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Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot

133 points by base698 1y ago

gobdovan 1y ago
> Toddler > Does a perfect Cartwheel in the first clip Damn clankers ’roid their babies.
nativeit 1y ago
> insert “Jurassic Park” meme
tamimio 1y ago
Looks awesome, thanks for the share!
acyou 1y ago
The cartwheel fails are pretty brutal, it never learned how to catch itself and break its own fall. Cartwheel is a remarkable demo, I initially thought it was a joke and fake until I saw the blooper reel. Now I half believe it.
- numpad0 1y ago
  Those bots never learn by themselves. It's same as how animations on beautiful LPs don't write themselves. They're all "fake" in that sense, but also "real" in the sense that they would not be just gifs or mp4s but callbacks would be firing and running on customer browsers.
  - imtringued 1y ago
    Figuring out the meaning of the acronym "LP"s will be for the archeologists to decipher, I suppose. EDIT: Future archeologist here (3 minutes after posting). It stands for "Live Performance", which is an unnecessarily obscure way of saying something that isn't obvious from the context alone. EDIT2: Or it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record
    - burblesnap 1y ago
      I think they meant Landing Page but I was also confused for awhile.
yumraj 1y ago
Is there a cheaper/starter version, can still use Jetson nano but the rest of the BOM is more starter friendly :)
egamirorrim 1y ago
I have visions of buying/building one to feed my cats and bring packages from my porch, is this crazy ambitious? Edit: Just seen that 'low cost' means $6k, LMAO
- danielbln 1y ago
  Automated cat feeders already exist, we have a water fountain, a kibble feeder than needs monthly refill and a wet food feeder that is stocked once per day.
  - askl 1y ago
    And package dropboxes also exist. Not every problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots. (Almost no problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots actually)
    - hahajk 1y ago
      > Almost bo problem... I've heard this before but I don't think I believe it. I spend many hours every week 1. picking up clutter and putting it away 2. sorting clean clothes into drawers (I have a family of 5) and 3. shuttling dishes to/from the dishwasher. I would pay quite a bit of money to stop doing those things. Especially #1. Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?
      - askl 1y ago
        > Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing? Yeah, just hire someone to do that for you. It will probably cost far less than " quite a bit of money".
        bluGill 1y ago
        That depends on where you live. In India you can pay people to do this for less than $1/day. My coworkers there generally are paying 2 people that price even though there isn't enough work to keep even one busy - that way if one servant quits they don't have to do the work themselves. For me I'd have to pay something like $30/hour after you account for taxes, their take-home would be in the $15-20/hour range. I'd also have to learn a foreign language because almost nobody who speaks English (or even Spanish) will accept a part time job making that little part time. I'd need an accountant to figure out the exact price of course so more cost but lets just work with $30/hour. It would cost me nearly $10,000 per year to have such a servant in the US, and the only reason it is less is I can expect servants to quit often enough that I never have one for the full year as they find other jobs that are better (30*365 = 10950 if they work every day) That is why so many Americans (and Europeans) want robots - there are a lot of tedious things that we are doing ourselves that we would love to have someone else do but labor is so expensive we can't afford it. Even if you live below the poverty line in these countries you realistically have a rich lifestyle in many ways - HVAC, lights, smart phones... modern life as provided many luxuries that kings of the past couldn't get (don't get me wrong, life for the poor is hard despite those luxuries)
saivishwak 1y ago
This is Cool! Do we have Mujoco Sim available for doing further research using VLA.
yoavm 1y ago
Super impressive work! Can't wait for these to be a little more budget friendly so that it would be viable for small hacking around the house.
numpad0 1y ago
Two DOF for waist! That's some dedication.
rhaps0dy 1y ago
Super cool work!! How much of a limitation is it to have the robot be basically 3D-printable? Though I can see it's basically required for making it buildable by others.
curtisszmania 1y ago
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PiraticSomate 1y ago
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133 points by base698 1y ago

gobdovan 1y ago

> Toddler > Does a perfect Cartwheel in the first clip Damn clankers ’roid their babies.

nativeit 1y ago

> insert “Jurassic Park” meme

tamimio 1y ago

Looks awesome, thanks for the share!

acyou 1y ago

The cartwheel fails are pretty brutal, it never learned how to catch itself and break its own fall. Cartwheel is a remarkable demo, I initially thought it was a joke and fake until I saw the blooper reel. Now I half believe it.

numpad0 1y ago
Those bots never learn by themselves. It's same as how animations on beautiful LPs don't write themselves. They're all "fake" in that sense, but also "real" in the sense that they would not be just gifs or mp4s but callbacks would be firing and running on customer browsers.
- imtringued 1y ago
  Figuring out the meaning of the acronym "LP"s will be for the archeologists to decipher, I suppose. EDIT: Future archeologist here (3 minutes after posting). It stands for "Live Performance", which is an unnecessarily obscure way of saying something that isn't obvious from the context alone. EDIT2: Or it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record
  - burblesnap 1y ago
    I think they meant Landing Page but I was also confused for awhile.

yumraj 1y ago

Is there a cheaper/starter version, can still use Jetson nano but the rest of the BOM is more starter friendly :)

egamirorrim 1y ago

I have visions of buying/building one to feed my cats and bring packages from my porch, is this crazy ambitious? Edit: Just seen that 'low cost' means $6k, LMAO

danielbln 1y ago
Automated cat feeders already exist, we have a water fountain, a kibble feeder than needs monthly refill and a wet food feeder that is stocked once per day.
- askl 1y ago
  And package dropboxes also exist. Not every problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots. (Almost no problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots actually)
  - hahajk 1y ago
    > Almost bo problem... I've heard this before but I don't think I believe it. I spend many hours every week 1. picking up clutter and putting it away 2. sorting clean clothes into drawers (I have a family of 5) and 3. shuttling dishes to/from the dishwasher. I would pay quite a bit of money to stop doing those things. Especially #1. Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?
    - askl 1y ago
      > Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing? Yeah, just hire someone to do that for you. It will probably cost far less than " quite a bit of money".
      - bluGill 1y ago
        That depends on where you live. In India you can pay people to do this for less than $1/day. My coworkers there generally are paying 2 people that price even though there isn't enough work to keep even one busy - that way if one servant quits they don't have to do the work themselves. For me I'd have to pay something like $30/hour after you account for taxes, their take-home would be in the $15-20/hour range. I'd also have to learn a foreign language because almost nobody who speaks English (or even Spanish) will accept a part time job making that little part time. I'd need an accountant to figure out the exact price of course so more cost but lets just work with $30/hour. It would cost me nearly $10,000 per year to have such a servant in the US, and the only reason it is less is I can expect servants to quit often enough that I never have one for the full year as they find other jobs that are better (30*365 = 10950 if they work every day) That is why so many Americans (and Europeans) want robots - there are a lot of tedious things that we are doing ourselves that we would love to have someone else do but labor is so expensive we can't afford it. Even if you live below the poverty line in these countries you realistically have a rich lifestyle in many ways - HVAC, lights, smart phones... modern life as provided many luxuries that kings of the past couldn't get (don't get me wrong, life for the poor is hard despite those luxuries)

saivishwak 1y ago

This is Cool! Do we have Mujoco Sim available for doing further research using VLA.

yoavm 1y ago

Super impressive work! Can't wait for these to be a little more budget friendly so that it would be viable for small hacking around the house.

numpad0 1y ago

Two DOF for waist! That's some dedication.

rhaps0dy 1y ago

Super cool work!! How much of a limitation is it to have the robot be basically 3D-printable? Though I can see it's basically required for making it buildable by others.

curtisszmania 1y ago

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PiraticSomate 1y ago

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