Clone
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Clone
@clonerobotics
Musculoskeletal, superintelligent androids.






"Will the robotics industry will be generating trillions of dollars of revenue?", "YES." Dario Amodei says breakthroughs in robotics could emerge in several ways, such as through continual learning or generalization. Once achieved, these models will revolutionize both robot design and control. However, it will likely take another year or two from that point for the technology to diffuse through the economy.


Building a fully actuated, human-level robotic hand by strength, speed, and range of motion is hard. Making it incredibly durable is even more challenging. Clone has pioneered anthropomorphic hands with 27 degrees of freedom, human-level grip strength and speed, and the most durable artificial muscles in the world. The Hand in this demo is missing middle flexor muscles, but here’s an update on the neural joint controller.


ELON: HANDS' FUNCTIONS ARE EXTREMELY COMPLEX TO REPLICATE IN ROBOTS "The hand is extremely complex. There are 50 actuators in the hand, with the hand and forearm. An actuator is the motor, gearbox, and power electronics. So that’s 100 per robot, really a lot of actuators and sensors. Approximately. In order to do dexterous tasks, you have to have a hand with the sensitivity, precision, and degrees of freedom of a human hand. Because something that we find easy to do, like pick up a screwdriver or turn a wrench, or even thread a needle or play the guitar, actually requires a lot of dexterity." Source: @elonmusk, @BaronCapital, @RonBaronAnalyst










Took me 2 years to land this one... 🎙️ In this episode, I talk with @dhanushisrad, Co-Founder and CEO of @clonerobotics: The company is building lifelike, musculoskeletal androids that move like humans and could become the next personal computing platform. Dhanush shares how watching Iron Man at 13 sparked a lifelong obsession with tech, leading him from plasma thrusters and nuclear fusion research to founding a YC-backed robotics company now making headlines with their human-like androids. We talk about why his first startup didn’t work out (and why Plan A to do B never does), how he met his co-founder on the internet, and why moving to Poland turned out to be one of the best decisions for focus and execution. Clone is going against the grain: from hydraulics to neural net control, from soft-body design to building general-purpose robots from scratch. This convo is packed with vision, hard-earned insights, and a founder who’s not afraid to do things differently. Give it a listen. You’ll see why people are paying attention. @builddeeptech #67 "Doing Plan A to Do B Doesn’t Work" With Dhanush Radhakrishnan 🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/BQVLf-65i_M 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/78kDIU… 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bui…


We asked @wolfejosh from @Lux_Capital to explain why robots shouldn't look like humans. "They should be, in the Darwinian sense, 'Endless forms, Most beautiful'." "Why do we give them two arms and two legs to unpack a sink?" "I want to see them have six arms and do things that are un-human, like that Cantina scene from Star Wars." "The future of robotics is embodied intelligence, irrespective of form factors."

Protoclone is the most anatomically accurate android in the world.




