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It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, defin
by _joel 1mo ago
It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
- unglaublich 1mo agoWill Beni/monodorobotics have open source software, or at least a hackable stack?
- serf 1mo agoI believe the Microduck camera footage (the ad - reel) about 1000x more than the Mondo one.
- quadrature 1mo agoFor what it’s worth the mondo team has been posting development log videos on Reddit since before they incorporated. They raised money so they now have ads with more production value, but they came from small beginnings and I do trust their product.
- vavos 1mo agoThe mondo beni bot was featured on mkbhd recently looked to work pretty well and got a positive review, for what's that's worth [0] [0] - https://youtu.be/mfmdXPT7nAM https://youtu.be/mfmdXPT7nAM
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
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- Philip-J-Fry 1mo agoThat's a completely different class of robot. The Beni robot is just a toy, it's just connect the app and drive it around, record videos and do some fancy tricks like flips. It is not meant to be a platform you program yourself. The Microduck is meant to be a hacker toy. Train it yourself, write software, hack it, etc. It depends what you're trying to get for your daughter. Is it something to get her into robotics? Then probably the Microduck is the way. If it's literally just a toy, then the Beni robot is better because that's literally all it is.
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
- _joel 1mo agoyes to both :)
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
- asadm 1mo agoThe creators of Beni seem to have promised that the platform will be open (including sim2real parts of Beni). I have ordered Beni for my family. It's sturdy and more practical for careless fun.
- app134 1mo agoI'm an early backer and plan on jailbreaking Beni ASAP. Seems like really, really cool hardware. With Unitree bots all but banned in the US I've been looking to pivot away from that platform anyway. Took a couple months to jailbreak the Go2 platform initially, but I'm betting this will go even faster with modern agents
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
- neom 1mo agoMKBHD covered Beni the other day and it looks like a super super fun toy. Not sure about the educational value, but I was thinking about getting one for the kid in my life (me). https://youtu.be/mfmdXPT7nAM?t=592 https://youtu.be/mfmdXPT7nAM?t=592 (9:52)
- lumost 1mo agoAs a kick-starter project is this thing actually real? My experience with kick-starter has been that the projects are almost universally faked.
- _joel 1mo agototally, it's on MKBKD video posted in other comments. I watched it last week and hence why I'm split
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
- reaperducer 1mo agoAs a kick-starter project is this thing actually real? My experience with kick-starter has been that the projects are almost universally faked. I've only contributed to three kickstarters, and they all worked out well. But I think I'm more selective than most people, and generally don't jump on something until it's already been fully funded by other people.
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
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- monkeydust 1mo agoI got this for my kids https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doly/doly-more-than-a-robot https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doly/doly-more-than-a-r... earlier this year (after a much longer than expected wait on Kickstarter)...was good for a bit and had some fun but mostly gathering dust now. Occasionally will come out if friends are over.
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
- toasty228 1mo agoBoth are expensive e waste, companies come up every 5 years with these "house robots for kids", they're used for about 5 days, I've seen the cycle many times already
- random3 1mo agoMakes sense. Unless you can disassemble/reassemble. I guess selling kits (Meccano, Technics) would be the better approach. I recall countless hours building stuff and my kids love their Magnetiles and everything that lets them build in a free-form.
- robotresearcher 1mo agoThe household robot business other than vacuums are a classic way to lose your shirt, sadly. Many, many startups and several megacorps have burned their money. Robots are so fun to make, if you have that spirit in you! But alas they are very, very hard to make valuable outside of manufacturing /warehousing/weapons.
- dominotw 1mo agonerds cannot resist despite knowing this full well. "for kids"
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- _carbyau_ 1mo agoI love Battletech. If the IP holders ever get their shit together and have a properly walking Vulture/Mad-Dog, I'm sold. Bonus points for laser tag capability like those tabletop tanks.
- protocolture 1mo ago>If the IP holders ever get their shit together Well they have had a lot of time to get their shit together, and its not even happened a little tiny bit. But maybe one day they will die? And when the Mormon church inherits the IP they might use it a bit better.
- rtkwe 1mo agoBoni seems more like a closed project and I'd rather have something where access isn't an afterthought as indicated on the Kickstarter. > Right now, we simply haven't reached any conclusions regarding developer tools, documentation, or access. We haven't done the planning or the groundwork yet. Our current plan is to look into all of this after we've shipped the first batch and things settle down a bit.
- rokbenko 1mo ago[dead]
- tyre 1mo agoPersonally I wouldn't choose one that hasn't shipped. Hardware projects are notorious for delivering late, with fewer features, or not at all. Microduck looks amazing, but the "Ships before Christmas 2026" is begging to be blown past. That's why I'm not pre-ordering. If it's around in the spring, let's go, but considering that HuggingFace just got acquired by Nvidia, I'm not sure where this all will go.
- marcus_holmes 1mo ago100%, and I go further to "don't buy hardware until it hits version 3" - version 1 is full of bugs, version 2 tries to include all the stuff they couldn't fit into the original version 1, so it's not until version 3 they've got a clear idea of what the thing should be and how to make it without bugs. I have been wrong (I love my Remarkable 2), but it still holds as a principle ;)
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