Humanoid labor too cheap to meter.
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This is my ANA Avatar XPRIZE robot from just before finals in October 2022. It's mostly 3D printed and cost about $2000.
I still don't understand why in 2025 I still regularly come across expensive robots using commercial arms that don't perform as well.
Modified @ChongZzZhang's SuperMimicVibed to only care about history and current pose and retrained. With totally garbage MediaPipe retargeting and no concept of stage position it kinda works. So many directions to take this from here from a teleop perspective.
Look at that swagger!
Started with the older @RoboParty_DEV robot setup since there was not one for the new robot and let it run overnight on my 3060 laptop for 6.5 hours which was 6200 steps.
This is 6550 out of 14000 steps for $1.15 on a runpod RTX PRO 6000 for 30 minutes. All 40 clips. Crazy.
vibe code: github.com/zita-ch/supermimi…
14000 for $2.78 cents. Most mimic quite well. Some need more cooking. A more cooking needed example shown as the second clip here.
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A million hours of what?
If we’re scaling human demonstrations for robot learning, what should each hour contain?
We built S1, our skill capture glove, alongside our robot hand to record joint movements that map to robot targets, with touch and video on the same timeline.
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Launching a new humanoid learning course at @CMU_Robotics in Spring 2027!
Every team will get its own (small) humanoid robot for hands-on labs.
Will open-source everything (lecture slides, codes). Stay tuned!
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Three years ago I downloaded “a little weekend project” on Instructables: a pair of animatronic eyes open sourced by Will Cogley.
I never stopped iterating around it. A head, then a body, and those eyes became Vita, a robot that moves, talks and streams 24/7 from my workshop.
Now my new robot MOSS, a fully open source build, is featured on the Instructables homepage. From downloading my first project there to sharing my own.
The loop is closed.
Link in the first comment.
The "expand folder in place" feature took 20 minutes, but GrokBot got it working first try. It's a non-trivial feature too. Live update even works and I didn't even ask.
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New update to my Anatomy Atlas: joint motion!
Flex an elbow, oppose a thumb, or turn the head. Watch the joints move and the muscles involved light up in real time.
Open the "Motion" menu to try it.
anatomy-atlas.pridgenmd.chat…
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🎮Magnetra3🎮
#ContactGlove3
just sitting on the porch Doing some Voice dictated Vibe programming in VR with my agents while my girl is working on her Halloween costume
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🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Lucky Engine 2026.3! "The Matrix for Robots" is now 100% Agentic 🤖✨
To train autonomy, you need a "Matrix" a virtual playground where they can learn before touching the physical world.
Today, we are dropping Lucky Engine 2026.3, and we think that it redefines how synthetic environments are built.
• Real-time ray tracing & path tracing
• 100% agentic (AI agents fully control the engine)
• Upload a photo → instant data generation for your policies
• Graph-based procedural generation, AI generated determinism
• No Blender required. Here’s what’s inside 🧵 👇
UI is pretty messy now. Need to do some thinking about where this is actually going. Might do a SONIC teleop sidequest and/or get MimicLite working first though.
Planner is in now. This one took a bunch of persuading to keep @bot on track. A bit of hiccupping though. The agent wanted to run the planner in a background thread but I vetoed. I want to manually clock and maybe that is what is causing problems.
Planner is in now. This one took a bunch of persuading to keep @bot on track. A bit of hiccupping though. The agent wanted to run the planner in a background thread but I vetoed. I want to manually clock and maybe that is what is causing problems.