Details from the Figure 8-hour shift most people missed:
• 3 bots in the PoC, one active at a time
• Low battery triggers a fresh bot to take over, depleted one charges for an hour
• Bots that hit issues route themselves for repair
• Barcode scanning at 90% effectiveness with packages set face-down
• Any robot in the factory fleet can dock and take over
Leans on fleet redundancy and controlled inputs. Edge cases in uncontrolled environments are the open question.
@Servo_Soul The deployment gap isn't solved by better models alone but by better human-robot orchestration. Every edge case an operator handles becomes a training example and every intervention tightens the loop. Nice work guys!
A quick preview of what we’re submitting to the @Pumpfun Build in Public Hackathon.
Robots are becoming economic actors. Like smartphones, they need a backend to participate in an economy.
We’ve already shipped the x402 Action Node, a toolkit for robot owners to add paid actions.
For the hackathon, we’re building an execution layer on top of it.
A three-sided system where:
- Fleet operators manage robots, pricing, and policy.
- Robots and drones register capabilities and execute paid work.
- Humans or AI agents request and orchestrate tasks.
One demonstrated use case is Teleoperation on Demand where a robot hires a human to resolve an edge case, then returns to autonomy.
Another is machine-to-machine coordination: a drone inspecting a robot or retrieving a tool from it as a paid, orchestrated action, using the same execution layer.
This is how robots participate in real economies.
Building in public.
Set up clawdbot on Brewie robot last night. via TG instructed bot to access ROS pkgs + sensors + avoid harm, and check body components. performed 2 radian head move via ‘headtilt’ and published wave via ‘set_action’.
Instructed take photo and send to TG - grainy, but real.
Teleoperation can be a bridge to full autonomy.
Vay shows in driving that latency is manageable with local autonomy and short human interventions.
The same lessons apply to humanoid “teleop on demand” - and that’s what we’re designing at Homebrew.