It's fun to meet in person other passionate robot lovers we should do this more often @menloresearch @asimovinc thanks for hosting the event let's do another one!

Teaching a humanoid to stand, balance, and walk. The robot in the video is Asimov 1, our open-source reference hardware. Anyone can build it, customize it, and use it. Every day we train new policies and test them on Asimov 1. Each run gets us a little closer to clean standing, balance, and walking. We're also testing driving it with other devices, like a Bluetooth gamepad. This is what the early work looks like. Slow, hands-on, one run at a time. Read the full write-up below for our learnings.

Probably the best fringe event of London Tech Week was this robotics meet up by @selim___1903 and the good folks at @menloresearch 🦾 It was an honor to be 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 in the room full of some very cool robotics founders. I also showcased some hardware: ⚙️a QDD actuator from @saturnroboticsx via @parthingle_x 💚the second brain device from @neosapienHQ via @imDhananjay Thank you @dominiconorton for inviting me over!

We're making some updates to our careers page. Applications will be back open very soon, stay tuned.

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Mando started his humanoid robot journey with K-Scale's K-Bot. Now he's continuing it with Asimov 1.

"Anyone can bring their own intelligence model into the bots."

Nothing tests a robot like dropping it on its head before a demo. 4 hours before this demo, an operator error did exactly that. The robot fell face-first and the SBC snapped off. We fixed it in 2 hours, with most of that time spent finding a replacement. It was an unscheduled test of how repairable Asimov 1 is. It passed.

@menloresearch demo-ing their open source humanoids. Anyone can bring their own intelligence model into the bots.

Build your own humanoid robot: docs.menlo.ai/asimov/1

A crane takes up too much room, so we made something smaller. Asimov 1 is sitting on it.

We're meeting in London tomorrow 🧡 luma.com/3hglgsfw

A quick heads up before tonight. We usually get around 300 sign-ups for Demo Night. This month it's 635. That's more than double, so seating will be tight and we've set up extra space. The main presentations are in the same room as usual. Seating fills up fast, so come early if you want a seat. Standing room is available too, but expect that to fill as well. We've also opened a spillover space on the same floor, Level 7, right outside the library. There are no presentations there, but we'll have two robots to see up close, and it's a good spot to mingle with other attendees and the speakers. So wherever you end up, there's plenty to see tonight. See you soon. This one's going to be fun 🧡 luma.com/sf2j557g

We cut Asimov's wiring down to a single connector. The power and communication boards are now one stack. Power and data run through one XT30(2 2). Motor power toggles in software through a solid state relay. So now we bench-test a single limb with one power cable.

The next stop is Austin. Let's chat over coffee about humanoids 🧡 luma.com/0yjwefz7

What we're working on - Menlo Community Talk #6 x.com/i/broadcasts/1nJOLLXDV…

We're meeting in San Francisco today 🧡 luma.com/dz7d48ls

We're meeting in San Francisco, Austin and London next. Check the event calendar to RSVP: luma.com/calendar/cal-spwVOh…

Great hanging out, Palo Alto 🧡 Planned a coffee meetup, and it turned into a picnic. Cool seeing so many people interested in humanoids show up. ​ See you around.

We're hosting an online community talk this Friday 11 AM SGT (Thursday 8 PM PT). Get an early look at what we're shipping. We'll show what's in progress, what just shipped, and what's coming. Bring questions, we'll answer them live. luma.com/r8540uxv