Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

46 pointsposted 3 days ago
by kstonekuan
(github.com)

13 Comments

pj_mukh

3 days ago

Super cool! How do you think you will want to sell these into robotics teams, I find so many core engineering teams in Robotics companies have a "we'll just build it ourself" attitude around tools like this.

Have you had luck cracking past that?

kstonekuan

3 days ago

We have had this same experience, and it's a big reason we chose to go open source and make it easy for teams to migrate their business logic onto our SDK instead of requiring them to adopt a new system. By targeting a more foundational layer, we aim to be a part of that "built it yourself" system instead of replacing it.

a_t48

3 days ago

This is a strategy I’m taking as well. Build the tooling that can be integrated into anyone’s platform, over some all in one system that inevitably won’t check all the boxes.

kstonekuan

3 days ago

Yes, especially in a field moving as fast as robotics, users need the flexibility to extend the system quickly

ZeroCool2u

3 days ago

I'd be interested in using this with something like the new HuggingFace robots. Do you have demos showing how to go from HFlow dataset to training to deploy?

kstonekuan

3 days ago

Love those robots! Unfortunately, we don't support the training and deployment side yet as we are focused only on data processing for now.

heyitsguay

3 days ago

Creating a basic ergonomic example of the full train/deploy loop, using your data engine, for a popular platform in the zeitgeist, will give you a traction boost.

You don't have to innovate on the parts outside your core competency. Have your favorite LLM ingest the Reachy docs, give it control of a robot, and put a lightweight example together. Iterate till you like the example flow and you've purged docs and output text of AI slop, then release!

kstonekuan

3 days ago

Thanks for the advice, we'll definitely consider an example like this.

dostick

3 days ago

How robitics may be “scalable”?

pelagicAustral

3 days ago

Build a software implementation, lets call it The Matrix. Feed it to unknowing organic vessels, lets say Humans. Make it so they existence is a soothing mixture of comforting (fabricated) reality and inorganic desires. Extract power from these vessels. Make more robots. Profit.

kstonekuan

3 days ago

Our users process thousands of hours of data used in robotics model training, that's when they need scalable infrastructure to handle the workloads

user

3 days ago

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