Hark hits 281K daily users, and a humanoid catches boxes
Brett Adcock says Hark pulled 281,165 daily active users and 4.3 million messages in its first 48 hours, enough traffic to knock it over. Meanwhile a Unitree G1 learned to step sideways and catch boxes thrown at it.
Shown this week
Reflex lets a Unitree G1 catch boxes people throw at it
Jiafei Duan and collaborators released Reflex, a whole-body framework for catching human-thrown boxes on a Unitree G1 using a single onboard RGB-D camera (depth plus color).
Humanoid fighting looks easy. Humanoid catching is hard.
Out in the world
Hark hit 281K daily users in 48 hours, then fell over
Brett Adcock says Hark reached 281,165 daily active users and 4.3M messages sent within 48 hours of launch, and that the service is now back online and stable. The growth caused infrastructure problems that took it down, which he said he was personally working on with the team.
Hark has exploded over the last 48 hours, and all the user growth caused some infra issues today.
Teleop and other arguments
Kat Scott: I go to the robotics events and never see a Figure robot
Kat Scott says she attends most major robotics events and has never even seen a Figure robot, and that the people she talks to in the industry think humanoids are a bubble waiting to pop. She names @REK and Unitree as the only companies with appreciable revenue.
The prevailing opinion of people I talk to in the robotics industy is that humanoids are a bubble waiting to pop.