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It's basically trying to replicate OpenRouter, which works pretty well and has a lot of nice features to abstract away any single provider, such as failover, metering, autoswitchin…

Fable-level, yea, but can it run gstack?

I've been thinking for a while that some part of the ebullience towards AI among the American decision-maker class is that it is a good way to stick our heads in the sand and prete…

But they're bootstrapped and using their own money, not defrauding investors

I suspect that these kinds of things will happen with or without my involvement. Assuming that they do, I would rather that a good open source option exists

Oh I see. Yes, we're currently exploring a few different five finger hand options - we will choose whichever option provides the best value. I actually quite like the Inspire hands…

Really appreciate it :)

I think we will just focus on making really great, low-cost hardware and a nice SDK, and let other people experiment with different approaches on the intelligence layer.

Well, I believe the competition up until now has mostly been on hardware, but moving forward it will mostly be in software. I don't think we will be outcompeted by Unitree on softw…

We try to sell it for a fair price while still making money. Actually I think there will be comparably priced humanoids coming out from other companies soon

I really do think that building through the open source community is the best way to compete with the big players, even without having a lot of capital. Of course, it doesn't mean …

I think it's a very hard problem, but I would like to align our company's incentives towards solving it

Yeah, the basic robot is just a robot, albeit with open-source software and hardware For compute - we're exploring a few boards right now, but the base model will be something from…

My overall plan is basic joystick control -> VLA with RL -> self-supervised embodied representation -> end-to-end RL -> end-to-end control. I suspect there will be some very good m…

This is really interesting to read about. To be honest, I know very little about this space, but it's something a few people have approached me about tackling. I do think that this…

We're exploring some options - maybe a rental option in the future. Would like to make it accessible to everyone

I have a pretty bad mental model of how most VCs think, but I think good VCs will fund smart people who demonstrate extreme conviction, regardless of how they initially size the ma…

Thanks! We're all pretty cross-stack - there are some hardware people and some software people, but the product is quite integrated. Personally, my time has been mostly focused on …

Which link? I can fix

Yes, we are aware of this customer segment. I don't think they have thoroughly considered the implications of what high torque actuators can do to the human body

Yeah I think humanoids are a pretty fraught area. There's definitely been some backlash but overall I have really appreciated the responses we've got from people. Like, I just want…

This is a much better answer than mine

Yeah of course. That's kind of the whole point - I don't think you can really trust a humanoid robot in your house around your family if it is not clear what it's running. Basicall…