Tim Qian
@Tim_Qian
Creator of http://bambot.org, http://star-history.com (acquired by @bytebase)
Introducing Bambot, an open source, low cost (~$300) humanoid robot. Inspired by @LeRobotHF , so-100 arm and lekiwi
Why are robotics so fun? It's an infinite game where you can teach robots to do limitless things; imagination is the only limit. And it's still early in the field, most things have not yet been done by robots.
I can’t believe it worked! The self driving screwdriver is alive! This was the first successful autonomous inference, fifth attempt total, and first model! I trained ACT for 10 hours on 100 episodes of training data I collected over the weekend.. I did not clean the dataset, I…
You can now play with @UnitreeRobotics robots on bambot.org! 🤗 These robots are fun to play with, but they got too many joints for a keyboard to control with, time to add more AI stuff on bambot!
You can now sync(batch) read positions of multiple servos with feetech.js bambot.org/feetech.js A step towards controlling robots with a leader robot
dora-bambot.github.io enables you to control your @huggingface SO101 directly from your chrome browser without having to install anything. Making sure that: - your servos are set up correctly - your URDF matches your setup - your serial port has the right permissions and is…
Build a product so good, your users do the marketing
🤩🤩 Can't wait to play with the model
Robotics models are increasingly bulky and difficult to run directly on robots. With @RemiCadene and the team @LeRobotHF and @huggingface we’re changing that. Introducing SmolVLA, a sub-500M VLA designed for efficient training and inference. A thread 🧵