{"id":677172,"date":"2026-05-17T18:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677172\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:25:10","slug":"asimov-is-an-open-source-humanoid-robot-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677172\/","title":{"rendered":"Asimov Is An Open Source Humanoid Robot For The Rest Of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for thinking you need pockets as deep as a car company to get into humanoid robotics \u2014 and maybe that was true once, but now Asimov v1 is here<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t have a positronic brain, and you\u2019ll have to code in the Three Laws for yourself, but at least you have the freedom to, because Asimov is open source.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not exactly cheap: the kit version comes with a target price of $15,000 USD, but they do provide the Bill of Materials on the GitHub repository so you can try and hunt down some deals. Still, compared to the millions poured into these sorts of robots in the early days, we have to consider it accessible. With 25 total degrees of freedom, you\u2019ll have to source a lot of actuators, but at least the onboard compute will be easy to get. Rather than begging CERN for spare positrons, you\u2019 only need a Raspberry 5 and a Radaxa CM5.<\/p>\n

No word on if this robot can write a symphony \u2014 though we\u2019ve seen software that can<\/a> \u2014 and its 5 kg personal best for squats and 18 kg single-arm lat raises aren\u2019t going to impress the bros at the gym. But hey, at least now you have someone to shake your chair for sim gaming.<\/a>\u00a0 If you\u2019re wondering what the deal with these androids is, well, so were we.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-677172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}