A humanoid open source robot for 3000 US dollars
Hugging Face presents a humanoid robot for 3000 US dollars that can walk and interact with objects.
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The AI company Hugging Face has presented HopeJr, an open-source humanoid robot. The robot, which costs just 3,000 US dollars, is designed to walk and interact with objects. According to TechCrunch, CEO Clem Delangue says that his company plans to start delivery at the end of the year.
The important thing about the project is that anyone can assemble the robots and understand how they work, TechCrunch quotes from an email from Delangue. This should prevent robotics from being dominated by a few large companies with black box systems.
A Hugging Face employee posted a video on X showing the robot. The movements of a young man are apparently transferred to the robot. The software records the movement data and uses it to train autonomous movements, the employee writes in a comment under the video.
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More robots from Hugging Face
In addition to HopeJr, the company has also announced the small tabletop robot Reachy Mini for testing AI applications. In April, Hugging Face acquired the start-up for humanoid robots Pollen Robotics, which presented the Reachy robot at CES in early 2020.
Interested parties can already build a simple AI robot arm with instructions from Hugging Face or buy one for little money. Hugging Face developed this arm together with the French robotics company The Robot Studio.
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