apeytavin

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by apeytavin 2y ago
We do not ship to the UK for now, right now we're limiting ourselves to US for simplicity reasons and to iterate fast with our customers. As for the tech stack, you'll have a lot of access, the only thing you would not be able to
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Happy to read that, and looking forward to that moment!
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by apeytavin 2y ago
We simply don't allow that. If someone wants to train a physical task the data is sent to us for training, so we would not allow this. And even if you somehow did that, the brain itself has knowledge of what it task is and what to do w
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by apeytavin 2y ago
The coefficient of speeding up is not the same at different moments in the edit and it varies dynamically so I couldn't figure out how to make it change dynamically too. It's also distracting and we want folks to focus on the chai
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by apeytavin 2y ago
No YC does 4 batches a year now, and they're smaller batches. The Fall one just ended, and we were 93 companies presenting at Demo Day (vs ~250 during the summer).
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Love your username
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by apeytavin 2y ago
The LLM is deciding to use that skill at that time. The skill itself was trained beforehand by the user like shown in the docs, and the agent has information about what kind of context the task can be used in and recognizes that here is the
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Yes Burger!
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by apeytavin 2y ago
It's split between the bot and the cloud! High-level decision making and training is performed in the cloud for performance reasons, and low-level control and inference of VLAs is performed on the robot which has a GPU onboard! And yea
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by apeytavin 2y ago
What do you mean by framework? The underlying OS like ROS (that we use)? The algorithms manipulation, navigation, decision-making? On types of tasks, we're envisioning chores first. So laundry, cleaning, tidying up, dishes etc... That
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by apeytavin 2y ago
no u
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Also big time yes. Many folks would pay big money for a dumb robot that does just 1 or 2 tasks well - and even with that... how good is a Roomba really? It misses places, it gets stuck, and there's still 10M sold every year. You want a
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by apeytavin 2y ago
In my experience investors are actually too nice and don't tell you what they think. I'm European (French), I like folks that are direct and whom with we can discuss
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Haha thank you. But really, his message was full of very concrete remarks that help us get better at presenting what we do.
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Yes! We'll have to write a guide to explain how to plugin our AI agent, but it can work on any hardware for which the base controls display the right interface. If you want to chat more about what you need feel free to join our discord
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by apeytavin 2y ago
My cofounder is 2 meters away from me working on exactly that :) The first, small platform you see here is a first product but we're aiming bigger
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Happy to learn more about what you have in mind, there's a couple different things here it seems? Maurice is our base machine. We're going to open source the design and hardware so that users can change it - for example switch the
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Thank you, yes there's a lot of positive that can come out of this technology, and it needs to be developed with the help of everyone in order to get there
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by apeytavin 2y ago
I'll personally equip our team with EMP weapons when that happens
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Added in the FAQ, thank you!
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Oh sh*t you're right, the FAQ disappeared during the last redesign!
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Another great point you make here, and that I agree with is: Indeed some of these use-cases are already possible for cheaper and faster and better with other solutions. But each of these requires you to install something new in your home, w
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by apeytavin 2y ago
That's some concrete feedback :) On your example: You can also teach it to fill the glass with water before going to the plant. And you're right, this is not even close to something the mass public would use, but that's not o
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by apeytavin 2y ago
I understand, and trust me it bums me too, but it's just that the compute required to do everything onboard is not there. Once it is, we'll be able to get rid of it and do everything on edge. In theory it's already possible,
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Same for us back then! If I did it today though I would love to try using a RPi 5, these look incredible. But honestly NVIDIA just released their new Jetson Nano Super for 250$ and I think at this point it's a no-brainer to use this in
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by apeytavin 2y ago
Super cool, congrats man! This is how it started for us too! Check this out: https://x.com/ax_pey/status/1853462975216234851 And like you did, a SAM + VLM is the first thing we tried and it felt high-potential alr
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by apeytavin 2y ago
For sure! We see it as the perfect blend between physical and digital abilities, so tasks can be chained together very creatively. For this small form factor (25cm high), here is what we foresee (and it's a small subset of what's
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by apeytavin 2y ago
It might seem bad but that's actually one of the coolest things about this new approach: it's the core model (today GPT-4o) that decides where it goes. Here, this was a suboptimal decision by Maurice, and by default we indeed have
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by apeytavin 2y ago
The mobile base below the hull is a turtlebot 3 :) The arm is also a modified version of the open source arm by Alexander Koch We do a lot of it with off-the-shelf components, and we design the whole system so that we can quickly iterate, m
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by apeytavin 2y ago
TL;DR: Yes! You're not the first person to ask me this! If you look closely, there is actually a camera on the arm (that's partly how it learns tasks so fast) and we can use it to take pictures too. You can definitely define a pri

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