We did incredible engineering to do something incredibly stupid. Last night at @sushitrash's show at @ChaseCenter, our humanoid raised a middle finger to Joji and all of San Francisco — in front of 15,000 people. In 4 hours, we fixed a broken robot hand, designed and manufactured hand mount, retargeted my motion from video using Ultimate Bots Studio and deployed with the latest NVIDIA machine learning policy live on stage. For over a year we've been putting humanoid robots into the most unpredictable environments there are — live crowds, every week — with zero injuries or significant accidents. I'm proud to work with @_patrickrose and @emerson who have the engineering depth and the audacity to take impossible projects and deliver them. Some may say it's not serious or complex enough, a waste of time. I believe an important part of integrating robots into society is making them part of our social norms — teaching them how friends may talk to each other, not a sterile idea of the world. Most people only meet robots through headlines, and fear grows in that distance. Seeing a humanoid live — dancing, fighting, flipping you off — turns that fear into curiosity. That's why we put them in front of crowds and hand them over at our events and hackathons, where anyone can train one themselves the way they want. I'm happy every time someone walks out as a friend of the robots. San Francisco is the craziest city in the world and I love it. It's the only city where you can meet people and build projects this audacious. We love you San Francisco, and FUCK YOU!

Training robots just got TikTok easy. Ultimate Bots Studio lets you make dances, gestures, full motion flows in 3 easy steps: 1) Upload a video → create a motion 2) Stitch motions → build a dance 3) Export to robot and share with community Try it -> link in the comments

Yesterday we held the UFB Ghost Trials at @CalHacks Hack Nights — hands-on trials where students learned to retarget motions from videos, train motion imitation policies (BeyondMimic) in mjlab, then competed in sim + real robot deployments! This is about making advanced humanoid training accessible to students everywhere — not just labs. Top teams impressed, making progress towards permanent placement in the league. Congrats to team Molt, Justin and Alice, for taking the win 🚀🤖 Shoutout to @kevin_zakka (creator of mjlab — the backbone of our sim training) and massive props to @UFBots tech team: @emerson @_patrickrose and @DDobas for powering this and pushing the frontier forward! Video of sim showdowns, real deployments, and winners below 👇