Hi, I’m Vitaly!
I am an entrepreneur and a tech enthusiast.
Working on financial modeling software at DataPartner and preaching the new way of working and office innovation at DeskMe. And the next big thing is… humanoid robots!
My hats 🤠
VP at DataPartner
Financial modeling software for making investment analysis, business valuation and feasibility study and more.
CEO at DeskMe
Making offices flexilbe, efficeint and productive by allowing easy desk and meeting room bookings, finding people and places within corporate offices.
Biography
I am from Riga, Latvia. I live in Finland. My mother tongue is Russian.
AI on Legs
- Meet the Giant: NeodraDynamics’ 4-Meter, 1-Ton Humanoid Is Breaking Every Rule
At 4 meters tall and over a ton, the NeodraDynamics Super Humanoid unveiled at World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing is an order of magnitude larger than Tesla Optimus. It’s designed for nuclear plants, deep-sea ops, and disaster zones — and it might be the most radical rethink of what a humanoid robot can be. - The Hand Wars: Figure says tendons were a mistake, Tesla is doubling down
Figure’s CEO says the tendon-based hand he chose in 2022 was the worst engineering decision of his last four years. Tesla has rebuilt the entire Optimus forearm around that same idea, 1X shipped 25 tendon-driven degrees of freedom five weeks ago, and China is quietly setting the price floor. What a tendon hand is, why it is seductive, why it bites, and where this fight is heading. - Tau Robotics’s take on house-cleaning robots
Tau Robotics will clean your home in San Francisco for $30 an hour. Look closer and the robot is an off-the-shelf Unitree G1 in a branded shirt, driven by a person in a mocap suit. And the new US import ban means the next startup with this idea will not get to try. - The Cost of Protectionism: Why the US Robot Ban Could Backfire
The recent US ban on imported humanoid robots — primarily targeting China, which currently manufactures roughly 85% of the world’s… Read more: The Cost of Protectionism: Why the US Robot Ban Could Backfire
