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Asimov opens DIY humanoid kit preorders at $15K

Menlo Research’s open-source Asimov project is moving from build-in-public updates to a paid “Here Be Dragons” DIY kit, with a $499 refundable deposit and a target $15,000 total price. The kit is pitched to advanced builders and includes full assembly materials plus manuals and videos, with shipments planned in the coming months.

// ANALYSIS

This is a meaningful shift from open-source showcase to early commercialization, and it could become a practical baseline for embodied AI experimentation outside big labs.

–The team frames it as near-BOM pricing, signaling ecosystem seeding over short-term margin.
–Full-body DIY packaging plus docs lowers entry barriers compared with opaque proprietary humanoid platforms.
–Positioning the robot as hackable and open-source is likely to attract researchers and serious hobbyist developers.
–The “beta-before-beta” framing also implies real execution risk on timelines, support load, and reliability.

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asimovroboticsopen-sourceagent

DISCOVERED

38d ago

2026-03-05

PUBLISHED

38d ago

2026-03-04

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

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Anen-o-me