Hi everyone, I’m Dave Santos of Texas, a humanoid robotics hacker since the 1980s, now back in the field, after 20yrs waiting for AI to mature.
Poppy is a historic pioneering effort in open Humanoid Robotics, now in its tenth year. So much is happening now worldwide, as AI has become powerfully effective. A dozen or so major Humanoid Robot lineages are now in intensive R&D, but Poppy was one of the first.
This Forum could pivot to be the catch-all Community Space for all serious developers, with Poppy as a legacy Reference Model to continue to build on, and countless new possibilities for variant designs. Is there enough interest here in this sort of broad evolution of Poppy heritage?
If so, a dozen or so talents I am currently collaborating with might join, and there is a huge amount of new work to share, not yet public.
Cheers!