Jacob Valdez

Training SC-WBD-00X + IBM brain prediction and decoding models for SuperCognition Labs. Building Agentic + Robotics Infrastructure at CommandAGI.com. Prev: API/Integration Architect at AGI, Inc., shipping APIs, integrations, and agent infrastructure for on-device mobile AI agents. Breezy, Deepshard, Motio, and UTA research labs. BS Computer Science from UT Arlington. I love science and engineering and people

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2026-05-19

Before AI Can Do Chemistry, It Has to Touch the World

Chem-0 team with the robot arm lab setup

What building a prototype autonomous chemistry lab taught me about embodied AI, measurement construction, and why understanding the task is not the same thing as being able to touch the world.

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