Co-designed robot learning stack from scratch: full robot under $15,000
ChongZzZhang · x · 2026-11-04
tonytao describes a fully co-designed robot learning stack built from scratch: the mobile robot platform, the data collection system, and the policy training stack.
Key cost figures: the robot costs under $15,000, and the UMI handheld data-collection setup under $1,000. This is part 2 of an ongoing series with more details to come.
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