Solo Dev Launches Semi-Humanoid Robotics Startup, Seeks Founding Engineers
neurosp1ke · x · 2026-08-01
A developer has shared their robotics experiments from the past six months and announced they are going all-in to form a team to build a Semi-Humanoid robot from scratch.
Product Roadmap:
- Hardware: 7-DoF arms, dexterous hands, mobile base, and a pan/tilt stereo head.
- Software & Data: Plans to build a teleop data pipeline and policies to run it, targeting a working prototype by the end of the year.
Hiring:
Looking for 2-3 guru-level AI and robotics engineers based in Germany (near Münster) to handle arms/grippers, data collection/retargeting, mapping/navigation, and inference. Students are also welcome to assist with annotations.
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