Robots don’t become useful when they walk or run.

They become useful when they understand.

That’s exactly what @openmind_agi recently unlocked and honestly, watching this shift unfold feels surreal in real time.

By integrating NVIDIA Jetson Thor into the OpenMind BrainPack, OM1 robots suddenly gain the compute needed for real-time AI reasoning, perception, and safe navigation, everything autonomy has been missing in consumer-grade robots. I always felt like robotics had potential, but it was missing something critical. Thor finally fills that gap.

Thor lets these robots run heavy AI models locally.
OpenMind gives them the intelligence to use those models in the real world.

Urban navigation
Obstacle prediction
Privacy-safe vision
Adaptive movement
Continuous learning

Together, they form the difference between a robot that performs a choreographed routine and a robot that can actually function in an unpredictable city street, a crowded office, or your living room. I’m watching the industry shift from “pre-programmed behavior” to genuine real-world autonomy and it’s happening faster than anyone expected.

This is how robots go from “cool tech demo” to “real assistant that can move through a city or a home without getting confused.” And honestly, seeing OpenMind push this frontier makes it clear: we’re stepping into a new era of embodied AI.

The BrainPack was already impressive. Thor just turned it into a milestone for the entire robotics industry.