Many companies focus on building robots or hardware components to help them move, Scumor interacts with the world around them. Open focuses under the hood.
The Silicon Valley -based start makes a mattress of software, called OM1, for humanoid robots that act as a functional system. The company is compared to Android for robotics, because its software is open and unknown.
Professor Stanford Jan Liphardt, the founder of OpenMind, told Techcrunch that anthropoid and other robots were around and are able to do repetitive work for decades. But now that they develop anthropomic for cases of use that require more human-engine interactions, such as having a humanoid in your home, need a new operating system that thinks most as a human being.
“Suddenly, this world opens where the machines are able to interact with people in ways I certainly have never seen before,” Liphardt said. “We are very loyal here that it is not only for people, but we really think of ourselves as a company that is a cooperation between machines and people.”
OpenMind revealed on Monday a new protocol called Fabric that allows robots to verify the identity and share the frame and information with other robots.
Unlike people, machinery can learn almost immediately, Liphardt said, which means that it gives them a better way to connect to other robots will allow them to train more easily and absorb new information.
Liphardt set the example of the languages and the way the robots could be linked to each other and share data on how to speak different languages, which would help them interact better with more people without having to be taught in each language by one person immediately.
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“People see it as they can interact with any other person on earth,” Liphardt said. “People have built many infrastructure around us, which allows us to trust other people, to invite them, to text them and interact and coordinate and do things together.
OpenMind was founded in 2024 and promoted to send the first fleet of 10 robotic dogs with 10 OM1 to September. Liphardt said he was a great faithful to pick up the technology out there and do so after the event.
“We look forward to all the people who will accommodate these quadrupeds. They will return with a long list of things they didn’t like or want, and then it depends on us very much. It quickly repeats and improves the machinery,” he said.
The company recently increased a $ 20 million funding round led by Pantera Capital with Ribbit, Coinbase Ventures and Pebblebed, including angel investors and investors.
Now, the company is focusing on taking its technology in people’s homes and starting to repeat the product.
“The most important thing for us is to get a robot out there and get feedback,” Liphardt said. “Our goal as a company is to do as many of these tests as we can, so that we can quickly identify the most interesting opportunities where the potential of robots today are optimally at what people are looking for.”
