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Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot

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221 points ratsbane | 1 comments | 26 Apr 25 01:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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frainfreeze ◴[26 Apr 25 02:35 UTC] No.43800425[source]▶
the cost-effectiveness/performance factor benchmark is interesting, but it feels slightly misleading - I just don't see how "average peak torque of all actuated DoFs, normalized by the robot's size" is related to measuring "accessibility and customizability" of the robot.
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abdullahkhalids ◴[26 Apr 25 03:26 UTC] No.43800670[source]▶
What is interesting is that on their own metric, the Berkley Humanoid is only twice as expensive as the Berkley Humanoid Lite but has more than twice the "performance factor" (0.36 vs 0.14).

It shows they threw away too much while creating the lite version.

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1. 4ndrewl ◴[26 Apr 25 09:28 UTC] No.43802131[source]▶
Depends on the relative market size for performance factor though. If 90 percent of the market is captured by a 0.14 performance factor then that extra in price could be put towards solving another problem.