Affordable humanoid robot aims for the teaching hands of developers
Until now, pretty much all humanoid robots have come with an eye-watering price tag. Rotaku, a startup from the San Francisco Bay Area, thinks that's a solvable engineering problem and made its first move to change that.
The company just emerged from stealth with Domo, a humanoid robot starting at US$2,999. "Our goal is to make humanoid hardware more accessible to developers, educators, researchers, and smaller robotics teams," founder Takuzen Lu (also known as Zhuoran Lu) told me via email.
Lu studied computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and spent years living in Japan. This experience, he says, "shaped my interest in how technology can combine engineering, art, and everyday life." His team spans mechanical and industrial design, electrical engineering, embedded systems, motion control, and AI algorithm development.
We are a humanoid robotics startup from the Valley.
For the past year, we’ve been quietly building humanoid robots.
Today, we...
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