Super cool work!! How much of a limitation is it to have the robot be basically 3D-printable? Though I can see it's basically required for making it buildable by others.
The cartwheel fails are pretty brutal, it never learned how to catch itself and break its own fall. Cartwheel is a remarkable demo, I initially thought it was a joke and fake until I saw the blooper reel. Now I half believe it.
Those bots never learn by themselves. It's same as how animations on beautiful LPs don't write themselves. They're all "fake" in that sense, but also "real" in the sense that they would not be just gifs or mp4s but callbacks would be firing and running on customer browsers.
Figuring out the meaning of the acronym "LP"s will be for the archeologists to decipher, I suppose.
EDIT: Future archeologist here (3 minutes after posting). It stands for "Live Performance", which is an unnecessarily obscure way of saying something that isn't obvious from the context alone.
Automated cat feeders already exist, we have a water fountain, a kibble feeder than needs monthly refill and a wet food feeder that is stocked once per day.
I've heard this before but I don't think I believe it. I spend many hours every week 1. picking up clutter and putting it away 2. sorting clean clothes into drawers (I have a family of 5) and 3. shuttling dishes to/from the dishwasher.
I would pay quite a bit of money to stop doing those things. Especially #1. Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?
Super cool work!! How much of a limitation is it to have the robot be basically 3D-printable? Though I can see it's basically required for making it buildable by others.
Super impressive work! Can't wait for these to be a little more budget friendly so that it would be viable for small hacking around the house.
The cartwheel fails are pretty brutal, it never learned how to catch itself and break its own fall. Cartwheel is a remarkable demo, I initially thought it was a joke and fake until I saw the blooper reel. Now I half believe it.
Those bots never learn by themselves. It's same as how animations on beautiful LPs don't write themselves. They're all "fake" in that sense, but also "real" in the sense that they would not be just gifs or mp4s but callbacks would be firing and running on customer browsers.
Figuring out the meaning of the acronym "LP"s will be for the archeologists to decipher, I suppose.
EDIT: Future archeologist here (3 minutes after posting). It stands for "Live Performance", which is an unnecessarily obscure way of saying something that isn't obvious from the context alone.
EDIT2: Or it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record
> Toddler
> Does a perfect Cartwheel in the first clip
Damn clankers ’roid their babies.
Two DOF for waist! That's some dedication.
This is Cool! Do we have Mujoco Sim available for doing further research using VLA.
Is there a cheaper/starter version, can still use Jetson nano but the rest of the BOM is more starter friendly :)
I have visions of buying/building one to feed my cats and bring packages from my porch, is this crazy ambitious?
Edit: Just seen that 'low cost' means $6k, LMAO
6k is on a bit expensive side for a toddler sized servo bots but cheaper than most Chinese robot dogs. Robots are crazy expensive.
Automated cat feeders already exist, we have a water fountain, a kibble feeder than needs monthly refill and a wet food feeder that is stocked once per day.
And package dropboxes also exist.
Not every problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots. (Almost no problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots actually)
> Almost bo problem...
I've heard this before but I don't think I believe it. I spend many hours every week 1. picking up clutter and putting it away 2. sorting clean clothes into drawers (I have a family of 5) and 3. shuttling dishes to/from the dishwasher.
I would pay quite a bit of money to stop doing those things. Especially #1. Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?
> Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?
Yeah, just hire someone to do that for you. It will probably cost far less than " quite a bit of money".
> insert “Jurassic Park” meme
Looks awesome, thanks for the share!