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General Robots

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A series about making a general purpose robot company. Click to read General Robots, by Benjie Holson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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31 from 31 Jan 2023 to 6 Jul 2026
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2026 6

  1. Vibe-Cadding
  2. RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!
  3. RobotEra Snatches Silver in Sock Inversion
  4. Benjie's Humanoid Olympics: Part II
  5. Physical Intelligence Wins the Olympics: Deep Dive
  6. Physical Intelligence Sweeps Humanoid Olympics

2025 7

  1. Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks
  2. Congrats to IHMC Robotics for winning Bronze in my Humanoid Olympics: Doors Event
  3. Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games
  4. Single-Use Disposable Applications
  5. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics
  6. Correct vs Good
  7. Correct vs Good

2024 3

  1. Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs
  2. What's With All the Humanoid Robots?
  3. The Mythical Non-Roboticist

2023 15

  1. Writing Libraries for AIs to Use
  2. Bonus: Art Process
  3. Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots
  4. Dimension Hopper Part 1
  5. Tech Debt
  6. Nailing the Demo
  7. Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean
  8. How to Pick a Problem
  9. ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned
  10. ML for Robots, Specialization vs Overfitting
  11. So You Want To Do Robots, Step 4: Profit?
  12. So You Want To Do Robots, Part 3: How to Escape Pilot Purgatory
  13. So You Want To Do Robots, Part 2: What do you need to invent?
  14. Why Build a Robot Company?
  15. Coming soon