Building a More Affordable Robot Dev Kit
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Lucen Robotics is building the world's first humanoid robotics dev kit: a modular, affordable, repairable platform that anyone from a first-time hobbyist to a university research lab can build on, train, and break. In this episode of the Founders Inc podcast, we sit down with both co-founders to hear how they went from a grocery-restocking robot (and a store owner who dragged them outside) to a humanoid dev kit, how they designed hardware that swaps from a biped to an arm by changing six parts, and what it's really like to teach a robot to walk with reinforcement learning. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Cold open and intro 0:26 Meet the Lucen Robotics co-founders 1:41 How two hacker-house roommates became co-founders 3:32 The grocery restocking robot they started with 4:21 "Don't let my employees hear about this": store owners' fear of robots 6:09 The pivot to a humanoid dev kit 9:05 Who it's for: beginners, software devs, and frontier research labs 10:34 Why a $50K humanoid isn't enough, and what "affordable and breakable" means 12:35 What is an actuator? (and how it differs from a servo) 15:10 Why modular: convert a biped into an arm with six parts 17:36 Building the first prototype (it worked on the first try) 19:10 Teaching a robot to walk with reinforcement learning 21:41 Closing the sim-to-real gap 25:12 Reinforcement learning explained: rewards and punishments 28:13 Using human walking video as a reference 31:14 What's next: preorders, new hardware, and the cloud training platform Subscribe for more conversations with founders building the future.
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