15 robotics research voices to follow on X, plus a career map from 412 job posts
breadli428 · x · 2026-10-19
A shared list of 15 robotics research accounts on X covering key embodied-AI areas: Chris Paxton (Agility) on humanoid demo takes, Karl Pertsch on datasets and open VLAs (DROID to OpenVLA), Kevin Zakka on MuJoCo tooling, Chi Cheng (Diffusion Policy/UMI), Karol Hausman (RT-2 to Physical Intelligence), Yilun Du on video models as robot planners, Pete Florence (Generalist), and more.
The quoted post is an article analyzing 412 humanoid robot job listings to map real career paths into robotics, debunking myths like needing a PhD, ROS first, or living in San Francisco.
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