We’re building reliable, safe, low-cost, bi-manual manipulators (humanoids without legs) as a first step towards dirt-cheap programmable labor. This includes a clean-slate software stack for robotics from the compiler on up that is compact enough that an individual developer can understand and control it completely. We’re also building our own hardware using off-the-shelf quasi-direct-drive actuators with custom firmware.
Modern software is broken. Dependencies are not dependable. Most software is orders of magnitude more complex than it needs to be. Rather than striving to write clear, correct code, we're hurtling toward a world where code simply vanishes, leaving billions of inscrutable floating-point numbers in its wake.
We don’t have to live like this. Like smartphones, embodied intelligence is a new computational platform and an opportunity to build a better software stack. One that works seamlessly across diverse hardware and abstractions can unlock huge value, while others waste time battling bad ones.
Rajesh Poddar