pepijn223/futurpulse-lerobot-talk

Robotics is having its open-source moment

An interactive 16:9 HTML talk for Pepijn Kooijmans at Future Pulse / NL Robotics: a personal journey from early ACT experiments to an open-source takeoff in physical intelligence—and a call for the Netherlands to lead.

This Space runs the interactive deck directly. Open it in a browser, use the arrow keys to advance, and press N for the speaker manuscript. Videos are bundled with the Space so the talk works without external media links.

Presenting

Start the site and open it in a modern browser. The deck is designed for a 16:9 projector and keeps working without a network connection once loaded.

• —→, ↓, PageDown, or Space: next slide
• —←, ↑, or PageUp: previous slide
• —N: exact spoken manuscript, delivery guidance, and sources for the current slide
• —O: slide overview
• —F: fullscreen
• —Home / End: first / final slide

Use ?print=1 for the all-slides print view.

• —TALK_MANUSCRIPT.md is the polished, word-for-word 25-minute talk. Its 30 sections map one-to-one to the slides.
• —TALK_SCRIPT.md contains presenter guidance, factual caveats, transitions, and sources for each slide.

Editorial constraints

• —English; ~80% industry audience; no formal Q&A, with four brief audience prompts
• —No customer references or stealth-company references
• —Public engineering direction is clearly separated from launch commitments
• —Personal origin in ACT, imitation learning, and the Everyday Robots vision
• —Emphasis on the last two years and the acceleration of the last six months
• —LeRobot interwoven as the open infrastructure accelerating broad participation
• —Shirt-folding work as a named, metrics-backed proof point
• —Final call: experiment, collect data, build together, and put the Netherlands at the forefront

Media and factual sources

The local clips and images come from Pepijn's personal robot archive, the supplied Keynote, the LeRobot community, and official LeRobot properties. External claims are linked in the speaker notes. The adoption snapshot is dated 21 August 2026 and is drawn from the community-built LeRobot Project Pulse dashboard, which combines GitHub, Hugging Face Hub, PyPI, and Discord signals.