OS3
Affordable, intelligent humanoid robots built to deploy at scale
About OS3
OS3 is building the platform that makes intelligent robots accessible to every business. Today, robotics is constrained by two fundamental bottlenecks: hardware is too expensive to deploy at scale, and robots are difficult to train because high-quality robotics data is scarce and costly to collect. We built OS3 to solve both. Our two-person team designed and a US-made mobile humanoid robot for a fraction of the cost of commercial alternatives. On the intelligence side, instead of relying on expensive robot-generated training data, we trained our own video-action model on 150,000 hours of real-world video spanning more than 2,000 tasks. Every deployed robot feeds new experience into our reinforcement learning pipeline, self improving robot fleet over time. This creates a robot that can be deployed across industries to automate repetitive, physical work without requiring a new robot or training pipeline for every task. Our robots are already deployed in hotels, with customers now expanding the platform into biotech, hospitals, and data centers, including a wet lab at Stanford. Our mission is to do for robotics what Apple did for personal computing: take technology that was once expensive, specialized, and inaccessible and make it powerful and usable at massive scale. We’re building toward a world with billions of intelligent robots, and OS3 is the platform that makes that possible.
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1.0: a mobile, bimanual robot starting under $10K for businesses & $15k for developers.
Robotics has a paywall. We’re opening it. Meet H.A.L.E. 1.0: a mobile, bimanual robot starting under $10K for businesses & $15k for developers. Powered by a model trained on 150K hours of real-world video. Preorders are live. $99.
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YC startup cofounder introduction
I am Chris, based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a cofounder at a YC startup; I am always open to meeting more people in tech.
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Productivity hack
One of the greatest productivity hacks out there.
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Every robotics company: Better theatrical videos than Nolan’s Odyssey Us: Launch in-front of 100s of people at Launch Live YC ps the model finished training 2 hours before the demo, more coming this week:)
Every robotics company: Better theatrical videos than Nolan’s Odyssey Us: Launch in-front of 100s of people at Launch Live YC ps the model finished training 2 hours before the demo, more coming this week:)
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One month ago, we demonstrated our OS3 Robot publicly for the first time: live, in front of hundreds at YC Launch Live.
One month ago, we demonstrated our OS3 Robot publicly for the first time: live, in front of hundreds at YC Launch Live. A new environment. No teleoperation. No event-specific retraining. Since then, we’ve reached multiple signed deployments. Turns out, 'launching is all you
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Choosing Hard Problems in Life I keep choosing hard things.
Choosing Hard Problems in Life I keep choosing hard things. I am a serial marathon runner. I got into running during COVID, when the gyms were closed, and what started small grew into bigger and bigger challenges. Three miles became five. Five became 10. Before I knew it, I
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YC alumni helping applicants
Before we got into YC, alumni we knew eagerly gave mock interviews, feedback, and advice; the cycle of help begins before acceptance.
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Personal health software project
I made my own MyFitnessPal as a day-off project that maps DEXA scans, Whoop scores, and food pictures.