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Josh

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Josh

@joshavata

carbon based, ceo @meckaai

Joined April 2012

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Josh
@joshavata
Mar 23
Mecka is excited to power EgoVerse: a growing ecosystem for robot learning from egocentric human data Proven across 4 leading research labs, EgoVerse data consistently boosts robot performance We release the tools for anyone to collect data, inference/train, and contribute! 🧵
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Josh
@joshavata
Aug 12, 2025
Excited to announce our $8M seed round led by @neo to further our work as the data layer for robotics Heres why we bet early on human data advancing autonomous robotics:
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Josh
@joshavata
Mar 23, 2023
I spent months making this translation chat app just so my mom could talk to me like this
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Josh
@joshavata
Aug 12, 2025
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Thank you to our friends and investors including @ericjang11, @xiao_ted, @radbackwards, @animesh_garg, @suzannexie, @apartovi, @conconconling, @mrjasonchoi, @pythianism, @rajivpoc, @Rewkang, @alyriadefi, @svangel, @A_StarVC, @BennettSiegel, @kevinhartz, @offlineventures,
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Josh
@joshavata
May 3, 2023
We made ~200 cookies today 🍪
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Josh
@joshavata
Jan 12, 2022
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Jan 12, 2022
Josh
@joshavata
Aug 12, 2025
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Read more from @alexrkonrad here
This Startup Wants To Record Your Chores To Train Robots Better
From upstartsmedia.com
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Josh
@joshavata
Feb 2, 2022
Twitter crash course with @tobydoyhowell at @launchhouse Here’s a thread on best tips 👇🏻
Josh
@joshavata
Dec 18, 2021
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Josh
@joshavata
Mar 27, 2017
Western Ivey AEO 🎉✅✅
Josh
@joshavata
Aug 12, 2025
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General-purpose robots will be the largest GDP impacting technology of our lifetime with a $42T injection of productive labor through humanoids and robots of many shapes and sizes! But robot models, among many other challenges, face a data issue
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Josh
@joshavata
Aug 12, 2025
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The inspiration for our name Mecka here are "mechas" from Japanese science fiction which are giant humanoid robots piloted by human fighters
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Josh
@joshavata
Aug 12, 2025
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The data soup in robotics is made up of many key ingredients, including tele-op, synthetic, and internet-scale data Across high-quality but slow teleoperation data with fast yet lower-quality synthetic simulations, we made a bet on human data, starting with egocentric videos
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Josh
@joshavata
Aug 12, 2025
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The naive common-sense hunch, along with wonderful research in the community, is that a humanoid and a human share a form factor The question was whether we could transfer the knowledge from less noisy human demonstrations in a POV video to a robot at large-scale
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