Robotics lead at 120ft factory. Previously founding engineer at k-scale labs (YC W24): first ecosystem of open-source humanoid robots, 200+ units pre-ordered for $2M+.
— why?
machines should add more to the world than they take from it, people and nature both richer for it. until then, i keep building.
built the robotics stack for a fleet of humanoids learning assembly for small-batch, high-variety manufacturing. Teleop, sim, and policy rollouts with interventions all grow one dataset; the robots put in 6-hour days at 60–70% subtask success.
started as a skunkworks project with two other engineers over winter break, tearing down our old robots to understand why they failed. Four months later it was the company flagship: the first open-source humanoid to deploy RL walking and VLA manipulation, 35 units in the wild.
a 2-ft humanoid for learning RL control. Shipped the first batch fast, watched 70% fail at a hackathon, rebuilt from what we learned. It went on to teach RL at stanford’s CS234, drew a 20k waitlist, and launched at CES.
— other projects
— odds and ends