Benjamin Bolte
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Benjamin Bolte
@benjamin_bolte
Epistemic humility enjoyer
San Francisco
ben.bolte.cc/about
Joined January 2016
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    May 27, 2023
    Life update, I left Meta earlier this week to work full-time on a startup idea. Going great so far. Woke up at 4:30 to check Twitter for 6 hours while simulcasting all 2,103 Joe Rogan podcast at 10x on infinite loop. Here's how that applies to the tech industry (1/913)
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Jul 26, 2025
    About a dozen people sent me the Unitree announcement today. Makes sense, since I guess since K-Scale is the only American humanoid robot company with a product that you can actually buy. If you are American and you care about the future of robotics in this country, you should
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Apr 18, 2024
    Can't believe a some random startup (Boston Dynamics? Never heard of it) would blatantly rip off designs from long-time industry leaders like Figure
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    Brett Adcock
    Figure
    @adcock_brett
    Apr 18, 2024
    Wonโ€™t be the last time we get copied If itโ€™s not obvious yet, Figure is doing the best mechanical design in the world for robotics Let us cook
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Jun 16, 2025
    Humanoid robots ๐Ÿค– Designed in California ๐Ÿค™ Made in Texas ๐Ÿค  Free as in Freedom ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Affordable to everyone ๐Ÿ’ฒ More to come
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Jul 26, 2025
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Jul 3, 2025
    This is pretty cool. I started K-Scale because I wanted to buy a humanoid robot, so I knew I would have at least one customer. Great to see that N > 1
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    K-Scale Labs
    @kscalelabs
    Jul 3, 2025
    Wow, incredible to pass $1M in orders since launch on July 1st! We launched K-Bot to give the world an open-source humanoid robot anyone can own. Thank you to everyone who ordered! The Humanoids revolution just got started ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Jul 29, 2025
    Messing around with a humanoid robot in your backyard will soon be a common occurrence. Policies seen here were trained in Mujoco, IsaacLab, and IsaacGym. There is no "EDU" version - everything here is unlocked, and always will be. Free as in Freedom
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    May 20, 2025
    Happy to report that K-Scale has exceeded Archer's 2024 product revenue
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    Brett Adcock
    Figure
    @adcock_brett
    Jan 30, 2025
    Replying to @benjamin_bolte
    Youโ€™re an idiot
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Jan 30, 2025
    It makes more sense now why the a16z guy came by yesterday asking about my blog post... I am glad that it seems to have come up during some fundraising conversation. Also, since I guess there must be some VCs who are diligencing them right now, and presumably you guys are
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    Brett Adcock
    Figure
    @adcock_brett
    Jan 29, 2025
    Companies who want to bring AI into the physical world are quickly realizing hardware isnโ€™t a commodity Building great functioning robot hardware is incredibly difficult Its no longer a story of great AI & dumb hardware This is a story of Great Hardware + Great AI
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Jun 27, 2025
    Get ready
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    K-Scale Labs
    @kscalelabs
    Jun 27, 2025
    Your First Personal Robot Coming July 1st
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    May 30, 2024
    We started doing dinner lectures. So far it has just been interns presenting some topic I assign them, but probably we will start rotating through the whole team. They're very fun (at least for me, although I haven't been the presenter yet). We're debating streaming them.
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    Matt Freed
    @mattfreed
    May 30, 2024
    K-Scale dinners go hard
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    Mar 2, 2025
    This robot will rapidly become more capable over the next six months and it will seem to observers like we are accelerating, but in fact, most of the hard, risky work is done now. We've got software problems instead of hardware problems.
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    Aaron Xie
    @aaronxie0000
    Mar 1, 2025
    Oct 2024. Feb 2025. Years in K-Scale time ๐Ÿซถ
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    May 6, 2025
    My wife and I had a baby last week. According to my wife, he has already logged over 250 neurosurgery cases, while every time I try to get him to watch a CS224N video he falls asleep or poops his diaper. Very concerned he will choose a career in medicine. Is there any machine
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    Benjamin Bolte
    @benjamin_bolte
    May 20, 2025
    This is very much intentional. The Apple II cost $6800 in today's dollars and was notable for having a great emphasis on the developer experience, expanding from the initial hacker and early adopter core out to educators and business people. Very likely that humanoids will follow
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    Brian Roemmele
    @BrianRoemmele
    May 19, 2025
    Open Source Robot Company @kscalelabs has announced a ~$9,000 personal robot. The entire robotics open source system: hardware, software, and machine learning infrastructure, all tightly integrated and ready for your use case. I am placing an order. I will also order Optimus.
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