merthin 🇦🇺

two students building robots + some bullshit here and there

[merthin 🇦🇺 @merthinrobotics]

@Luke_Harriman bet

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First render of our heavy duty humanoid torso and arm design. Decals next👀

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@Luke_Harriman Yep we just buy the frameless motors and build the rest. Full BOM is about 3k

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Slowly this time so it doesn’t explode again

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@mingfarmbots Roughly human size

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We are so back

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@AsherNoble20109 @orcahand @o1labs_xyz

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@PPPeggyL 🙏

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@JulianFried

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Transporting bro to the hospital

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@i2cjak

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@i2cjak

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Is this optimal?

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@TomPJacobs Sydney

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Wiring is a mf

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@TomPJacobs yessir

[merthin 🇦🇺 @merthinrobotics]

I think there’s a lot of use cases that suit humanoids better than stationary factory work that require some level of macro/athletic skill so I think this definitely serves a purpose. It’s also possibly the coolest alternative to regular HALT testing

[Eren Chen @ErenChenAI]

Another angle of the robot crashing straight into the wall, sparks flying everywhere.

To be honest, I think China’s robotics industry may be over-optimizing for speed right now.

Last year, running and dynamic motion control were meaningful because they proved a basic point: before a humanoid can do useful work, it first needs a capable body.

But once that foundation exists, simply making the robot run faster gives you diminishing returns.

If we put cognition on one axis and physical capability on the other, this year’s competition feels heavily skewed toward the physical side. Faster running, more aggressive motion, harder impacts, while some very basic capabilities are still missing.

Knowing when to slow down, when to stop, and how to stop safely matters just as much as how fast you can run. That kind of judgment is also part of what makes a robot actually intelligent.

A robot that can sprint incredibly fast but has no idea when to brake feels like a student who aced one subject and ignored the rest.

At the end of the day, our goal is to have a robot that can safely and reliably work around people and actually get things done.

[merthin 🇦🇺 @merthinrobotics]

Really cool to see a humanoid with superhuman physical abilities that isn’t just specialised to do one thing really well. I’m sick of hand demos I want to see some more shit like this

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

Unitree New Robot Preview: “Superman” Breaking the Limits of Humanity🥳
Standing high jump 2 m, top speed 12.66 m/s (0.85 m leg length)
Surpassing the standing high jump and running speed records of all humans around the world
This new machine has only been in development for a little over three months, with significant room for further improvement in the coming months.

[merthin 🇦🇺 @merthinrobotics]

@UnitreeRobotics Somebody get this man a gun

[merthin 🇦🇺 @merthinrobotics]

Wiring the first arm of the bot. Slightly suboptimal cable management

[Ville🤖 @VilleKuosmanen]

probably 90% of our failures is due to USB devices choosing to disconnect for no reason