Podcast: OpenRoboto on training humanoid robot AI on decentralized networks
markjeffrey · x · 2026-08-19
Hash Rate Ep. 183 interviews Feishi Wang and quackbuilder of OpenRoboto, covering:
- Robot bodies vs AI brains; closed vs open source robot AI;
- Pi 0.5 and Hydro Point 5; the current state of humanoid robot autonomy;
- Training data acquisition challenges; open source and decentralized approaches;
- Efficiency of decentralized networks for AI training, plus Subnet progress (described as a shocking metric).
Related event: OpenRoboto Hits SOTA in Three Weeks, Championing Open Robot AI(3 posts)→
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