Innate

Innate builds MARS, a small, portable robot that its makers describe as an agentic robot you can teach like an AI agent, together with Innate OS, an open source operating system for developing robot behavior. The company's stated aim is to give individuals a general purpose, programmable robot rather than a closed machine controlled by a central authority. MARS combines a moving head with stereo and RGB cameras, a 2D LiDAR, a 5+1 degree of freedom arm designed for learning, extension ports for accessories, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB computer. It can be controlled from a phone or browser, where the user sees what the robot sees and gives it instructions. Behaviors are written, tested in a browser based simulator, tried on the robot and then shared, and skills can be installed from the command line. The vendor also says a task can be taught from a single demonstration. Developers, hobbyists and researchers are the natural audience, since Innate OS and the MARS design are both published on GitHub and the software can be changed and extended. Example behaviors on the site include tidying a room, playing chess, operating a printer and acting as a security guard. Innate lists MARS for sale at $995. The simulator can be tried in the browser before buying hardware, and the operating system is open source. No subscription plans are published.