Daniel Ong

Maybe the real alpha was the friends we made along the way 🙌🐳

To build the GitHub for robots, we must first build an all in one repository for your robotics project. We just did that. Try it now tnkr.ai

We have keyboard and PICO teleoperation for Asimov now!

POV: You realize you can build a humanoid robot at home.

Increasingly i think one of the biggest differentiators between who will be able to "pull off" generalized robotics intelligence is based on who understands hardware. At the margins, little details matted, and robots need to work well. So something like this -- building a humanoid robot from scratch -- seems really cool and useful

Open source humanoids for the win🦾🤖🦿

@graftoverflow Neopets!!!

It feels so fitting branching into robot cosmetics I've been known as Grafto/Graft0 since about 2006 on Neopets and Runescape I tried my hardest as a kid to come up with a word that didn't already exist but flowed off your tongue My family and friends have always known me by that alias and a lot of people I've met have never known me as anything else Now I'm starting my most fun venture ever and it's 'grafting' pieces onto robots It just feels right.

This is Asimov v1. It's an open-source humanoid robot. 1.20m, 35kg, 25+2 DoF. Comes with capabilities you can modify, build on, and hack. - Camera, audio, IMU, and joint state data collection - Basic walking via teleops - Custom AI agents and Digital Twin via Cloud API

We spent $100k+ to learn humanoids from the ground up, so you don't have to. If you want to focus on the software stack, whether that's adding an agent layer, solving sim2real, or building a teleops platform, you still need a physical robot you can fully control. That's the nature of this field. Humanoid robotics requires hardware-software codesign. You need to understand everything from how actuators work to the limits of the materials. There's no shortcut where you only touch software. You will always be limited by the physical robot if it is not designed to be as customizable as possible. So we built Asimov as an open-source reference design. No one has to settle for closed systems they can't modify or source parts for in days. Asimov is that reference hardware. Buy it as a DIY kit at cost via our website, or source the parts yourself and 3D print the rest. Either way, you own it fully. We want to speed up the widespread adoption of humanoid robots and accelerate the path to true large-scale autonomy. It's the entry point for anyone serious about humanoid robotics. Asimov is your robot. Build with it what you will.

@graftoverflow This is absolutely incredible and we'd love to work with you on making Asimov super modder-friendly!

I'm building skins for the Asimov open source robot and nothing can stop me

Disney run at me, because I AM going to have a full armoury of custom robot skins and I sure will infringe on your IP

The missing piece for actually building these humanoids in the garage. OpenCrane makes it real!

Working on something awesome around the @asimovinc robot 👀

Start of the week at Menlo Research. We have some things to share with you this week.

A person walks around campus for 5 hours with cameras. That's it. That's the training data. The result? A humanoid robot that traverses unseen buildings, crowds, and glass walls — zero robot data, zero finetuning. EgoNav is here. egonav.weizhuowang.com None of these behaviors were pre-programmed: • Waiting for a door to open before entering • Steering around glass walls invisible to depth sensors • Yielding to pedestrians and resuming • Re-routing when furniture is rearranged All emerged from 5 hours of a human walking around. The prior is real. (1/6) #Humanoid #Robotics #DiffusionModel #EgoNav

We think human data is the scalable path to humanoid navigation. No sim-to-real gap. No robot fleet. Just a person and a backpack. Bookmark this thread for the code release, cite our paper, or comment/DM for more ideas! 🔥 (6/6)

Asimov v1 runs 25 active degrees of freedom from head to toe. We're open-sourcing the full body next week.

Introducing OpenCrane, an open-source crane for humanoid robots. 200 cm tall, 180 cm span, built from 6063-T5 aluminium extrusions. It's easy to mount anything onto the frame without drilling. Repo: github.com/asimovinc/open…

I think these clips are also a great illustration of how much *harder* real work is for robots than the flashy mma videos

We found and fixed a hardware problem over the past two days. Restarting locomotion training now. More walking videos coming soon!

Jan Desktop v0.7.9 just dropped 🙌 If Jan felt a little slow recently, this one's for you. Less RAM usage, no more stuck local models, and a CLI fix for Windows. Download Jan: jan.ai