Distributed query engine providing simple and reliable data processing for any modality and scale (github.com/Eventual-Inc/Daft)
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Daft retweeted
Grippers have landed in the office. 🦾
We’re dogfooding our own product to live in the same pain our customers do.
This was our first successful trajectory was captured by yours truly. I’m just glad I didn’t rip my coat
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Daft retweeted
VLAs ground language unevenly, and apparently in a consistent order...
We keep seeing VLMs fumble scene understanding in robotics.
According to the paper the order goes: color first, then object, spatial (left vs right), verb, size
The verbs come last.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.21582
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A teleoperated robot episode doesn't start when the recording does - the operator is still setting up while the camera rolls.
The robot's own joint positions tell you which frames matter without decoding a single pixel. With this method, trimming all of DROID - 500 hours of robot data - took 32 seconds on a laptop.
daft.ai/blog/cutting-dead-fr…
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The product is physical intelligence.
Systems that move and change things
in the real world.
Web engineering runs on server-grade hardware.
Cloud instances. Comfortable.
Physical AI runs somewhere else.
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Hand-pose annotation is the plumbing between raw robot video and a trained model. daft-physical-ai packages it into a single Daft UDF.
This is how it works: track_hands in daft-physical-ai passes a Daft image column and gets a hand-pose column back. MediaPipe (CPU/2D) or WiLoR (GPU/3D MANO), same schema either way. Lazy, batched, distributed — Daft handles execution.
On EgoDex: detect=100%, PCK@.1/.2/.3 = 49/84/96.
Try it: pip install daft-physical-ai
Check more use cases here eventual.ai/blog/announcing-…
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Daft retweeted
@daftengine is a compute engine as much as a dataframe library. You can run models with it, scale heterogenous compute, all with world class IO.
Vectorizing LLM or embedding operations across text and images is effectively trivial once you have the model downloaded.
Here's how that looks with @huggingface Transformers — local inference, no API key with Daft's AI functions: prompt, embed_text, and embed_image.
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Excited to announce: daft-physical-ai, a new Python data processing library for physical AI.
We're starting with two use cases: hand tracking and reward scoring - essential steps for making robot data useful for training.
daft.ai/blog/announcing-daft…
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Daft retweeted
Some founders find their calling at 30.
Sammy found his at 12.. and it led to Eventual.
Why is he the one to do this?
Number one: he loves robots.
He's a Transformers guy.
But even before that, at 12 years old,
he was building robotics.
He's much older than 12 now.
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Some founders find their calling at 30.
Sammy found his at 12.. and it led to Eventual.
Why is he the one to do this?
Number one: he loves robots.
He's a Transformers guy.
But even before that, at 12 years old,
he was building robotics.
He's much older than 12 now.
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He still is that kid.
Then came the decade.
Berkeley, where he was a researcher in computer vision.
Then chief architect at a self-driving startup called DeepScale.
He sold it to Tesla.
Eventual is his second company.
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After DeepScale, he worked at a number of self-driving companies,
all circling the same question.
How do you sift through all the data
and train the models
so we can make robots real?
Where does he see himself in ten years?
Working on robotics.
Some founders find their calling at 30.
Sammy found his at 12.. and it led to Eventual.
Why is he the one to do this?
Number one: he loves robots.
He's a Transformers guy.
But even before that, at 12 years old,
he was building robotics.
He's much older than 12 now.
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.@LeRobotHF is becoming the dominant open format for robot data.
We recently introduced a native LeRobot reader in Daft, and we've now made it up to 15× faster.
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Here's how: eventual.ai/blog/how-we-made…
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We're excited to share that the Eventual team will be at AUTONOMOUS: The Future of Robotics & Physical AI
We're looking forward to meeting with some of the most talented builders and investors in the industry.
See you on July 16th at The Midway, San Francisco.
#PhysicalAI #Robotics #AUTONOMOUS2026
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Daft retweeted
How well do you know the open source physical ai community?
I asked claude to help me craft an awesome list of 178 repos across 11 categories: VLAs, sim, world models, RL infra, middleware, perception, data, evals, and deployment.
github.com/everettVT/awesome…
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Daft retweeted
Breaking: @huggingface and @CommonCrawl partnered to democratize access to the largest dataset for AI
You can now load Common Crawl in one LoC from ANYWHERE and for FREE
thx to pre-warmed CDN in multi-region/multi-cloud, no data movement fees, and to @daftengine @everettkleven
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Daft retweeted
So excited to finally announce this collaboration with @huggingface
@daftengine + @CommonCrawl is the best way to work with petabytes of internet data.
Stay tuned, we’re just getting started💪🦾
Breaking: @huggingface and @CommonCrawl partnered to democratize access to the largest dataset for AI
You can now load Common Crawl in one LoC from ANYWHERE and for FREE
thx to pre-warmed CDN in multi-region/multi-cloud, no data movement fees, and to @daftengine @everettkleven
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Daft retweeted
Processing images, audio, and video alongside structured data in one pipeline is painful. Daft (@daftengine) is an open-source data engine built for multimodal AI workloads, with GPU/CPU co-scheduling and 5x lower memory than alternatives. More specs in the next post. #DevTools
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Daft retweeted
Who's coming to #AUTONOMOUS?
Our 50 curated speakers helping shape the future of robotics & physical AI 👇
1. Paul Mikesell @carbon_robotics
2. Sankaet Pathak @foundation_robo
3. James Kuffner @SymboticTweet
4. John Ha @bearrobotics
5. Tessa Lau @DustyRobotics
6. AJ Meyer @pickle_robot
7. Bilal Zuberi @redglassvc
8. Xiaodi Hou @BotAutoAV
9. Peter Wilczynski @vantortech
10. Shubham Shrivastava @KodiakRobotics
11. Juraj Kabzan @SkydioHQ
12. Vibhor Sood @burro_ai
13. Ziv Binyamini @ForetellixHQ
14. Tim Bucher @Agtonomy
15. David Lin Abundance
16. Adarsh Kulkarni @FoundryRobotics
17. Danny Bernstein @reservoirfarms
18. Aadeel Akhtar @PSYONICinc
19. Lukas Pankau Industrial Next
20. Kevin Peterson @BedrockRobotics
21. Rajesh Radhakrishnan @ServeRobotics
22. Ed Mehr @MachinaLabs_
23. Kevin A. Damoa @GlidTech
24. Amos Miller @Glidance_io
25. Chris Chen @FaradayFuture
26. Samir Menon @DexterityInc
27. James Hardiman @DCVC
28. Tyler Niday @bonsairobotics
29. Grace Brown Andromeda
30. Peter Vaughan Schmidt @torc_robotics
31. Andrew Culhane @torc_robotics
32. Jari Safi @simberobotics
33. Leonardo Carvalho @solinftec
34. Kanu Gulati @khoslaventures
35. Noah Ready-Campbell @BuiltRobotics
36. Jamie Shotton @wayve_ai
37. Reed Ginsberg @ShinkeiSystems
38. Akash Gupta @GoGreyOrange
39. Brett McMickell Kubota USA
40. Andrew Wooten @RhodaAI
41. AIIvan Poupyrev @PhysicalAI
42. Sammy Sidhu @daftengine
43. Shayegan Omidshafiei @fieldai_
44. Deepak Pathak @SkildAI
45. Rocket Drew @theinformation
46. Rya Jetha @BusinessInsider
47. Rishabh Aggarwal @Raise_Robotics
48.Harry McCracken @FastCompany
49. Russ Tedrake Toyota Research Institute
50. Kishor Veerashekar Plug & Play Ventures
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Daft retweeted
🚢 Daft v0.7.16 has shipped.
🦾 ROBOTICS DATA PIPELINES (and we're just getting started)
> daft.datasets.droid
76k robot manipulation demos, camera feeds, and language annotations. Load them as DataFrames, transform with expressions, feed into PyTorch with .to_torch_dataloader()
22 contributors, 44 changes.
daft.ai/blog/daft-v0-7-16
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