@menloresearch.bsky.social
Menlo is an open R&D lab building the brain for robots. Website: https://menlo.ai/ Community: https://discord.gg/Exe46xPMbK
We're bringing AI researchers, builders, and founders together for lightning talks, sharing insights, challenges, and breakthroughs.
- 18 November 2025 (Tuesday)
- 7.00pm
- National Library Board, Level 7 – Launch Programme Room
luma.com/vuewg0gu
The hips use a F.A.R. layout: Flexion, Abduction, Rotation. All actuators line up on one plane. It's a clean way to explore stride, balance, and motion efficiency.
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We keep the core frame flexible so we can change the form or control setup easily. Nothing here is final, it's a testbed that evolves as we do.
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It's less about perfect structure and more about learning what works. We're tweaking joints, testing control, breaking parts, and fixing them the next day. Every version walks a bit differently.
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We're going to have a pair of humanoid robot legs running around without a body soon.
We started building them because the humanoids you can buy aren't made for experiments, so we're building something we can actually experiment with.
Dear Sim Lim Square folks, you might soon see a pair of robot legs walking around without a body. Please don't call security. They're just out for a walk.
10.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rick's got a cool new head.
03.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rick is hailing a cab.
03.10.2025 02:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rick is walking around tech stores.
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We're meeting on October 6.
Umar from Mistral will share how they're pushing LLM reasoning RL, and Magistral.
Also on stage:
- CodeBuddy on building an AI pair programmer
- feha on compliance & regulation
- Deloitte's Center for the Edge on AI and the social contract
luma.com/hn9tmock
We’re bringing AI enthusiasts, researchers, and builders together tomorrow!
Lightning talks, insights, challenges, and more:
- 16 September 2025, Tuesday
- 7pm - 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
- National Library Board, Level 7 - Launch Programme Room
- RSVP required: luma.com/67n57qih
We're hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer to help build the backbone of humanoid robotics.
menlo.bamboohr.com/careers/103
Have your own version of Perplexity Pro's Deep Research with Jan v1, the open-source alternative.
Cookbook: jan.ai/post/jan-v1...
Quick reminder to make Jan v1 ready for search:
- Turn on Experimental Features
- Add a search API in MCP Server settings
- Enable tool use for the model
We're in Rotterdam for Interspeech 2025. If you're attending, feel free to stop by and say hello!
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Singapore AI Showcase August is now LIVE!
www.youtube.com/live/bbRJ1M...
"Hey folks - I left my head at home. If you find it, please tell it I'm not mad, just disappointed."
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Singapore AI Showcase is set for 19 August, featuring 9 rapid-fire talks.
- Tue 19 Aug 2025 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM (doors 6:30)
- National Library Board, Level 7 - Launch Programme Room
- RSVP: lu.ma/tvnf60ry
See you there!
Meet Rick, the Unitree G1 we're hacking in the lab. When he's not sneaking out for K-TV, we're busy turning him into something useful.
04.08.2025 09:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Introducing Lucy: 1.7B model that Google for you
It's an agentic‑search model that can even run on your phone.
- Agentic search on tap
- Lucy calls tools (<think></think>‑aware)
Models
- Lucy 1.7B 40k: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy
- Lucy 1.7B 128K: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy-...
Menlo Research is hiring, come build cool stuff with us.
Some open roles:
- Sr Backend Engineer (Tauri)
- Sr Software Engineer
- Research Engineer (PyTorch)
- Lead Electromechanical Systems Engineer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Management Associate
menlo.bamboohr.com/careers/
Check @huggingface's homepage, Jan‑nano is trending.
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To run it locally:
- Install Jan Beta: jan.ai/docs/deskto...
- Download Jan-nano in Jan Hub
- Settings -> MCP, enable MCP and add your Serper API key for web tools
Meet Jan-nano, a 4B model that outscores DeepSeek-v3-671B using MCP.
It's built on Qwen3-4B with DAPO fine-tuning, it handles:
- real-time web search
- deep research
Model + GGUF: huggingface.co/collections...
Full technical report will be published shortly.
Singapore AI Showcase is happening tomorrow!
We're bringing researchers, builders, and founders together for an evening of fast-paced lightning talks.
📅 Tuesday, 17 June 2025
🕖 7:00 – 8:30 PM (doors 6:30)
📍 National Library Board, Level 7 — Launch Programme Room
✅ RSVP: lu.ma/wogtowwn
We're at Echelon Singapore 2025 this week. Come say hi at booth M48 if you’re around. We're showing the agent that gets things done and a humanoid robot.
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AI Meetup HCMC is tomorrow at VNG Campus.
Lightning talks + networking with people building in AI.
- District 7, HCMC
- 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Mostly in Vietnamese
- RSVP required: lu.ma/7q2ihbj6
Singapore AI Showcase is happening this Tuesday, May 27!
- National Library Board, Level 7 – Launch Programme Room
- 7:00 – 8:30 PM (doors open 6:30 PM)
- No food inside (library rules)
- RSVP required: lu.ma/oazupw94
RSVP: lu.ma/oazupw94
- Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17417
- Model: huggingface.co/Menlo/Speec...
- Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Me...
- LLM: huggingface.co/Menlo/Ichig...
- Code: github.com/menloresear...
Speechless: instruction tuning for speech, without speech.
We're releasing new models, datasets, and a method for training speech instruction models without using any audio data. No waveforms, no TTS.
Links below.
We're presenting at Interspeech 2025.
Speechless: Speech Instruction Training Without Speech for Low Resource Languages.
We're looking at how to build speech systems for languages with little or no data without needing recorded speech to begin.
www.interspeech2025.org/
