Open Source Robot Company K-Scale Labs has announced a ~$9,000 personal robot. The entire robotics open source system: hardware, software, and machine learning infrastructure, all tightly integrated and ready for your use case. I am placing an order. I will also order Optimus.

“What are you going to do with that junk Apple. It’s not as fast as a real computer and you are dreaming if you think people will actually want to own a computer. Brian what the heck are they going to use it for, get real”—1977 Garage pioneers will hear this. Now with Robots.

@kscalelabs If toast takes this long imagine how long it will take to finish the laundry.

@kscalelabs Yep. Lived long enough to hear this about the Apple II. It’s interesting to see folks do the same thing over and over and try to find comedy in pioneering.

@kscalelabs Best part: Opensource This one is definitely interesting. Will look more on this later.

@kscalelabs 9000 toaster 🤣🤣😁

@kscalelabs Here ya go…

@kscalelabs Wondering if software upgrades will keep you from having to buy the next version. Or will they make them like they make washing machines and hot water tanks nowadays, so that you have to buy a new one in a few years.

@kscalelabs "get out of my way, you useless bag of bolts, you are too slow"

@kscalelabs I just want Rosie, when can I get Rosie.

@kscalelabs Open source robotics echoes how early computers evolved - from proprietary mainframes to the PC revolution. But neural nets need embodiment to truly learn (Pfeifer & Bongard, 2007). Physical robots interacting with the world will advance AI faster than pure software.