Gunjan Paul

Building robots @eyecandyrobots

[Bot News @BotNewsAI]

Rise of the robot pets! 🐕🤖

We’re entering the cutest era of robotics.

Engineers are working day and night on the physical AI problems: control, contact, sim-to-real, hardware reliability and getting learned behaviors to survive outside the lab.

And somewhere along the way, we get this.

@_raghuvamsi filmed one of @eyecandyrobots’ characters wandering around the Presidio, where a little girl spotted it and immediately started laughing and playing with it.

There’s something joyfully familiar about that reaction. Before we learn what something is, what it costs or what it’s supposed to do, sometimes we just want to meet it.

@eyecandyrobots is building physical AI characters,
robots designed around entertainment, personality and interaction rather than industrial work.

Founded by @_raghuvamsi, @Mankaran32 and @pr0t0_01, the team brings robotics engineers, animators and designers together to turn animated characters into physical ones.

Underneath the cute exterior is serious robotics work:

☑️Animation-based reinforcement learning for character motion
☑️ Artist-centric human-robot interaction
☑️Mechanical, electronics and AI systems designed to scale across different characters
☑️ Simulation, SLAM, deep learning and control-policy deployment on real hardware

The transparent little robot really looks like that.

I asked Eyecandy engineer @hi_gpaul how they made its clear body: it’s 3D printed using transparent resin, followed by “a bunch of post processing.”

Eyecandy is backed by @fdotinc and Lightspeed India, and the team is already thinking beyond a single character.

The robots are becoming useful.

I’m also very happy that some of them are becoming friends. 🦖

🔗 https://t.co/odDpP6uvLY☑️
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[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

Still continues to amaze people - from BLR to SF 🚀🚀

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Insanely good animations. These guys are going to kill it @_raghuvamsi @Mankaran32

[mansin @Mankaran32]

It's insane how well the animations transfer.

[mansin @Mankaran32]

For robotics x AI, @eyecandyrobots is most excited about animated characters entering the physical world.

A lot of pushing boundaries around RL, human-robot-interaction, mechanical designs.

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

Found this in a magazine

Kindof hits in a weird way……

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

@MacroWorld21 @pr0t0_01 remember something

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

@anindyadeeps Insane 🔥🔥🔥

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

@pr0t0_01 Nope - we were too busy with the bot that we forgot yo record it 😅

How ‘bout recreating it….

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

Thats why you need an estop - ideally a wireless one so you don’t lose your limbs✌️

[Techniahqrobot | humanoid robots @techniahqrobot]

Introverted kids when you ask them to go out in public.

Humanoid robot world humanoid robot game

[Shrivatsa Mudligiri @wtfvatsa]

never a dull day in the office pt 2

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

I still remember the day when Abhishek (@levelheaded_94) told me to design, build and deploy this device, and I said its not possible. But somehow, we were able to pull this off!

Building the capture device has been one of the highest points of growth and learnings for me. And I’m finally glad that we are now able to showcase this to the world.

Huge thanks to @levelheaded_94, @satpalsr and the entire @fpv_labs team for giving me the oppurtunity to work on this. My time with FPV Labs has since wrapped - but seeing this released to the world is something that I would be proud of forever ✌️

[FPV Labs @fpv_labs]

🚨 New Open Source Release

Today we are releasing Ego-OSCAR, an open-source head-mounted stereo-inertial capture device for egocentric data collection in the wild, together with a corresponding dataset of 550 hours captured across 100+ environments.

Egocentric data is still an active research problem, and we believe an open and accessible foundation will empower everyone to participate, experiment, build, and contribute to this space.

This continues our past efforts, where we open-sourced Stera, a full-stack capture and processing pipeline for RGB-D data. Ego-OSCAR builds on that lineage and offers a fully open-source stereo-inertial capture stack for anyone working on human-to-robot transfer.

We make three core contributions today with Ego-OSCAR:

1. An open-hardware capture device with full CAD, wiring, and assembly documentation, with a complete bill of materials under USD 200 and using commercially available components and 3D-printed parts.

2. An open-source capture pipeline (recording daemon, IMU sampler, time-sync tooling, watchdog firmware).

3. The Ego-OSCAR-550h dataset, approximately 550 hours of egocentric stereo video per camera with synchronized IMU, released to validate the device at deployment scale.

Everything is open-source, including the hardware designs, capture pipeline, firmware, and the downstream dataset.

Read the full blog at: https://t.co/qbEm8unXjw

[Alqama. S @pr0t0_01]

Isn't it hot?

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

@pr0t0_01 @anindyadeeps @smykx Yeah definitely possible - would be a crazy build

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

@pr0t0_01 😁😅

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

Certified hot 🔥

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

@SphoenixAI Its 3D printed using a transparent resin - and a bunch of post processing

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

Still captivated by the transparent panels ✨

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

Damn this looks sooo sickkk😍

[Astrobase Space @astrobase_space]

EVEREST — India’s first full-flow staged combustion (FFSC) rocket engine.

80-tonne class. Fully integrated. Designed and manufactured in Bengaluru, India.

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

@HiSohan I found a new one:

ttyTHS1

[Gunjan Paul @hi_gpaul]

Bro needs some sleep too 😴