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On 2026-08-04, @mhdempsey endorsed Pantograph's Pandroid as "the first robot of…

2026-08-04 · 16:59 UTC ·@mhdempsey ·1 min read

Brief

Pandroid is a small, fleet-ready robot platform announced by Pantograph and promoted by @mhdempsey on 2026-08-04; the team built it because existing robots weren’t affordable or reliable enough to gather their target 10 million hours of on-embodiment data. Pandroid connects over SSH to any model or coding agent and aims to enable scalable, rapid, continuous learning for embodied AI.

Why it matters

On 2026-08-04, @mhdempsey endorsed Pantograph's Pandroid as "the first robot of many," claiming future Pandroids will let embodied models learn scalably, rapidly, and continuously.

Key details

  • Pantograph (@pantographPBC) built Pandroid after failing to find an affordable, reliable robot to collect 10 million hours of on-embodiment data; Pandroid is a small, durable, fleet-ready hardware platform that connects to any model or coding agent over SSH (waitlist open).
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Pandroid is the first robot of many siblings that I want to exist in our lives in the present and future.

And the models powering many Pandroids in the future will be able to learn scalably, rapidly, and continuously.

Pantograph (@pantographPBC)

We set out to collect 10M hours of on-embodiment data as a starting point for robotics models, but couldn’t find a robot reliable enough at a price that made it possible. So, we built one.

Meet Pandroid: an accessible hardware platform for AI. Small enough to safely experiment with, durable enough to run in fleets. Connect it to any model or coding agent over SSH to let it interact with the world.

Join the waitlist:

Video

— https://nitter.net/pantographPBC/status/2084678780128510113#m