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Oh yeah, my bad, thanks for noticing

We spent a lot of sweat to make it all transferable from one robot to another easily. It is our goal that we all have robots that feel alive and that we can all develop together.

Happy to have you onboard!

emoji-salute sir

The agentic OS allows to abstract away from ROS2 by creating the concept of "skills" that can be triggered by the agent; you don't really have to care anymore about defining nodes or racing conditions between them, our framework is a lottle simpler in that way. Triggering a skill is the equivalent (almost) to triggering an action in ROS2 btw.

But the interest of it is how it is packaged and that it can be triggered by this VLM-based agent called BASIC that we created.

This agent has a special kind of architecture which gives it spatial memory, capability to react in time, and ability to navigate. This means that skills can be triggered in the right place at the right time, like a true entity. BASIC can interrupt skills in execution depending on how you configure it. So that if it's chilling navigating around and it sees you, it would interrupt navigation and get to you, shake hands and ask if you need help instead of finishing the task without reacting.

Hope this helps!

There's several things but for example, there is no LiDAR on it nor even a good place to put one. If you're going to navigate around, without a LiDAR or good compute for VSLAM (which is very hard to setup and VERY demanding in compute), you will very quickly get lost. At this point the Kiwi is only for very local navigation (and you will still have IMU drift).

There is also a possibility for it to tip the base if the arm is fully extended. And the SO-101 has quite poor repeatability.

The base is also slow to move, and depending on which surface you are the omniwheels can get dirt in quickly.

Finally, external compute means you need in particular to teleoperate from your computer, so you have to be far from the robot and not necessarily in the same orientation than it which is very, very uncomfortable. This app system we made is one of the things people love the most about MARS.

Ah, and RGBD really does matter for navigation AND for learning (augmenting ACT with depth yields better results).

The wheels are indeed these ones, and the camera on the video is a luxonis oak-d wide, pretty expensive but comfortable to work with. However, the version we're shipping includes a much cheaper stereo-depth camera that we calibrate ourselves - I can't get you the reference right right now cause it's late at night but feel free to reach out on discord

If we could sell it without we would for sure, but this is a current technological limitation. And we make extra easy to connect to it anywhere still, from your phone. Several components of the robots do not need this cloud service, and because the OS is accessible to you, you could even replace it with your own of doing things.

For this one, it's just the only feasible way we found to bring the kind of experience we created to folks.

That would not make it a complete product and would always require a complex setup whenever and wherever you want to use it.

This one is really, really convenient and intuitive. Turn it on anywhere, even outside, it just works. Even when I want to dev on it, it's super convenient.

On some level I truly believe robotics has to become more "complete", we can't always just piece things together, it makes it very hard to have a beautiful product.

I realize this is more of a philosophical answer, but I also think it is the right one to take this field to the next level

of course

Absolutely, the link I sent you has these specs you mentioned listed.

And yeah, I agree this mid-market is indeed tough, but this is the upper price I was looking for when I started with my AI background and bought a similar-price turtlebot then struggled to put a cheap arm on it. Anything under this is really bad for algorithms, although you can reduce it with just the arm and clamping it to your workspace as you suggested but then you don't have mobility.

I will keep your comment in mind, and thank you for the thoughtfulness. You might be interested to know that we intend to show something bigger not long from now. But this is, as you said, more for investors.

For now I'm content if there's enough people that want this one

I can assure your this was a strong consideration of ours and all assets underwent a very strict regime. There is definitely more than other types of website but it's in the median of other robots websites with significants amount of videos.

Not to say I dismiss the comment, definitely looking at it cause it might come from somewhere else. Just that I yet don't see what is the bottleneck.

Hey, OP here, just sharing that I only wrote the first answer to your comment, not the next one. Wouldn't want to dismiss your issue!

I have been running performance checks during the morning and tried with other browsers, used the debugging tools. I can see why it could be slow but I definitely need more trials to understand where it comes from. Bear with us while we're on it :)

and as i said earlier, this is really helpful for us to know so thank you