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POV: You just built your own humanoid robot https://t.co/3nsexo4Urr https://t.co/18MpvnOuWv |
Just left a positive review in Ethos for @menloresearch, a very promising robotics company from Singapore. They built Asimov 1, a humanoid robot you can assemble at home for around $20K. If you're into robotics, go follow them!… |
Micro Center should sell humanoid robot parts. https://t.co/0XCVpzBsrl https://t.co/bznBY27Suj |
Everything you need to build a humanoid robot from scratch -> https://t.co/cOA9iWI1SX https://t.co/z0OzmQm0Zg https://t.co/ydPKdxa47H |
feels like https://t.co/F4mV97N4I0 https://t.co/znDAamYkNL |
We're shipping Asimov 1! Builders have already received their kits in 🇺🇸 the US, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇹🇭 Thailand, and 🇦🇪 the UAE. We're forming Batch 4 now. Order now: https://t.co/qp1Etq9rzs… |
Agents are going to live with us and do many different things. It doesn't make sense to have a separate robot for every environment. Makes more sense to have one robot that can generalize across all of them. We designed our environments… |
You can build an Asimov 1 in less than a week, spending a few hours a day. The IKEA-style manual walks you through each step. https://t.co/5UbEjlKMGB https://t.co/O1MPiZxvhf |
The pic shows a semi-assembled Asimov 1. The full kit has around 1,000 parts, and a legend in Germany put it all together in just 3 days. That's the record so far! https://t.co/18MpvnOuWv |
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Would you want a smaller Asimov 1 you could build and teach new tricks? https://t.co/e2E9BwP8g2 |
You can build your own humanoid robot. https://t.co/2qoiOa3Xb8 https://t.co/JEMl3VewMt |
POV: You realize you can actually learn humanoid robotics online. https://t.co/0zVUu5AHZg https://t.co/anmkQcuCXN |
You can train Asimov 1 using our open-source RL training framework, built on @NVIDIAAI's Isaac Lab. https://t.co/UR36iZdlKD https://t.co/1f0FtTQ5CV |
Asimov 1 is the most open humanoid robot. https://t.co/qp1Etq9rzs https://t.co/PxT0rxaQRp |
hey, that's the first Asimov 1 sighting in California! https://t.co/eTWBRrgQZv https://t.co/SH0PtmEmg0 |
Asimov 1 is an open-source humanoid robot. Everything that's open on Asimov 1: - Bill of materials - Mechanical CAD - Electrical schematics and PCBs - Fabrication manifest - Assembly manual - Wiring harness - Edge, the onboard runtime -… |
We listed Asimov 1 on @ProductHunt to encourage more people to build their own humanoids! Upvotes and comments welcome 🧡 https://t.co/mUebhxQCGz https://t.co/LZ8TFwUHSo |
Building a humanoid robot is becoming a lot more accessible. @menloresearch has released the Asimov 1 user manual, giving people a guide to building their own humanoid instead of just watching robotics companies do it. Curious to see how… |
GitHub - menloresearch/menlo-sdk |
This is what you get with Asimov 1. Give it a few hours a week and you'll have a full humanoid robot you can train and change however you like. Enjoy the build, folks! https://t.co/hlOFp0L2HF |
You can line up what Asimov 1 saw with how it moved. Robot state and camera frames are both timestamped in the Menlo SDK, with raw joint and IMU data and full session recording. https://t.co/zFwVNGtaUY https://t.co/X90F92ZNTx… |
Asimov 1 has new friends 🧡 https://t.co/zKrwA7EPrV |
Menlo SDK is now open-source. - Turn your ideas into new capabilities for your Asimov 1 - Control its movements and read its state from your code - Use its camera, microphone and speaker in your applications Start building on humanoids:… |
We're open-sourcing Menlo SDK so you can build your own applications for a humanoid robot. The SDK connects your code to Asimov 1, letting you control its movements and read its state. With the full source available, you can build on the… |
Asimov 1 is the humanoid you can extend, customize and repair. It comes with open hardware & code, arms rated for 5kg each (15 kg peak), full access to every joint, and a wrist ready for your own hands & tools. Order:… |
You can start training a humanoid before you own one. Asimov 1's open-source training code gives you a foundation to train and evaluate locomotion policies in simulation. Train your own policy: https://t.co/Wv92FhjZvn… |
We're building Asimov at @menloresearch so two people in a garage can build a billion-dollar company. That starts with making Asimov 1 the most developer-friendly humanoid we can. Hardware and software designed together so developers can… |
Search articles Key Takeaways Show all - The first production batch of the open-source Asimov 1 DIY humanoid kit is shipping to early builders after moving through fabrication. - Pricing is finalized at $20,000 delivered, accounting for… |