Your Personal Open-Source Humanoid Robot for $8,999
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An open-source humanoid platform sells pre-orders at $8,999 with full CAD, PCB, firmware and ML released under MIT, aiming for delivery by October; hardware uses MIT Cheetah actuators, swappable end effectors, battery running about two hours, and up to 250 TOPS compute. Local motion runs on RL controllers trained in MJX with a Python/Rust SDK and KSsim for one‑IP sim→real deployment, with walking policies training in one to two hours and an active community of ~5,000 on Discord.
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- 0:00Introduction to Kscale Labs
- 1:24Kbot humanoid features
- 6:12Introducing the Zbot
- 7:50Open-source software stack
- 11:14Robot training and deployment
- 12:37Community and hiring
- 14:04Q&A session
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