Machenta brings a robot to London's King's Cross to let the public teach it on the spot
Ed__Johns · x · 2026-11-06
A week after announcing Machenta, the team placed a robot in the middle of London's King's Cross station to see what would happen. For the first time, members of the public could walk up with their own objects and teach the robot tasks on the spot — a real-world test of "Instant Robot Learning." The thread describes what they observed during the experiment.
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