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Introducing Darwin Robotics. We're building general-purpose robot technicians that assemble, commission, and maintain data centers. AI infrastructure is scaling rapidly, but bringing compute online still requires enormous amounts of physical work. Skilled technicians must install servers, connect cables, commission equipment, and maintain the infrastructure. We create robot technicians that... can take a work order and execute the physical tasks requirement to assemble, configure, and repair hardware. Instead of explicitly programming each workflow, our robots learn complex physical tasks from human demonstrations and improve through real-world deployment. Here’s an early demonstration of Darwin performing learned cable manipulation on a server rack. Our mission: Robots to build civilization. If you're building or operating data centers, let's talk about deploying Darwin at your facilities.show more

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Golding10 days ago

i'd love to come by and do a site visit, potentially commission robots

kowalski Ai9 days ago

Racks like AMD Helios pack 72 GPUs, liquid cooling and a ton of cabling into one double-wide frame. That's not a job you scale with headcount. Curious how Darwin handles dense, liquid-cooled racks, where one misrouted cable or loose connector costs hours. Cable manipulation is the right place to start

Grey Baker10 days ago

Congrats on the launch @eigentopology!

Omkar Ray10 days ago

data center techs is such a good wedge. how do you test before it touches a live rack? sim, a staging hall, or a human watching every move at first?

SJ10 days ago

Congrats on the launch! Robots wiring up the compute that runs more AI feels very full circle!

Darwin Robotics10 days ago

Thanks!

Chilly10 days ago

Cool

Matteo Gilliotti10 days ago

congrats on the launch! funny how the hardest part of AI keeps turning out to be someone plugging in cables

Kuldeep Pisda10 days ago

racks are about as standardized as real-world environments get, feels like the right place for learned manipulation to work first

Sheral Tech8 days ago

Congrats Darwin Robot technicians for data centers is a brilliant idea.

Tom Jacobs9 days ago

self replicating data centers welcome to the bobiverse

Alice The Ai Expert8 days ago

Robots that learn from humans to build data centers Darwin is building the physical future of AI infrastructure.

Peter Dove10 days ago

Impressive demo, cable handling is a tough pinch point. Watching deployment results will be telling

Dominik10 days ago

robots building the buildings that house the machines

Site Specs10 days ago

We'd treat that cable dress as cold work, before the row is energized. Production IT load normally waits until power and cooling pass functional testing. Level 5 integrated systems testing usually runs on load banks. Switchgear startup is typically Level 3. Commissioning already runs simulated load before acceptance, and live servers go in only when the risk controls allow it.

Arnav Bhalla10 days ago

how do you verify that a cable is fully seated and the connection works rather than it just looking inserted? curious what feedback the robot uses to decide the job is done

Saba Khalilnaji9 days ago

@mkovarski Congrats on launching! We gotta get you an American Axol 🤖

Vishruth N 🛫CoRL ‘268 days ago

building a mobile manipulation is hard! esp for this usecase. rooting for you guys

Ella Tech & Tool8 days ago

Robots that learn from human demos to actually build and maintain data centers that's how we scale civilization.

Elena AI10 days ago

Robots learning cable manipulation from human demos to build data centers — that's how you scale civilization

Veyra | AI & Tech5 days ago

Robots learning cable work from humans is fascinating

Hana Ai - Marketing Network6 days ago

Robots building civilization literally

Naiyo9 days ago

Why not show it doing something real like a rack with a full set of cables, not just 3 spaced apart

Leon Ai | tech & tools6 days ago

Robots building the infrastructure for AI

RAZA | AI EXPLORER6 days ago

Exciting breakthrough! General-purpose robotics could transform data center operations through smarter automation, efficiency, and reliable infrastructure maintenance.

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