of actual autonomy re: Optimus. Pretty telling.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

@rodneyabrooks Unrealistic claims raise consumer expectations and make it harder for actual robotics/automation startups to thrive.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@polynoamial I’d generalize here to say that having parents who know how the game is played is useful in almost any profession (academia, finance, tech, medicine, etc.).

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

Kicking off the ethics debate on facial recognition with @mutalenkonde #EmTechMIT @techreview

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla The presenter mentions walking up stairs (not commonly found in warehouses), suggesting Optimus can navigate human-centric environments. Mobile manipulation in semi-structured environments is an unsolved problem. @DiligentRobots is arguably the leader in this space.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics Anand (another robotics engineer) is talking about controls in the real world and state estimation. This is coming off as a grad student/TA doing a class presentation for a bunch of undergrads. Feels very 101.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor Pre-programmed or tele-op? My vote is for the latter.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

"I think capitalism and entrepreneurship is the best operating system to run humanity... And it's the responsibility of the people who have benefited the most to stop grinding the people who have the least." - @Jason with @karaswisher . Always fun to hear these two together.

@jason

@Jason

4 years

Had a great time on @karaswisher ’s podcast

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics Felix, the robotics engineer, is talking about walking. Yes, walking can be hard. But are you launching features for the sake of features or to actually solve problems?

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

@DavidSacks It would be incredibly illuminating if you would write a blog post on how the sales-product dynamic (and relative team sizes) should evolve through each stage of growth (e.g. pre-PMF, early traction, growth, etc.).

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

I dreamed I was in an Office-style workplace comedy with Taika Waititi as a fellow product manager working on robots. Then I woke up and remembered I live tweeted all 3-4 hours of Tesla AI Day.

Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor Pre-programmed or tele-op? My vote is for the latter.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots The AI part seems to be conspicuously missing from Tesla AI Day. 😅 (Still more examples of how cool their actuators are...)

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

Congratulations @GeorgiaChal for Best Paper on Mobile Manipulation!

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

Love how @PeteButtigieg connects the “good trouble” of @repjohnlewis to the fair elections work @staceyabrams is doing with @fairfightaction in his new book “Trust”. @PeteForAmerica #wintheera #TeamPete

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@mckaywrigley So this may have accidentally nullified centuries of Christian theology. Never pegged Jesus for an agnostic or animist.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

For being the most inspirational person I've ever met, someone who I aspire to be just a fraction of everyday. #ThanksMegan #LWTSUMMIT @lesbiantech @smithmegan

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor @agilityrobotics @elonmusk "We believe the human form is really important." - what was the name of the woman again? How many hours does the battery on this thing last? I can't imagine it lasts much longer than @BostonDynamics Stretch.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

Looking forward to talking about how to prevent the robopocalypse with 6,000 LGBTQ techies and allies at @lesbiantech #LWTSUMMIT ! Join us:

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

Thanks @TravisCoClerk and all the awesome poll workers for such a well-run operation! Polls opened on the dot at 7 am! #EarlyVotingTexas #WhenWeAllVote

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

Insights like this are why every founder/exec should want @DavidSacks on their board and cap table. Don't over-index on valuation. Take the smart money.

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

5 years

Most of the funding and market cap in a SaaS category goes to the category leader. The best way for founders to lead a category is to define it. Here are my thoughts on how to do that.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics @iros2022 Claims that they'll have Optimus "done in the next few months" (?!?!) I think I misheard. What was the actual time frame?

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

A bright spot amidst the pandemic. Super thrilled that @andreaT and @dr_vchu have the resources to continue work on such an important problem in healthcare robotics. ASK: We're looking for a hardware director in our Austin HQ. Send referrals our way!

Hospital droid Diligent Robotics raises $10M to assist nurses | TechCrunch

Twenty-eight percent of a nurse's time is wasted on low-skilled tasks like fetching medical tools. We need them focused on the complex and compassionate

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

"One of the things that's like the comic book is this sense of fatalism. Everybody knows San Francisco is broken, but nobody thinks they can do anything about it. That's really the tragedy of it." @DavidSacks , in front of a @DCComics Hall of Justice background. So... Austin? :)

The All-In Podcast

@theallinpod

4 years

🚨 All-In Episode 12 is out! 🗳️ Election recap 📈 Why gridlock is great for the markets 💉 @pfizer 's vaccine, COVID endgame scenarios 📰 Trump's next move & much more Full show 👇👇 🔊: 📺: @chamath @Jason @DavidSacks @friedberg

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@snowflake4pete @Rodericka @ssavett @PeteButtigieg Precisely! I could literally hear @PeteButtigieg 's voice while reading (like a free audiobook). For anyone who's spent time listening to his speeches or interviews, they'll recognize his cadence instantly.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

Many people have asked if I’m going to leave Texas. Controversial opinion: pro- choice folks with financial means in anti-choice states should consider staying and pushing politicians for change. Money gives us options; we can make things better for those who can’t move.

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@ctwy

2 years

Moxi from @DiligentRobots is an example of a production-ready robot solving real problems at various hospitals today. Navigation, manipulation, and perception in a neat, useful bundle — all for a reasonable price. This is the type of tech that impresses me 😇🤖♥️

Last Call

@LastCallCNBC

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The pandemic has taken a toll on nurses across the country and many say they’re still feeling the effects. @AndreaDay reports on a startup’s creative new way to give hospital staff a helping hand.

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@ctwy

2 years

Day 3 of #IROS2022 Prof Radhika Nagpal on collective AI and swarm robotics

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

@DavidSacks @Basti This is why I would prefer to take money from proven operators (like @DavidSacks ) who have been in the trenches and don’t mind rolling up their sleeves again. Founders, take the smart money.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@Lis_Smith @JoeBiden There really needs to be a dedicated url for @TeamJoe donations coming from @PeteButtigieg supporters. Otherwise, how can we be sure that they'll recognize the efforts of @PeteForAmerica ? I'm holding out for another @PeteButtigieg email or a surrogate event. #ButtiBump #data

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

@AriannaSimpson @HipCityReg I suspect it might be for the same reason that there is a preference for being a POC woman on a panel instead of being on a panel about POC women. Diversity in panels, not panels on diversity. As a founder, you want to signal that you're "Building while being a..."

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots A lot of talk about joints and actuators. I think @elonmusk seems to be enamored of the @BostonDynamics approach toward robots (form over function) as opposed to what a lot of other folks are working on (function informs form).

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

Almost makes me want to create an @instagram account just so I can respond. 🤖☕💕

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@supergeek18

6 years

We have the best customers 🤩

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

"Can you remember the first moment when you realized life was not fair?" @space_enabled #EmTechMIT @techreview

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@lessin The third bullet point seems to be key. One does not need to be in the 1% to live a “good life”. Perhaps we should spend more effort on redefining “good life” and desensitizing young people to social media. Indeed, being born in the USA is already a win in the lottery of life.

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@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics @iros2022 I love all the buzz words. Neural networks. Synthetic data. Inference engine. Haven't heard anything novel yet.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

@ZerlinaMaxwell @ninasophia81 Whenever I feel compelled to respond online, I pause, read and ask myself, "What would @PeteButtigieg do?" @Lis_Smith @PeteForAmerica

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots I love that @Tesla has decided to create a five-fingered hand as opposed to a two or three-finger pincher or vacuum-based pick and place approach (like what @PlusOneRobotics does). There's a reason why all the warehouse startups don't use hand-like manipulation mechanisms.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

Also, I did say some nice things in my tweetstorm! My audience is other roboticists so we all know how much work goes into these things. Growing up in an Asian household, criticism is how you show you care. I tweet because I think there's potential. 11/

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@ctwy

2 years

@GaryMarcus @animesh_garg Things I liked: - sharing the spotlight with engineers - cool actuators and simulators - expression of humility toward the end when he admits they may be “barking up the wrong tree” in terms of technical approach - retail investors will eat this up, which is good for my portfolio

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@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor @agilityrobotics "They're missing a brain." - @elonmusk , referring to competitors' robots, is also claiming that Optimus will be autonomous and cost <$20k (BOM or retail price?). Uh.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

I believe in punching up, not punching down. My hot takes are reserved for those it won't hurt. I am but a mote of dust on a sunbeam. 😇 Why shouldn't I point out when a giant is wandering lost in the forest, leaving a trail of crushed seedlings in its wake? 🤖🌱 12/12

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

“The notion of doing nothing but spending time in each other’s company has, in a way, become a lost art.” - Prof. Ronald Sharp, as quoted in @vivek_murthy “Together”. @STurkle would agree.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

You see, when wealthy and influential people like Elon create unrealistic expectations and garner widespread media coverage, the average consumer *is* influenced. This makes life more difficult for researchers and startup founders who are solving actual problems today. 8/

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

Seems like my spicy hot takes last night were too much for some folks to handle! Here's the thing: one can appreciate something and point out flaws at the same time. It's called intellectual honesty. @elonmusk himself admitted they could be "barking up the wrong tree". 1/

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@ctwy

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@paulg

Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

Startups are hard. But robotics startups are the hardest kind because they’re three companies in one: software, hardware, and the industry you’re actually in. It goes to follow that robotics startup founders are either extremely delusional or ridiculously competent. Discuss.

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@ctwy

5 years

Declassified this January: China and Russia see anti-satellite weapons as a means of deterring any perceived US threat. @NGA_GEOINT #EmTechMIT @techreview

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@ctwy

3 years

@patrick_oshag Bought @Tesla at IPO and put the stock in my Roth. Told my friends on the finance team that I would hold for as long as they stayed in their jobs. They’re still working for @elonmusk .

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@ctwy

2 years

Day 2 of #IROS2022 Skipped the morning for some sight seeing but back for Maja Matarić on socially assistive robots

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@ctwy

2 years

@GaryMarcus @animesh_garg Things I liked: - sharing the spotlight with engineers - cool actuators and simulators - expression of humility toward the end when he admits they may be “barking up the wrong tree” in terms of technical approach - retail investors will eat this up, which is good for my portfolio

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@ctwy

5 years

On the definition of a good job: "A good job meets a worker's basic needs" including pay. Bach thinks $15/hour is insufficient. @kathrynsbach #EmTechMIT @techreview

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@ctwy

5 years

@Lis_Smith @PeteButtigieg That explains where he went!

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@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots Look, actuators are cool and all, but that's not the hardest part about creating useful robots!!! The new presenter is STILL talking about actuators.

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@ctwy

2 years

@realmarcraibert “I hope [Atlas] will be a good competitor to the Tesla bot. I don’t know if Elon is listening.” - @realmarcraibert 🤣 After a dancing robot video: “I don’t see Prof Hirose laughing so I’ll figure out if I’m in hot water after.”

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

Opening plenary @iros2022 in Kyoto. Prof Brad Nelson of @ETH_en on nanobots. I don’t think I’m ready for a talk on magnetic actuation and field gradients first thing in the morning. 😅 Text on the diagrams is too small to read. Jet lag isn’t helping either!

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@BotJunkie @MikellTaylor @agilityrobotics @elonmusk From a product perspective, <$20k capex with zero recurring fees isn't a great revenue model when all the robotics startups are moving toward RaaS models.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

Come join @cafexapp ! We're hiring!

Crunchbase News

@crunchbasenews

6 years

These Are The Jobs Early-Stage Startups Want Robots To Do

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@ctwy

2 years

“Shaping Robotic Assistance through Structured Robot Learning” - @GeorgiaChal

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@ctwy

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Testing the limits of the robot at the @Sony booth. Toward the end, I found the limits of its range of motion 😛 QA is important!

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

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@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie Not dissimilar from what @agilityrobotics is working on.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

A mini-primer for those curious about the context behind my tweets: - I have been a $TSLA investor since IPO. (Bitcoin since early 2014 fwiw.) - I am a techno-optimist who believes in UBI. - I believe in the potential of robotics and AI to positively benefit humanity. 2/

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

@EricaJoy @NatashaVianna Book swap/reading session.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

I had a lot of fun today kicking off @CSEdWeek ! Thanks for inviting me and I hope more students pursue computer science to help address problems in their community!

Bryan Twarek

@BTwarek

3 years

Thanks so much for joining the @CSEdWeek kickoff panel @ProfJosiah @ctwy and @sewpheeyuh ! You are such incredible leaders! Learn more about them & other #CSEverywhere heroes at . If you missed the live panel, view the recording at

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics @iros2022 @RoboticsCruise @Waymo Similar to Optimus, these presentations on "full self driving" feel like a lot of form over function, prioritizing cool demos over what's truly important (namely SAFETY).

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

@space_enabled @techreview Reading history books helps ensure we "move humanity forward and not repeat the mistakes of the past." @space_enabled #EmTechMIT @techreview

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

Deepfakes vs deepfake forensic scientists. Who will win? @HaoLi81 @techreview #EmTechMIT

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

Thanks for the shout-out @autostraddle @lesbiantech . What we should always keep in mind when we talk about robotics: human livelihood and dignity, especially during the transition to a new economy.

Lesbians Who Tech & Allies

@lesbiantech

6 years

This is great! 🙌

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@ctwy

5 years

On the parallels between wildnerness survival and navigating AI: "The empathy combined with awareness comes in extraordinarily handy." @tracyfrey #EmTechMIT @techreview

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

Farewell @thedesmondtutu . It was such an honor to spend time with you so many years ago. It was particularly meaningful to hear you speak about equal rights for members of the LGBT community, especially since this was before the US had fully legalized same sex marriage. 1/

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

10% of employment in 2030 could be in entirely new occupations. @McKinsey_MGI #EmTechMIT @techreview

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

I can't feel too bad that @iamjohnoliver @LastWeekTonight gave a better version last night of my two @lesbiantech #lwtsummit robotics talks (last year and on Saturday) than I did. He should have connected it to ballot access and gerrymandering though!

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

I know this isn’t top of mind for folks in the US but it’s hard not to feel sad for what was once a vibrant city that thought it might be able to change China more quickly than the CCP could change it.

POLITICO

@politico

2 years

Beijing has selected John Lee as Hong Kong's new chief executive. As security chief, Lee oversaw brutal police responses to pro-democracy protests and implemented the draconian National Security Law, landing him on a U.S. sanctions list.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

@Chas10Buttigieg What we miss is the (temporarily) lost opportunity of having a visionary leader that demonstrates relentless competence while balancing compassionate idealism and thoughtful pragmatism. Thankfully, @PeteButtigieg can run 10 more times and still be younger than our next POTUS.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

6 years

Credit where credit's due. I may disagree with @JaneKim on the robot tax and other policy matters, but I applaud how she handled this situation. Those questions were shockingly biased.

Kara Swisher

@karaswisher

6 years

I gotta say, score one for @JaneKim and score negative one for astonishingly oppo-fed looking list of questions she got from @sfchronicle

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

@zebulgar 2/2 Most people in my circle don’t seem to object to LGBT or infertile couples choosing donors from a catalog. If we want to avoid going down the path of eugenics, where do you draw the line?

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

4 years

Great nuggets from the convo between @Jason and @jtbold (whom I briefly met while COO at @getcafex ). 1. CEO needs to be a good steward of capital (aka FCF for the win) 2. Have a Plan B and a disaster/"cockroach mode" plan 3. Have a good culture in place before you need it 1/

@jason

@Jason

4 years

late-stage journalists are having a hard-time getting high-quality guests because they want to constantly dunk on folks... instead of having a real conversation. here is a real, insider discussion on Softbank and their approach to investing:

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

The startup ecosystem would be a little healthier if more founders and investors were on the record about startups that didn’t make anyone money. It would help normalize the disappointment that comes with a suboptimal outcome instead of forcing stakeholders to be “fake happy”.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

3 years

@FinSkirt @mattturck Funnily enough, I don't mind that as much. I'm pro body positivity with libertarian leanings so my mentality is more, "Glad you're feeling good about yourself. You do you." My issue is more with the fact that a woman doing the same thing would be treated very differently online.

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

5 years

Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio: "Humans are very robust... we can capture causal structures." @MILAMontreal #EmTechMIT @techreview

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Cynthia Yeung 🤖📦🌱

@ctwy

2 years

@MikellTaylor @BotJunkie @agilityrobotics @elonmusk @BostonDynamics @Tesla @DiligentRobots @PlusOneRobotics @iros2022 @RoboticsCruise @Waymo I don't doubt that @Tesla has a ton of data. They seem to be optimizing for labeling throughput. But this is actually quite dangerous when you're trying to address edge cases, which are rare by definition! Quality > quantity. I wonder how long it'll take them to realize this.

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