Hi! I’m pabs (23), I’m working on building self-evolving probes to seed life on other planets.

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I believe problems 1,2,3 are energy efficiency, live communication and mobility.

to examine 1,2: last year, i deployed 100 self-sustaining solar-powered, Starlink-ed edge-AI field computers
across the Congo, the Amazon, the Andes and the Himalaya, with Microsoft and WWF.

now im focused on introducing 3, mobility in extreme terrain and putting the first humanoid on everest.

• im exploring robot rope ascension with the VISTA team at LIX, Polytechnique.
• using mountains as lunar analogues for space-robot benchmarking with the SETI Institute.
• workshop im doing on Humanoids at the Edge for IEEE Humanoids 2026, Santa Clara

before, i:

• put a robot on the world’s closest point to the Sun.
• was first-employee at a cloud inference provider backed by tier 1, hf0
• built the first Rust wrapper for OBS with xAI, so AI can read live video at optimal latency.
• wired a $10M mansion with 50 cameras and an AI that watched founders around the clock
• built a boat at the RIB’s birthplace that is now used to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean
• was raised on a 50,000 people island and across Africa

I operate between Paris, San Francisco and Shenzhen.

My favourite book is Léon l'Africain.

My current bookshelf:

• The Age of Napoleon, Will and Ariel Durant
• The Vital Question, Nick Lane
• The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
• The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
• Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott
• Half-Earth, E. O. Wilson

i want to emulate the Pablos before me: the saint’s ethos, the artist’s pathos and the founder’s logos.
i call that the rhetoric of life, which i believe is just a game of great timing (kairos).