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Your next robotics project could start with these steps. Today, we're open-sourcing Asimov 1's locomotion policy and the training code behind it, giving developers a foundation to build on. Alongside the trained policy checkpoint, we're sharing our Isaac Lab-based training code, including reward definitions, hardware-tuned actuator configurations, and domain...

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Σ4 days ago

Love the project but the next step should definitely be to work on the legs so it doesn't walk like Biden

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Asimov4 days ago

It's now open-source. Your best walk is one pull request away 🧡

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Roushan4 days ago

Awesome

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satvik4 days ago

Wow finally!!!

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Indem4 days ago

Shipping the actuator config alongside the checkpoint is the detail I like here. For a deployed fleet, I’d carry that pairing into each robot’s run history. “Latest version” gets vague fast when hardware starts diverging.

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652,744 views • 29 days ago

Today I'm excited to introduce Hark, a new artificial intelligence lab building the most advanced, personal intelligence in the world We've been in stealth for 8 months, assembling one of the greatest AI and hardware teams on the planet I want to explain why I started Hark and what we're focused on I've spent the last 3 years working on the hardest AI challenge imaginable: giving AI a humanoid body. On the digital side, I've been using all the existing LLM chatbots - and I have to say, they feel incredibly dumb to me AGI, in the limit, should feel like a sci-fi movie. It should be able to listen and talk. It should have persistent memory and be highly personalized. It should see and touch the world. But we're far from this today We are crafting a new interface to AGI. Intelligence that lets you offload your mental workload into a system that begins to think like you and sometimes ahead of you We started Hark with one goal: build the world's most advanced personal intelligence - paired with next-generation hardware designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines
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Today I'm excited to introduce Hark, a new artificial intelligence lab building the most advanced, personal intelligence in the world We've been in stealth for 8 months, assembling one of the greatest AI and hardware teams on the planet I want to explain why I started Hark and what we're focused on I've spent the last 3 years working on the hardest AI challenge imaginable: giving AI a humanoid body. On the digital side, I've been using all the existing LLM chatbots - and I have to say, they feel incredibly dumb to me AGI, in the limit, should feel like a sci-fi movie. It should be able to listen and talk. It should have persistent memory and be highly personalized. It should see and touch the world. But we're far from this today We are crafting a new interface to AGI. Intelligence that lets you offload your mental workload into a system that begins to think like you and sometimes ahead of you We started Hark with one goal: build the world's most advanced personal intelligence - paired with next-generation hardware designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines

Brett Adcock

1,415,284 views • 6 months ago

384GB of VRAM. On your desk. Not in a datacenter. Autonomous, the company behind SmartDesk, just open sourced complete build guides for a personal AI computer that runs open models on hardware no one can switch off. It's called Autonomous Computer. Three configurations, one philosophy: a model you rent can be cut off overnight. A model running in your own house can't. → Home build: 2x RTX 5090 workstation → Team build: 4x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 384GB VRAM → On-prem business build: 8x RTX 4090/5090, up to 256GB VRAM Every config ships with the full bill of materials, 3D printable and CNC housing files, wiring diagrams, BIOS tuning, and assembly photos. Software side covers OS setup, NVIDIA drivers, and serving open models through Ollama, vLLM, and llama.cpp. Fork it. Change it. Build it. Sell it. MIT License. 100% Opensource. Repo:
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384GB of VRAM. On your desk. Not in a datacenter. Autonomous, the company behind SmartDesk, just open sourced complete build guides for a personal AI computer that runs open models on hardware no one can switch off. It's called Autonomous Computer. Three configurations, one philosophy: a model you rent can be cut off overnight. A model running in your own house can't. → Home build: 2x RTX 5090 workstation → Team build: 4x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 384GB VRAM → On-prem business build: 8x RTX 4090/5090, up to 256GB VRAM Every config ships with the full bill of materials, 3D printable and CNC housing files, wiring diagrams, BIOS tuning, and assembly photos. Software side covers OS setup, NVIDIA drivers, and serving open models through Ollama, vLLM, and llama.cpp. Fork it. Change it. Build it. Sell it. MIT License. 100% Opensource. Repo:

Harman

48,052 views • 2 months ago