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Open-Source Robotics: The Next Big Shift in AI? | Jan Liphardt, CEO@OpenMind

25 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Jan Liphardt, CEO of Open Mind, explains why today's humanoid robots are mostly hype. Amazon has deployed 1.1 million warehouse robots, but consumer versions like the one-meter-tall Booster can barely stand up. He warns against "magic-black-box" robots arriving at people's homes with software they can't understand or fix.

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There are some crazy people that have humanoids in their home, like in my house. The Booster is about a meter in height. It weighs 24 kilograms.
Where is this happening right now?
Amazon has deployed 1.1 million robots for warehouse operations. There's already really big companies that have decades of experience, and most obviously it's the car industry. The only reason Open Mind was started because I opened a box with a humanoid in my living room and I was super underwhelmed with what humanoid was able to do. It could like get up and shake hands, but that was it, which is incredibly dumb.
My grandma needs help, and the help cannot ask grandma to put in batteries and, you know, charge it.
I do not want to live in a future where a humanoid shows up at your front door, knocks on the door, and says, "Hey, I'm your new humanoid. I come pre-configured and my software is secret and magic." That, to my mind, would be horrifically sad. It would be very depressing because this technology would appear like complete magic.
What do you think we should be preparing for?
This old notion that you go to college, you learn a skill, and that's what you do for the rest of your life, as far as I'm concerned, is completely dead.