Last night the @summerhacksca team hosted their Symposium afterparty @nomnomburger_ and team turned @akatoshouse into a beautiful lounge filled with good vibes

tomorrow a lot of LeLamps will come to life in Waterloo

To build an animated robot that's full of life, we are trying to understand how springiness and damping can be invoked on our robot (ex. when you touch it to say hello!). Some early examples of how we are using current control to do this @humancomplab

robots and games have not crossed paths - so we ran an experiment where LeLamp became the controller to play a simple version of space invaders we map the motor position to the 3d environment and use mechanics that already exist to do things like reloading @humancomplab

Robotics is hard. Things are always breaking. Like a living thing that refuses to behave. It’s a systems problem. You’re making mechanics, electronics, firmware, software, motion, power, heat, etc. orchestrate together at an abstraction which should feel natural for human interaction . Despite that, it is deeply rewarding and the mission becomes clearer - to make something truthful, sincere and masterful. Building with these principles as mental model has helped me evolve both as a builder and human. At @humancomplab I'm bringing artists, animators and engineers to understand how can we reshape our attachment to technology. Pilots for LeLamp will start in 2026. Some things will break as most hardware does in its early days, but it will be the glimpse of a world where magic can exist as I always imagined it to.

For the past 3 weeks, we have been building a real life Pixar lamp. After receiving a lot of questions from the community, I decided to make a brief video explaining the entire process behind LeLamp, from design to simulation. If you have any question, feel free to hit me up on X or over our Discord: discord.gg/727JXBt8Zt

lelamp is walking lol 1 mil steps ppo in stable baselines 3 mujoco for sim gym for env reward = forward movement healthy ( z of lamp head in certain range) will have to mod this a lot but thank god it's working lol, did this in brax but battled a lot with env stuff.