M1
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M1

The M1 is a Humanoid humanoid robot developed by JoyIn (Zeroth Robotics). It features 50 cm tall, 2.8 kg, 12 degrees of freedom. The M1 is unknown.

Primary use case: First humanoid RL robot: desktop-sized biped for training and deploying walking, balancing and locomotion policies that transfer to human-scale humanoid robots.

Height

50 cm

Weight

2.8 kg

DOF

12

Specifications

Physical

Height

50 cm

Weight

2.8 kg

Degrees of Freedom

12

Locomotion

hybrid

Max Speed

3.96 km/h

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