Hey, we’re Axel and Vignesh, cofounders of Innate ( https://www.innate.bot/ ). We just launched MARS, a general-purpose robot with an open onboard agentic OS built on top of ROS2.
Overview: https://youtu.be/GEOMYDXv6pE
Control demo: https://youtu.be/_Cw5fGa8i3s
Videos of autonomous use-cases: https://docs.innate.bot/welcome/mars-example-use-cases
Quickstart: https://docs.innate.bot/welcome/mars-quick-start.
Our last thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451707
When we started we felt there is currently no good affordable general-purpose that anyone can build on. There’s no lack of demand: hugging face’s SO-100 and LeKiwi are pretty clear successes already; but the hardware is unreliable, the software experience is barebone and keeps changing, and you often need to buy hidden extras to make them work (starting with a computer with a good gpu). The Turtlebots were good, but are getting outdated.
The open-source hobbyist movement lacks really good platforms to build on, and we wanted something robust and accessible. MARS is our attempt at making a first intuitive AI robot for everyone.
What it is:
- It comes assembled and calibrated
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