Origin has gone autonomous. Collect demonstrations. Train a policy. Put it to work in Station. A small task, and a big milestone for HIRO Industries. Full autonomous demo shown at real speed.

Good robotics starts with good sensing. Head and wrist RGB. Depth. Joint telemetry. Recorded motion, visualized together. We’re building Origin for real-world work, with the tools developers and researchers need to take it further. What would you build?

42 days ago, I left my job as a founding engineer at a @ycombinator robotics startup and moved back to Oregon to start my own robotics company. Here's how we got here. I started HIRO (Humanoid and Intelligent Robotics Organization) as a club at Oregon State because I believed advanced robotics should be accessible to everyone, not just a handful of well-funded labs. I had preordered a robot from @kscalelabs, but when the company shut down, I reached out to its founder, @benjamin_bolte, about buying one of their prototypes. Instead, Ben talked me out of driving down to Palo Alto and encouraged me to build our own robot for the club. That conversation stuck with me. Earlier this year, I graduated from Oregon State and moved to San Francisco to work at Nori Robotics. Over the summer, we went through three iterations of robots and multiple public launches. I learned a ton about what it actually takes to build and ship hardware. On September 1st, I came back to Oregon and went all-in on @hiroindustries with my cofounder, @ethan_marreel. In just six weeks, we've brought Origin, our first two-armed robot, to life. From designing and assembling hardware to getting it moving and sharing our first demos. There's still an enormous amount to figure out. The hardware isn't perfect, the software is a work in progress, and Ethan's teleoperated beaver throw could use some practice. Six weeks ago, Origin was still an idea. Today, I get to watch it move in my apartment.

Origin is coming to life!