Who is actually building this?
This would be scary if you were trying to compete with it. We are not. Instead of fighting the technology, we want to learn it and build with it. Here are the teams whose work points toward a real seed-to-supper pipeline.
- FarmBot Available today
Open-source CNC farming robot for raised beds. A nonprofit, nearly a decade old. You can order one now, and we help you integrate it.
Visit → - Figure Humanoid
General-purpose humanoid robots. Their Helix model lets two robots teach each other tasks from natural-language instruction.
Visit → - Physical Intelligence (π) Foundation models
Building general-purpose robot foundation models (π0) meant to control many different robots across many tasks.
Visit → - Trossen Robotics / ALOHA Bimanual manipulation
Low-cost open bimanual teleoperation hardware behind much of the ALOHA research line. The readable rig for harvest-adjacent learning.
Visit → - 1X Technologies Humanoid
Home humanoid robots (NEO) designed for everyday domestic tasks and safe operation around people.
Visit → - Tesla Optimus Humanoid
A mass-manufacturing approach to a general-purpose humanoid, leaning on Tesla’s vision and autonomy stack.
Visit → - Agility Robotics Logistics
Digit, a bipedal robot already working in warehouse and logistics pilots: a near-term look at robots doing real labor.
Visit → - Boston Dynamics Mobility & manipulation
Atlas (now electric) and Spot. Long the benchmark for dynamic mobility; increasingly aimed at manipulation and real deployments.
Visit → - Hugging Face / LeRobot Open source
Open models, datasets, and tooling for robot learning. Lowers the barrier to imitation-learning workflows on accessible hardware.
Visit → - Google DeepMind Robotics Research
ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart: pushing dexterous, contact-rich manipulation, exactly where harvest and kitchen tasks get hard.
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Where it all started
Most of this traces back to one 2017 paper. The transformer architecture it introduced is the baseline for the models now driving these robots.
Read "Attention Is All You Need" (2017)Informational only. Johnny Autoseed is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any company listed here. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.