Benjamin Bolte
@benjamin_bolte
Moving humanity up the Kardashev scale @kscalelabs Former AI researcher and engineer at Tesla, Facebook, Google and Amazon
Humanoid robots 🤖 Designed in California 🤙 Made in Texas 🤠 Free as in Freedom 🇺🇲 Affordable to everyone 💲 More to come
Apparently Japanese people like humanoid robots. Very happy
After receiving tons of email orders from robotics communities around the world, we are expanding K-Bot deliveries to: Japan🇯🇵 Singapore 🇸🇬 South Korea 🇰🇷 kscale.dev The humanoid movement is global. 🌏🤖
kscale.dev was one of the first to order the upcoming open source humanoid robot from @kscalelabs and had the pleasure of meeting their CEO Ben who is an incredibly brilliant mind. If you buy one though please put my name down for referral.. I want my gold edition!
Huge congrats to the K-Scale team for shipping the most affordable US humanoid by a wide margin!
K-Bot is the world’s first open-source humanoid robot that is affordable, available and made in America. Robots should serve people and empower anyone to build the future, not just big corporations. ➡️Order now kscale.dev
This is the most comprehensive summary I've seen of our journey so far. Looking forward to the next ten years
You’ve never heard of them. But next week, they’re shipping your first personal robot. It’s open-source. Garage-built. Costs $8,999. Here’s why they might change robotics forever 🧵
Unitree is preparing for an IPO in China ⦿ Unitree Robotics has officially begun its IPO counseling process with the Chinese Securities Regulatory Bureau. ⦿ Unitree has completed 10 funding rounds to date, with its latest round pushing its valuation to 10 billion RMB (~$1.4B)…
This is pretty cool. I started K-Scale because I wanted to buy a humanoid robot, so I knew I would have at least one customer. Great to see that N > 1
Wow, incredible to pass $1M in orders since launch on July 1st! We launched K-Bot to give the world an open-source humanoid robot anyone can own. Thank you to everyone who ordered! The Humanoids revolution just got started 🚀🚀🚀
A/C, washer-dryers, vacuums, radios, and other domestic tech fundamentally reshaped American life & productivity from the 40s-70s, creating the American century. What impact will consumer robots in America have on the 21st century? @kscalelabs and @benjamin_bolte are moving us…
K-Bot is the world’s first open-source humanoid robot that is affordable, available and made in America. Robots should serve people and empower anyone to build the future, not just big corporations. ➡️Order now kscale.dev
"If you worked at Tesla, you should know how to compete with Tesla… right?" "'@elonmusk is just a guy".' In this clip, @benjamin_bolte talks about the real uphill battle of building @kscalelabs and why insider knowledge alone isn’t enough when you’re going up against giants…
Get ready
Your First Personal Robot Coming July 1st
Was great talking!
🎙️ I talked with @benjamin_bolte, founder of @kscalelabs, who left Meta to build something he actually believes in: an open-source humanoid robot! After working on Autopilot at Tesla, he saw the inside of Optimus and decided the big players were getting it wrong. Benjamin walks…
🚀 Introducing LeVERB, the first 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗩𝗟𝗔 (upper- & lower-body), trained on sim data and zero-shot deployed. Addressing interactive tasks: navigation, sitting, locomotion with verbal instruction. 🧵 ember-lab-berkeley.github.io/LeVERB-Website/
K-Scale Labs will manufacture their humanoid robots in Dallas, Texas.
Humanoid robots 🤖 Designed in California 🤙 Made in Texas 🤠 Free as in Freedom 🇺🇲 Affordable to everyone 💲 More to come
Sam Altman says he’s excited about a future where signing up for ChatGPT’s highest tier gets you a free humanoid robot. ⦿ The mechanical engineering and AI for humanoids are quite hard but feel within grasp. ⦿ Making a billion humanoid robots will take a while; maybe the first…
fun little project: made a mujoco viewer - live plots and helpful debugging stats. - it runs in a separate process so it won't block your physics loop. it's already helped me catch some gnarly bugs. all in python and open source! 🔗 👇
okay maybe I shouldn't be throwing stones (identities obscured for the grieving family's privacy)
deeply troubled by what I witnessed today. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…