First Step 🦾

Humandroid
Feb 1, 2025
2 min read

Updated: Jan 29

The Beginning of Robots For Humanity

It all started with a video.

In April 2024, I saw a demo of the Figure 01 robot.

The humanoid didn’t just perform a task—it explained why it was doing it. In that moment, watching it reason in real time, I realized something that completely changed my perspective:

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/71e31b_4caa39ca327e4be491508e773923e210/720p/mp4/file.mp4

Robots were already thinking.

That was the beginning of everything.

Figure became more than just an inspiration—it became a guiding vision. We quickly aligned ourselves with Figure’s mission, recognizing the immense potential of humanoid robotics and how it could transform the way humans interact with machines. This spark motivated us to start our own journey with Robots For Humanity (Next- Humandroid).

From that moment, I knew robotics had crossed a point of no return.

It was no longer just about programmed machines, but systems capable of understanding, deciding, and learning.

And a clear idea emerged:

if robots can already reason, we must guide them to work for the benefit of humanity.

By November 2024, this vision began to take shape.

I reconnected with my university friend, Santiago Braña, who is now my co-founder and CTO. We studied Telecommunications Engineering together around 20 years ago, and our conversations quickly aligned our vision and purpose. Santiago came from the world of simulation, digital twins, and 3D, and it was clear we shared the same outlook for the future of robotics:

A future where humans and robots collaborate, learn, and evolve together.

From there, things moved fast.

We started reaching out to humanoid‑robot manufacturers, held meetings with tech companies in China, learned about the latest advancements, and began developing our own implementations.

Then, on January 1,  2025, I registered as an official member of the NVIDIA  Developer Program — accessing key tools, SDKs, and resources that would propel our robotics and AI work forward.

Shortly thereafter, we applied to and were accepted into the NVIDIA Inception program, connecting us to a global ecosystem of innovation in AI and robotics.

In March 2025, at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025 keynote by Jensen Huang, the future of AI and robotics was unveiled—reinforcing our vision and empowering us to continue shaping our mission with cutting‑edge technologies.