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Launch HN: Innate (YC F24) – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents

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Hey HN! We’re Axel & Vig, the founders of Innate ( We build general-purpose home robots that you can teach new tasks to simply by demonstrating them. Our system combines a robotic platform (we call the first one Maurice) with an AI agent that understands the environment, plans actions, and executes them using skills you've taught it or programmed within our SDK. If you’ve been building AI agents powered by LLMs before, and in particular Claude Computer use, this is how we intend the experience of building on it to be, but acting on the real world! You can see Maurice serving a glass here ( Here is another example ( in which it was given a digital ability (through the SDK) to send a notification to your phone, to use when it sees someone in the house. In both these cases, the only work you have to do is spend 30mn per physical skill to collect data to train the arm, and a couple minutes to write a system prompt. You can read more about how it works, about the paradigm we’re creating and find our Discord in our documentation ( We’ll be open-sourcing parts of the system there soon. We want to lower the barrier to entry to robotics. Programming robots is usually complicated, time-consuming, and limited to experts even with AI helping you write code. We think it should be easier. We’re coming from an AI for robotics and HCI background as researchers at Stanford, and we’ve worked on multiple hardware + agentic AI projects this past year, but this one was clearly the most surprising one. The first time we put GPT-4 in a body - after a couple tweaks - we were surprised at how well it worked. The robot started moving around, figuring out when to use a tiny gripper, and we had only written 40 lines of python on a tiny RC car with an arm. We decided to combine that with recent advancements in robot imitation learning such as ALOHA to make the arm quickly teac

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