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Kindly Robotics Orders the Asimov Humanoid DIY Kit

We've secured an order for the Asimov open-source humanoid robot kit after meeting with Nicole and Emre Can Kartel at Menlo Research. The 1.2m, 27-DOF humanoid arrives in June with deployment targeted for early July....

Kindly Robotics Accepted into Y Combinator

We're thrilled to announce that Kindly Robotics has been accepted into Y Combinator's next batch. Here's what this means for the IDE, the open data platform, and the robotics community....

From Natural Language to Robot: How Kindly IDE Works Under the Hood

A deep dive into the AI pipeline that turns a text prompt into a complete, physics-validated robot design. Multi-model support, structured output, and iterative refinement explained....

What is URDF and Why Every Roboticist Should Care

URDF is the standard format for describing robots in ROS. Here's what it is, why it matters, and how modern tools are making it dramatically easier to work with....

Designing Your First Robot with AI: A Kindly IDE Walkthrough

Walk through designing a complete robot from scratch using natural language. From a text prompt to a physics-validated, export-ready URDF in under 10 minutes....

Introducing FoodforThought: Gamified Robot Data Labeling for Everyone

We are launching our community-powered data labeling platform with XP rewards, leaderboards, and automated pipelines pulling from world-class robotics research datasets like Bridge V2 and Open X-Embodiment....

First Community Cleanup Complete

Our first robot-assisted community cleanup was a huge success!...

Launching KindlyforUs

Introducing our 501(c)(3) charity arm dedicated to using robotics for community good....

New Robots Arrived: Unitree Stellar Explorer A2 & R1 Coming Soon

We're excited to announce the arrival of our Unitree Stellar Explorer A2 and the upcoming delivery of our R1 fleet. Plus, we're scheduling cleanups across Southern Nevada, Tahoe, and Southern California!...

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