OS3

OS3 is a San Francisco robotics company, backed by Y Combinator, that builds HALE 1.0, a bimanual mobile robot with 22 degrees of freedom on actuators it designs itself. The robot is driven by a model trained on video, with the vendor citing 150,000 hours of video pretraining, more than 2,000 real world tasks and two to four hours of demonstrations to teach a new task. The first application is hospitality laundry, run by OS3 itself, with robots folding items such as towels in hotels. A second route is aimed at startup partners who want to build their own application on the same platform without developing the robot and learning stack. OS3 supplies the hardware and control stack, the base model and reinforcement learning pipeline, and training and deployment support. The partner owns the vertical, the workflow integrations and the customer relationship. Partners are currently deploying in wet labs, hospitals and data centers. This is physical hardware rather than a software tool, and the listing sits in a coding category only loosely. Published pricing covers two routes. Hospitality deployments are offered from as low as $2.50 per hour. Developer units cost $14,995 to buy or $1,800 per month to lease, each reserved with a $99 refundable preorder deposit. The vendor notes that additional terms may apply and that purchased units cannot be returned once shipped.