February 11, 2025
MenteeBot V3.0 Teaser
MenteeBot V3.0 is a fully vertically integrated humanoid robot, featuring full-stack AI and proprietary hardware. Designed to excel in various environments, this next-generation platform provides unmatched performance, reliability, and versatility. Below are some of its key advancements:
- Custom-built actuators: Delivering up to 3x more power, enhanced precision, and higher power density compared to competitors.
- Enhanced head-mounted sensors: Provide superior situational awareness.
- Enhanced torso mobility: Enables greater dexterity and agility in task execution.
- New hot-swappable battery system: Offers over 3 hours of runtime for around-the-clock functionality.
- Increased lifting and carrying capacity: Handles payloads of up to 25kg.
- Redesigned hands: Provide stronger grip, impact resistance, and precise manipulation.
- Pinch force: Up to 30N per finger.
- Walking speed: Up to 1.5 meters per second.
- Height: 175 cm.
- 360-degree view angles: Achieved with fisheye side cameras and a rear camera.
- Onboard computing: 2 x Jetson Orin AGX.
February 5, 2025Recently, Mentee Robotics Co-Founder Shai Shalev-Shwartz gave a public lecture on Mentee's Foundation Model, designed to enable humans to mentor robots through a combination of text instructions and real-time demonstrations—much like training a new employee on the job. Our approach involves training a foundation model in simulation using reinforcement learning (RL) and applying Sim2Real techniques to transfer skills to physical robots. We integrate two paradigms: "Learning from data" (language, vision, speech) and "Learning from experience" (robot control).
Mentee's Foundation Model
August 5, 2024Recently, Mentee Robotics CEO, Lior Wolf, gave a public lecture on the company's innovative AI-first approach to building the next generation of humanoid robots. Learn how Mentee is challenging conventional wisdom in the field and why they believe their method gives them a competitive edge. Key topics include:
Mentee's AI approach
- Mentee's unique sim2real technology and its applications in locomotion, dexterity, and navigation
- The importance of modular AI systems in creating truly adaptive and capable robots
- The limitations of end-to-end training and large-scale data collection for humanoid robotics
- How Mentee integrates cutting-edge developments in 3D modeling, perception, and language models
July 29, 2024Mentee Robotics is revolutionizing the field of robotics with the introduction of MenteeBot, a fully capable humanoid robot that integrates robotics, sensing, and AI to deliver human-like dexterity and perception.
Mentee Robotics applies a practical AI approach that combines multiple robust components to create a stable platform with versatile capabilities. The company builds a complete vertical solution, from hardware to AI, aiming to provide the first truly useful robot, which will be available to select customers in 2025.
In discussions with a large international retailer, the use case of pushing a shopping cart for an elderly individual was suggested. Simultaneously, Mentee Robotics was approached by a large chain of nursing homes facing challenges due to labor shortages.
In response to these use cases, the MenteeBot team quickly developed the capability for the robot to grab a shopping cart and follow a person in a wheelchair, stopping each time the person stops to put items in the cart. The robot pushes the cart with a very natural flow, making it an ideal shopping companion.
The result can be seen in the video below:Mentee Robotics is overcoming the data and sim-to-real gap by training inside the NVIDIA Isaac Lab, a simulation application framework for reinforcement learning built on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, using various assets available through the framework. Mentee Robotics also has proprietary technology for overcoming this gap, which provides natural, human-like motion and the ability to learn new actions quickly within the simulator.Mentee Robotics is a leader in locomotion and dexterity, combining both in a robotic platform that can navigate in a marker-less 3D world. All computing occurs on the robot itself, using two NVIDIA Jetson Orin system-on-modules, and the battery can run for hours. The next generation (V3), expected by the end of 2024, will include a detachable battery, enabling MenteeBots to work three shifts a day in warehouses, manufacturing factories, retail stores, and as a helping force in nursing homes.
MenteeBot is a shopping companion
Mentee Robotics applies a practical AI approach that combines multiple robust components to create a stable platform with versatile capabilities. The company builds a complete vertical solution, from hardware to AI, aiming to provide the first truly useful robot, which will be available to select customers in 2025.
In discussions with a large international retailer, the use case of pushing a shopping cart for an elderly individual was suggested. Simultaneously, Mentee Robotics was approached by a large chain of nursing homes facing challenges due to labor shortages.
In response to these use cases, the MenteeBot team quickly developed the capability for the robot to grab a shopping cart and follow a person in a wheelchair, stopping each time the person stops to put items in the cart. The robot pushes the cart with a very natural flow, making it an ideal shopping companion.
The result can be seen in the video below:
September 3, 2024Menteebot can navigate complex environments by combining a 3D model of the world with a dynamic obstacle map.
On the first day in a new location, Menteebot generates the 3D model by following a person who shows the robot around.
This demonstration also showcases turning in place to keep the person at the center of its field of view. This is important since Menteebots are mentored by their human colleagues. The video also features the LLM OS in action as well as various types of gait.
Onboarding new robot
On the first day in a new location, Menteebot generates the 3D model by following a person who shows the robot around.
This demonstration also showcases turning in place to keep the person at the center of its field of view. This is important since Menteebots are mentored by their human colleagues. The video also features the LLM OS in action as well as various types of gait.