PathOn Robotics

Welcome to the official PathOn Robotics 'Testing Facility' (aka the robot gym). Also known as the corner of my basement right next to my gym. We've been running our custom sensor/software on the Go2 for our initial GTM. Bypassing the factory brain and injecting an enterprise-grade OS requires zero fancy office space—just a clear floor, a bright light, and absolute focus. Hyper capital-efficient build mode. Let's keep shipping.🤖🛠️

We don't spend money on an office. R&D lab = dining room. Workshop = basement. I'm a solo founder building robots. 🧵

Excited to share the first version of our in-house dexterous hand design at @pathon_robotics ! 🦾 We're building a unified dexterous manipulation pipeline that works across multiple hand platforms — both off-the-shelf hands and our own design, which we're now prototyping. Next week, we'll integrate eFlesh, a low-cost tactile sensor, to give the system rich contact feedback for fine manipulation. @Raunaqmb The goal: a hardware-agnostic pipeline where you can plug in your preferred hand + sensor stack and get dexterous manipulation out of the box. More updates coming soon 👇

Stock SO-101: 5 DoF + non-symmetric gripper. SOTA grasp models: 6D poses + symmetric grippers. So we upgraded the SO-101 to 6DoF and designed a symmetric parallel-jaw gripper — so any SOTA grasp model drops in. 🦾 Here's the full arc 🧵👇

Lean startup

3 SAFEs locked in this week, angel round launched 🎯 Momentum building. Keep going 💪

Multi color now, but we need to modify the design

🎉 LiteWebAgent just hit 100 stars on GitHub! ⭐ Thank you to everyone who has supported this project. Excited to keep building! 🚀 Check it out: github.com/PathOnAIOrg/Li… #OpenSource #WebAutomation

Added our P logo to the gripper

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I started selling SO-101 and Lekiwi on shop.pathon.ai. It is the cheapest and fastest place to get these open source robots if you order from the USA.

I just sold some Feetech servos to a research lab since they burned follower arm gripper servo as well. It's so important to add hardware and software guardrails to open source robots to prevent hardware damage.

I took a day off but wrapped up some scripts on teleoperating a SO100 arm in a MuJoCo environment. I need to learn ManiSkill and Isaac for the simulation—I feel this is still a bit raw.

🤖 Upgraded the SO-101 to mobile SO-101 (Lekiwi) recently. As someone with no experience in Raspberry Pi, there's definitely a learning curve to get teleoperation working properly. The Lekiwi is indeed harder to assemble than the original SO-101, but I actually think it's a better setup overall. When we don't move the base around, it functions just like the SO-101, except the two cameras are mounted at fixed positions which works really well. Bottom line: it's just harder to get started, but worth it once you're up and running. #Robotics #RaspberryPi #SO101 #Lekiwi

Milestone: sold my first robot today!

🤖 Expensive Lessons in Robotics: When a $20 Servo Teaches You About Safety Checks I unfortunately burnt the gripper servo of my so-arm100 follower arm last weekend because I recalibrated my leader arm and then went straight ahead with teleoperation. A $20 lesson since I need to buy a new servo! But here's the thing about failures in robotics – they force you to add proper safety checks. Instead of just replacing the part, I took the time to: ✅ Build a new follower arm from scratch ✅ Write comprehensive testing scripts for calibration ✅ Add crucial safety checks before running teleoperation ✅ Create real-time positioning controls for the leader arm The result? A system that safely moves to zero position and resets to rest position with proper validation at each step – no more burnt servos! script: github.com/PathOn-AI/awes…

🎉 Exciting News! We're thrilled to announce that our paper "Visual Tree Search of Web Agent" has been accepted to ECML-PKDD 2025, one of the premier European conferences in machine learning and data science! This breakthrough work comes from our talented PathOnAI.org community members, with another web agent paper in the pipeline. What is VisualTreeSearch?It's a fully-deployed system that makes web agent decision-making transparent and interpretable. For the first time, researchers and practitioners can observe how AI agents navigate and make decisions on the web in real-time. Key innovations include: ⚡ Ultra-fast API-based state reset (50s → 2s) ☁️ Scalable cloud infrastructure with WebSocket + ECS 🌳 Interactive tree visualization with live browser execution 🧠 Support for advanced algorithms including LATS (Language Agent Tree Search) This open-source system bridges the critical gap between research and real-world deployment, providing essential infrastructure for debugging web agents, analyzing search strategies, and prototyping new planning algorithms. Explore the project: 🔗 Project details: pathonai.org/projects/visua… 🎮 Live demo: visual-tree-search.pathonai.org💻 GitHub: github.com/PathOnAIOrg/Vi… #MachineLearning #AI #WebAgents #OpenSource #Research #ECMLPKDD2025

@LeRobotHF #LeRobotWorldwideHackathon

🤖 Excited to share my latest open-source project: a voice-controlled agentic robot, right before @huggingface @LeRobotHF Hackathon! I've released the complete codebase for a system that seamlessly bridges natural language and robotic action: 🎙️ Deepgram ASR converts voice commands to text 🧠 OpenAI function calling translates text into precise robot instructions ⚡ Fine-tuned Pi0 model executes tasks via remote inference server This demo showcases the potential of multimodal AI systems where voice becomes the primary interface for robotic control. Check out the full implementation: github.com/PathOn-AI/awes… #AI #Robotics #OpenSource #VoiceAI #LeRobot

🤖 很兴奋分享我的最新开源项目：语音控制智能机器人，正值 @huggingface @LeRobotHF 我发布了一个完整的代码库，实现了自然语言与机器人动作的无缝连接： 🎙️ Deepgram ASR 将语音指令转换为文本 🧠 OpenAI 函数调用将文本转译为精确的机器人指令 ⚡ 微调的 Pi0 模型通过远程推理服务器执行任务 这个演示展示了多模态AI系统的潜力，语音成为机器人控制的主要交互界面。 查看完整实现：github.com/PathOn-AI/awes… #人工智能 #机器人技术 #开源 #语音AI #lerobot