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Hark released our computer-using agent last week, called Handoff One thing I'm still shocked by how much cheaper and faster we made the model. Input got 96% cheaper, output 92% cheaper In the future, you'll have "thousands" of computers working 24/7 for you. They'll handle the everyday things you do yourself today, but also do research and think proactively on your behalf. That's why getting serving costs down has been a critical focus I'm excited about a future where computers can use computers for us
The biggest engineering mistake I made at Figure was building a tendon-based hand Our first hand design in 2022 was a tendon hand for our F.01 robot. At a high level, the tendon approach sounds appealing, which is why I chose it: you get more space for packaging actuators since the forearm is larger, potentially higher degrees of freedom, and it's biologically inspired We built and manufactured this entire hand and tested it in early 2023. If you saw it in person, it was truly an engineering work of art. It turned out to be one of the worst engineering decisions I've made, maybe the worst in four years. Tendons are a complete local maximum, and that only becomes clear in hindsight, after exploring every other possible hand design. Figure is unique in that we've now built and tested several hand architectures, which gave us a clear sense of where to head Figure is working on our next generation hand, and it's so much better than anything you can do with tendons, it's not even funny
sourcery@sourceryy·.@adcock_brett explains why @Figure_robot pivoted away from designing their humanoid robot's hands after human hands: "This is extremely important. If we want to solve AGI and get to human intelligence in the physical world—it's all going to start with the hands." "Our first-generation hand is a tendon-driven hand." "The rationale here is that a human hand is like this: most of our motors are in our forearm and little tendons drive all the fingers." "It ended up becoming the wrong engineering choice." "We recently unveiled our high degree of freedom, next-generation hand a month ago. This hand has human-level dexterity, as many joints in the hand as a human."
I've started using Hark Handoff for scaling our recruiting efforts It takes a new recruiter about 30 days to make a hire from a cold start. This makes the problem really difficult for autonomous computers, as they need to operate over a month-long time horizon Recruiting is also uniquely hard because it requires constant real-world interaction, human feedback cycles, and there's almost no verifiable reward signal for hiring humans well Handoff is connected to all our systems and becoming our digital recruiting assistant. It posts and reads our open roles from the website, sources qualified candidates, connects with them on LinkedIn, sends outreach messages, and books interviews directly on the calendar Fun fact: Hark found Tanmay (shown here) - he now leads the Handoff efforts and previously worked at Ai2 on computer use agents
This is an actual recording, end-to-end. Hark is navigating to Target, searching, clicking, & entering secure credit card payment When we started Handoff, our computer-using agent, it was 15 second/turn. We're now at 5 second/turn & only getting faster! x.com/hark_labs/stat…
Jensen is back in the house!! Jensen and Nvidia have been phenomenal partners. I'm excited to be working closely together as we massively scale up this year
We're building toward a future where computers use computers for you We started with the internet, where ~75% of global computer use happens - and where fewer than 1 in 1,000 websites have a public API. The only way in is the human way: see the screen, target exact x and y coordinates, click, type, scroll. No API or MCP gets you there. The long-term goal is a general-purpose human emulator - one that reaches parity with a human at a computer, then surpasses it. My stretch goal is to never use a traditional computer again by end of this year And yesterday we announced that Hark Handoff, our computer use agent, just hit #1 on the Online Mind2Web benchmark - independently verified. Thank you for the support through this @punkohl
Hark is building a digital humanoid that can navigate the internet like a human x.com/chriscoveries/…
Today we're introducing Hark Handoff Handoff has been independently verified as the best internet-use model ever built, outperforming ChatGPT 5.4 & Opus 4.8 While others focus on coding, we focus on everyday life: ordering food, booking flights, shopping, & navigating the web
Claiming the top spot on the industry’s most well-known online browser-use eval, Handoff demonstrates frontier-level performance across three browser-use benchmarks
We've been heads down at Hark and tomorrow morning I get to show you something we're really proud of. See you then
Follow along here: @hark_labs
Figure had to build our own supply chain. There was no off the shelf humanoid parts We own our destiny and now have some crazy hardcore engineers because of this x.com/milkroadroboti…
Wheeled robots are an utter dead end x.com/markjeffrey/st…
F.03 can now climb a ladder, fully autonomous
“Would you ever put a humanoid in a car to drive it?”
In celebration of manufacturing our 1,000th F.03 robot, the team built me a leg lamp 😂 It’s a major award!
My favorite hardware engineering image! What makes hardware so difficult, besides high capital costs & long hardware lead times, is that there are a dozen individual engineering teams with often conflicting requirements. You fix this with great systems engineering design 🫠
Figure robots now have visitor passes! They have full access to every door on campus. Soon there will be hundreds of them walking around campus, just coming and going
Proud to share BotQ has manufactured our 1,000th humanoid robot for F.03 - congrats to the team!
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New office is officially open at Hark! We have 2 floors in a 110,00 sqft building; hiring for 47 open roles, all in San Jose, CA: - Design - Embedded Software - Product Engineering - AI Foundation Models - Hardware Engineering
Hark careers site: hark.com/careers
BotQ completed our 1,000th EVT battery pack for the F.03 humanoid robot 🦾 Manufactured in California
This is a video from our all-hands, it's a rare look behind the scenes of the early bringup of F.03 F.01, F.02, and F.03 were all designed and walking within a year of each other. The pace of progress is mind-blowing, especially considering each robot was a new architecture, with a ground-up hardware and software redesign We haven't slowed down. We're now through the final major design cycle for F.04. This will be the biggest leap we've made between robot generations since we started
Just leaving the Hark office; team is in full crank mode I have a bit of a different view on where digital AI should be headed…I can’t wait to show you more about what we’re building! x.com/sourceryy/stat…
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
I’ll try and compress 20 years of experience into 30 seconds Startups have a GREAT FILTER that kills almost everyone. It’s there to weed out the people who aren’t meant to build companies The good news is it can be beaten - even with little or no capital. Once you beat it, you can do it again. You can choose to stay at the current level or attempt to level up The level boss is always the same: if you quit, you fail I can’t stress this enough: almost every skill can be learned. Never stop improving. You can acquire new skills, hire better people, change the product, pivot the strategy, or rethink your assumptions You’ll hit the wall. Most will quit. But just keep going If something isn’t working, change course. Change your vector: reassess your hypothesis, measure the results, and keep iterating Also working hard compounds. The more quality work you can put in, the better your odds. There is no balance Almost nobody succeeds on their first attempt If you want it badly enough, you can bend the future in your direction Just start. And keep pushing
F.03 has arrived at BMW
Figure 03 humanoid robot has started performing a logistics workflow at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg You can read more about it here: figure.ai/news/f-03-at-b…
We’re on generation 7 of our hand design, they’re so hard! Our latest design is so human-like it looks like a person wearing a glove x.com/thehumanoidhub…
We are early here, I suspect this will 10x within a year or two x.com/a16z/status/20…
Walking through Figure’s campus feels like stepping into I, Robot the movie - humanoid robots everywhere x.com/rewkang/status…
Hark is building the next generation of computer-use agents Our goal is simple: use any computer as well as a human. Think of it as a digital humanoid that can navigate the entire internet We're hiring - consider joining the CUA team with Tanmay x.com/tanmay2099/sta…
We're hiring for 46 roles, including many on the Computer Use Agent team. You can check our the roles we're hiring for here: hark.com/careers
Sadly we will need to dismantle most of the F.02 robots…may do something epic x.com/spacewarriorx/…
More here: press.bmwgroup.com/global/article…
