Desktop Robot Startup eyecandy: SLAM on $10 Chips, Entertainment-First Path to Shipping
k7agar · x · 2026-09-26
Robotics startup eyecandy laid out its roadmap, positioning entertainment as the best category to make robotics sustainable and scalable, with shipping starting soon:
- An advanced human-robot-interaction module
- Generalist RL policies
- SLAM with loop closures running on $10 chips
- Rapid hardware dev cycles for new characters
Their thesis: the algorithms stay the same — solve robotics on the desk first. The poster praises them as a talent-dense, grounded team shipping genuinely cute robots.
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