we organized the first robotics hackathon at @ycombinator with 120 of the best builders from around the world
and definitely full-stack hacks are the best hacks
here’s a bit of what we learned and saw
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Announcing our second hackathon speaker: the goat of robotics @chris_j_paxton
This is gonna be a fun weekend @ycombinator, if you haven't applied to hack yet this is the last day
We are bringing @NASA's Chief AI Officer to @ycombinator this weekend for Robohacks
The day after the landing of Artemis 🌎🌔
This is the first of our speakers for the opening ceremony, next one announced tomorrow
Time to build general-purpose robots, on hardware made in SF
We are bringing @NASA@GoogleDeepMind@scale_AI and more at @ycombinator for a general-purpose robotics hackathon
Each team will have a robot and compete across all Al modalities to make the coolest AI project
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We made a physical AI agent that navigates in your home
Our robot starts in a minute, can talk and listen, and use an arm
This runs on @innate_bot MARS, our open-source agentic platform–here with a @GeminiApp based agent
⬇️ Closed beta available right-now
we made our robot calibrate its depth camera by holding a sign with its little arm
you only have to put a cardboard in its hand and press a button in the app
pretty cool :)
It would be amazing if every school had a couple @innate_bot robots or huggingface so101s. Great way to get kids excited about tech, engineering, software if they can actually see robots moving around. If this is the future we should act like it
@shreyasgite@chris_j_paxton That's the goal, with a particular focus on productization
We put in a lot of work in getting the best of research in a working affordable product for everyone. And if you make something great with it, it will be implemented on others and you get rewarded for its use