As Rocks May Think
Eric Jangby Eric Jang4 Feb 2026
If we consider life to be a sort of open-ended MMO, the game server has just received a major update. All players take note: consider playing differently. The world has changed a lot since 2022.
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65%Leaving 1X
Eric Jangby Eric Jang21 Jan 2026
Life update: I've decided to leave 1X. It's been an honor helping grow the company. I joined Halodi Robotics in 2022 (prior name of the company) as the only California-based employee.
Ultra Instinct
Eric Jangby Eric Jang27 Jul 2025
Visible light occupies a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, which spans radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.
Motor Physics
Eric Jangby Eric Jang31 Aug 2024
1X released a teaser video of NEO Beta to the world yesterday. You may notice that despite its agility, NEO moves quietly.
Questions about ARC Prize
Eric Jangby Eric Jang11 Jul 2024
ARC Prize is an intelligence benchmark intended to be hard for AI and easy for humans. With a grand prize of $1,000,000, it is currently the most popular contest on Kaggle. Most AI systems (e.g.
All Roads Lead to Robotics
Eric Jangby Eric Jang3 Mar 2024
robot [ roh-bot ] (noun) 1. A read/write API to physical reality 2. A source of training tokens about The Self Two years ago I left Google Robotics and wrote about the various career options that I...
Takeaways from DeepMind's RoboCat Paper
Eric Jangby Eric Jang22 Jun 2023
DeepMind Robotics published the paper "RoboCat: A Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation (PDF)" earlier this week.
Can LLMs Critique and Iterate on Their Own Outputs?
Eric Jangby Eric Jang26 Mar 2023
Avi Singh told me yesterday about a recent arxiv preprint, Reflexion, that proposes the following idea: use a LLM to examine whether the output of another generative model is "on the right track"...
How Can We Make Robotics More like Generative Modeling?
Eric Jangby Eric Jang23 Jul 2022
I recently gave a talk (YouTube) at the RSS'22 L-DOD workshop. Here's a lightly edited transcript and slides of the talk in blog form.