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Humanoids
Getting a Unitree H1 to unbox shoes
I owned Sereact’s humanoid demo for a funding round: from building the teleoperation and gathering the training data to a live demo on a Unitree H1, running NVIDIA GR00T on board.
- Role
- Owner of the humanoid demo
- Company
- Sereact
- Robots
- Unitree H1 and G1
- Stack
- twist2 teleoperation, imitation learning, NVIDIA GR00T
- H1and G1 humanoids, hands-on
- Livedemo for a funding round
- 6warehouse and retail use cases scoped
- TeleoperationWhole-arm, built with twist2
- DemonstrationsRecorded on the robot
- CurationSelected for training
- NVIDIA GR00TInference on board
- Live demoShoes out of the box
What I built
- Whole-arm teleoperation precise enough for manipulation, built with twist2.
- Led the collection and curation of demonstration data for imitation learning.
- Integrated NVIDIA GR00T for on-board inference.
- Delivered a live demo: opening a shoebox and taking the shoes out.
Manipulation in production
- A full depalletizing stack, built end to end: gripper integration, 6-DOF grasp generation, placement logic and pipeline execution. It runs in production across multiple customer sites.
- Integrated and deployed grippers and arms across Unitree humanoids, UR10, Yaskawa and ABB IRB 120.
Where humanoids pay off first
I scoped six warehouse and retail use cases where a humanoid earns its place, and picked the one I’d pilot first. Happy to walk through them in person.
Where I’m going
I haven’t shipped a humanoid product yet. What I bring is the rest of the path: I’ve taken three robot products to customers, I own fleet management, and I know what it takes to keep robots running on someone else’s warehouse floor. That is the part humanoids need next.