Hugging Face has unveiled LeRobot Humanoid, a $2,500…
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Hugging Face has unveiled LeRobot Humanoid, a $2,500 open-source bipedal robot for researchers and developers. Built from 3D-printed and off-the-shelf parts, it prioritizes affordability, repairability, and reproducible robotics research over competing with high-end commercial humanoids.
I'm fascinated by the way AI and robotics is developing counter to many people's expectations. In particular, science fiction has left us with some very ingrained dystopian ideas that people struggle to think differently from.
One of those very prevalent ideas is that AI and robotics will be tightly controlled by a tiny number of people and be a very rare resource. All the indications are that the exact opposite is happening.
Free open source AI is the equal of the closed source efforts that investors have pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into. Is the same trend happening with robotics?. While there will always be premium models like Ferraris and Lamborghinis, with the people to afford them, I wonder if the future will be dominated by huge numbers of widely owned, cheap robots?
3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild: Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/3d-printable-humanoid-legs-let-robotics-experiments-run-wild/ ?
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I'm fascinated by the way AI and robotics is developing counter to many people's expectations. In particular, science fiction has left us with some very ingrained dystopian ideas that people struggle to think differently from.
One of those very prevalent ideas is that AI and robotics will be tightly controlled by a tiny number of people and be a very rare resource. All the indications are that the exact opposite is happening.
Free open source AI is the equal of the closed source efforts that investors have pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into. Is the same trend happening with robotics?. While there will always be premium models like Ferraris and Lamborghinis, with the people to afford them, I wonder if the future will be dominated by huge numbers of widely owned, cheap robots?
3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild: Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/3d-printable-humanoid-legs-let-robotics-experiments-run-wild/ ?
#technology
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