Hacker News Reader

The creators of Beni seem to have promised that the platform will be open (including sim2real parts of Beni).

I have ordered Beni for my family. It's sturdy and more practical for careless fun.

Their current messaging is "we're busy, no promises" on dev kit or API access -- where did you see this open promise? I'm super curious.

UPDATE: That's their kickstarter customer service. Their subreddit has founders liberally promising API/devkit access, targeted at Q1 '27

i think i heard someplace that ssh/adb is open by default, if true, that is ENOUGH for me to take over and do the rest on my own.

That would be awesome. Probably worth getting a v1 and not upgrading the firmware just to be sure

I'm an early backer and plan on jailbreaking Beni ASAP. Seems like really, really cool hardware.

With Unitree bots all but banned in the US I've been looking to pivot away from that platform anyway. Took a couple months to jailbreak the Go2 platform initially, but I'm betting this will go even faster with modern agents

Reply on news.ycombinator.com