Watney Robotics

FOLD! FOLD! FOLD! An overnight timelapse of one of our live deployments teleoperated from over 7000 miles away. Our robots fold 24/7/365 with no human intervention, handling long-tail edge cases with no downtime.

@jokrvivek 1. webrtc 😉 2. optimization_engine

See robotics. Like. See Rust. Like See both. Love! @watneyrobotics: What are your favourite rust crates? What about lesser known but awesome crates?

We've also collected the world's largest dataset of cloth manipulation in a real world environment... Stay tuned!

We are extending our teleoperation infrastructure to enable remote inference for cloud-hosted robot foundation models. Robot policies that had to be invoked on edge can now be run from the cloud with no performance loss.

FOLD! FOLD! FOLD! An overnight timelapse of one of our live deployments teleoperated from over 7000 miles away. Our robots fold 24/7/365 with no human intervention, handling long-tail edge cases with no downtime.

Watney loves shopping at Gus's.

Ever seen a robot do a cannonball?

Have you seen a robot washing windows? Is your office in a 5 block radius from the OpenAI office? Reply with your address and Watney will come clean your windows!

Your friendly neighborhood Watney.

The robots, they’re coming… cc @watneyrobotics

The future of robotics is human.

Booting...

@TomPJacobs Too modular and highly unstable. Great for prototyping, terrible for performance in prod.

@watneyrobotics So, ROS2 cycloneDDS no good?

At Berkeley, we drink real coffee. 6 shots of straight espresso, every morning (minimum). - 1x speed, teleoperated from 6,965 miles away. - 87ms photon-to-photon latency. - Unprecedented dexterity. How did we do it? We lay out our unique technical approaches below and what recent catalysts made this all possible 👇

@_getchris Yup. No off the shelf solution was capable of both gentle fine-grained manipulation and high strength gripping. We built off the ALOHA2 design from @tonyzzhao and made it stronger and more robust for deployment.

@watneyrobotics are the end effectors custom too?

Where does that leave us? We've bulletproofed our entire stack, we've had 0 instances of software related downtime (Rust is awesome), and we'll be deploying pilots in the SF Bay Area in the coming months. You'll see our guys pop up quietly — they'll be hard to miss.

Wait but network latency? Well we can thank @elonmusk for making the speed of light 30% faster too. We reduce signal latency transmitting over vacuum than fiber. We learned about the laser links coming online from a few friends @SpaceX. Turns out, 300 miles up, and a straight line across the globe is a lot faster than ping-ponging across BGP boundaries.