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Dominique Paul
@DominiqueCAPaul
Founder of Dream Machines @dm_robots, building ML models for robotic arms. Previous: Stats at @ETH & @NeurIPSconf. I post about RL and VLA post-training.
Zurich, Switzerland
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    Dominique Paul
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    Jul 29
    On April 2nd, I incorporated Dream Machines and raised an angel round. This is the document I raised it on. Most company stories are told post hoc and cleaned up. I want to share ours ex ante. Europe needs more technical people building what they see the world lacking, and
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    Dominique Paul
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    Robot learning is on track to be the defining technology of our lifetime, but unlike LLMs or agents, you can't just start with a laptop. You need an arm, and for many models, a strong local GPU. ​This request keeps coming up at our paper clubs: engineers and computer scientists
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    Dominique Paul
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    14h
    New fin grippers just landed in our open-source DK1 repo. Two things we wanted: 1/ Thinner tips, so we can pick up small objects 2/ Tips angled inward, so we can exert stronger forces, e.g. when pulling (images below show before & after) Fin grippers work well on larger
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    Dominique Paul
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    Aug 6
    When it comes to hiring, it feels like it's so easy to spend a lot of time talking to a broad group of people (get-to-know calls and coffee chats) and then spend even more time in a formal work trial trying to assess whether they really are good, and all of that without a very