The budget for this film was $0 and a half-eaten sandwich. Watch your back, Hollywood. No, seriously, the robot is showing emotions based on what it hears.

67 TOPS of friendship coming soon.

I just hope it stays electrically compatible with the current Orin Nano. nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-...

NVIDIA Announces Jetson Orin Nano 2 Robotics Computer to Redefine Entry-Level Edge AI

NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano™ 2, a new robotics computer set to redefine entry-level edge AI — putting frontier-class generative AI performance in the hands of millions of developers...

nvidianews.nvidia.com

This went really well! Spoke to an expert today who went over the design with me, identified compliance risks, proposed mitigations and shared first-hand experience of lab tests. Best two hours spent. The path forward is clearer now.

Nacho Mellado@uavster.bsky.social · 2w ago

Any compliance experts in the room that have experience with consumer product certification (CE, FCC...)? DM me please. I'll pay for your time.

Any compliance experts in the room that have experience with consumer product certification (CE, FCC...)? DM me please. I'll pay for your time.

Mino is ready for production with the Jetson Orin Nano and a power jack that enables it to carry a power bank. Now entering the uncertain... <dramatic music> regulatory zone.

What’s wrong with the world today? If the FCC scare wasn’t enough, NVIDIA increased prices across the Jetson family due to memory prices. The models powering Mino, the Jetson Orin Nano and Jetson Nano, are now 60% and 101% more expensive, respectively.

Mino checks all the boxes for “advanced robotic device” in the new FCC ban on foreign robots, except for its weight. As of now, even with batteries, Mino is way under 4.4 lbs, so it is NOT impacted by the ban (phew!).

Robotics researchers in the US, how does the ban impact you? Are there American humanoids that can compete with Chinese brands on price?

The Jetson Orin Nano is less tall than the Jetson Nano, so we can use the lower-profile casing, better suited to carry a power bank. The one in here gives a few hours of action with the Orin maxed out in Super mode (25W). The test trajectory works fine despite the extra weight! (video in comments)

I love this timeline. My 3rd-party encoder disks did not do well in some robot units due to chassis and optical sensor tolerances, so I made my own. Resistant to all that. More fabrication cost, at 10 disks/(hour*printer), but it abstracts away that part of the assembly line.

OG pixel artists at the British Museum

Attaboy!!

The Jetson Orin Nano fits like a glove.

Just designed this holder that lets you attach the camera flat cable extenders to the back of the robot's head. The extenders isolate the camera connectors and cables from any tension due to the head's bearing.

The story behind the name change www.ignaciomellado.es/blog/HF1-is-...

Nacho Mellado@uavster.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Folks, after seeing people having issues to recall the robot's name, I'm giving it a more human-friendly name. HF1 is now Mino. It will be sold by my brand-new company, Min Robotics.

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

moultano.wordpress.com

Yesterday, these brilliant high school students learned how to hack into a Mino robot! They care about price, so I'm optimizing memory usage to smooth the experience with the inexpensive Jetson Nano. A Jetson Orin Nano will still give you the premium experience, though.

Turns out you can fry a Jetson Orin Nano dev kit with the right (wrong?) short. Luckily, the availability issues they had a year ago seem resolved. Got a new one from Amazon in less than 24h. For more than those $250 that Jensen announced though.

Maker friends, a big PCB manufacturer reached out to sponsor my projects. Is this common? Interested in your experience with these sort of deals.

Turns out we could have been 3D-printing overhangs at 90 degrees all along with the right slicer. Links to paper and code in comments. Video credit: Janis Andersons.

Fellow makers, who spends 15+ minutes every now and then raiding the lab to find a lost screw driver? 🙋🏻‍♂️

It wasn't that long a day if you end it slashing 50% of model loading time.

One code base that builds on jetson nano and jetson orin nano and i love it. That's Mino's software stack.

My project is at that point when bugs in one robot come from other robots in the network. Turns out I did a bad job configuring DDS and it costed me 1 day of debugging. Who could have imagined that turning on the power in my lab had started a Jetson somewhere out of sight.

Folks, after seeing people having issues to recall the robot's name, I'm giving it a more human-friendly name. HF1 is now Mino. It will be sold by my brand-new company, Min Robotics.

Everyone talking about the dunning-krueger of managers turned swes with ai, and nobody talking about that of swes turned managers. No, throwing n agents at a problem does not automatically solve it n times faster. Brooks’ law still applies.

If dealing with ai slop wasn’t enough, we now have to suffer ceo slop.

We’re genetically programmed to belong to a group, which is not necessarily conducive to finding truth.