Benjamin Bolte kache Headless for quicker training lol

okay maybe I shouldn't be throwing stones (identities obscured for the grieving family's privacy)

fun little project: made a mujoco viewer - live plots and helpful debugging stats. - it runs in a separate process so it won't block your physics loop. it's already helped me catch some gnarly bugs. all in python and open source! 🔗 👇

Sam Altman says he’s excited about a future where signing up for ChatGPT’s highest tier gets you a free humanoid robot. ⦿ The mechanical engineering and AI for humanoids are quite hard but feel within grasp. ⦿ Making a billion humanoid robots will take a while; maybe the first

K-Scale Labs will manufacture their humanoid robots in Dallas, Texas.

🚀 Introducing LeVERB, the first 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗩𝗟𝗔 (upper- & lower-body), trained on sim data and zero-shot deployed. Addressing interactive tasks: navigation, sitting, locomotion with verbal instruction. 🧵 ember-lab-berkeley.github.io/LeVERB-Website/

Was great talking!

Get ready

This is the most comprehensive summary I've seen of our journey so far. Looking forward to the next ten years

"If you worked at Tesla, you should know how to compete with Tesla… right?" "'Elon Musk is just a guy".' In this clip, Benjamin Bolte talks about the real uphill battle of building K-Scale Labs and why insider knowledge alone isn’t enough when you’re going up against giants

A/C, washer-dryers, vacuums, radios, and other domestic tech fundamentally reshaped American life & productivity from the 40s-70s, creating the American century. What impact will consumer robots in America have on the 21st century? K-Scale Labs and Benjamin Bolte are moving us

Huge congrats to the K-Scale team for shipping the most affordable US humanoid by a wide margin!

kscale.dev was one of the first to order the upcoming open source humanoid robot from K-Scale Labs and had the pleasure of meeting their CEO Ben who is an incredibly brilliant mind. If you buy one though please put my name down for referral.. I want my gold edition!

This is pretty cool. I started K-Scale because I wanted to buy a humanoid robot, so I knew I would have at least one customer. Great to see that N > 1

me rn

Apparently Japanese people like humanoid robots. Very happy