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New comment by alihkw_ in "K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers"

alihkw_ — Mon, 19 May 2025 03:11:49 +0000

That's our goal! We want to get cool robots into people's hands sooner rather than later:)

New comment by alihkw_ in "K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers"

alihkw_ — Mon, 19 May 2025 01:31:51 +0000

You do not need 15M USD/year to buy our robots. With 15M USD you could get ~1666 Kbots, or ~15,015 Zbots.

For reference, for the current Kbot to be 10% of your annual income, you would need to make $90,000 a year. And we plan to drive the cost down much much lower for the hardware.

New comment by alihkw_ in "K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers"

alihkw_ — Mon, 19 May 2025 01:21:51 +0000

Kscale engineer here: I'm honestly not sure what you mean by "the robots don't know their own positions". We have 2 fish eye lens cameras on the K-Bot, and an IMU, which allow the robot to estimate its 3D position(s) quite well.

The actuators also have encoders that allow you to read all of the joint positions very precisely.

PS: If the last time you saw the robots was last year, we encourage you to visit us again! Kscale robots improve fast :)

New comment by alihkw_ in "Show HN: Train and deploy your own open-source humanoid in Python"

alihkw_ — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:24:38 +0000

Kscale Engineer here: The hands are easily swappable using a camera lens style mount. We've tried a couple different hands, the main challenge is they have to fit many actuators in a small footprint.

The feet can also be changed, but not as easily. The bottom of the foot is screwed in.

Flat feet are interesting, the feet are actually a bit curved, they are designed that way to match their counterpart in sim which uses Mujoco's capsules.

I am personally very excited about hot swappable hands!