Menlo Research
@menloresearch.bsky.social
Menlo is an open R&D lab building the brain for robots.
Website: https://menlo.ai/
Community: https://discord.gg/Exe46xPMbK
Website: https://menlo.ai/
Community: https://discord.gg/Exe46xPMbK
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.
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.
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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.
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.
October 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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.
Rick's got a cool new head.
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Rick's got a cool new head.
Rick is hailing a cab.
October 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Rick is hailing a cab.
Rick is walking around tech stores.
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Rick is walking around tech stores.
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
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
Singapore AI Showcase (Oct 2025) · Luma
Join us for Singapore AI Showcase on Monday, October 6.
Bringing AI researchers, builders and founders together with lightning talks, sharing insights,…
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October 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
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
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
Singapore AI Showcase (Sep 2025) · Luma
Join us for Singapore AI Showcase on Tuesday, September 16.
Bringing AI researchers, builders and founders together with lightning talks, sharing insights,…
luma.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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
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
menlo.bamboohr.com/careers/103
Distributed Systems Engineer
About Asimov Asimov is our open‐source humanoid robotics platform, building every layer—from structural frames and electromechanical assemblies to power electronics, cabling, and embedded control hardware. We aim to democratize advanced robotics by sharing designs, firmware, and ML models with the global
menlo.bamboohr.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We're hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer to help build the backbone of humanoid robotics.
menlo.bamboohr.com/careers/103
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
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
August 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
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!
August 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
We're in Rotterdam for Interspeech 2025. If you're attending, feel free to stop by and say hello!
Singapore AI Showcase August is now LIVE!
www.youtube.com/live/bbRJ1M...
www.youtube.com/live/bbRJ1M...
Singapore AI Showcase (August)
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August 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Singapore AI Showcase August is now LIVE!
www.youtube.com/live/bbRJ1M...
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."
August 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"Hey folks - I left my head at home. If you find it, please tell it I'm not mad, just disappointed."
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!
- 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!
Singapore AI Showcase (Aug 2025) · Luma
Join us for Singapore AI Showcase on Tuesday, August 19.
Bringing AI researchers, builders and founders together with lightning talks, sharing insights,…
lu.ma
August 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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!
- 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.
August 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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.
Introducing 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 (
Models
- Lucy 1.7B 40k: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy
- Lucy 1.7B 128K: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy-...
It's an agentic‑search model that can even run on your phone.
- Agentic search on tap
- Lucy calls tools (
Models
- Lucy 1.7B 40k: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy
- Lucy 1.7B 128K: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy-...
July 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Introducing 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 (
Models
- Lucy 1.7B 40k: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy
- Lucy 1.7B 128K: huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy-...
It's an agentic‑search model that can even run on your phone.
- Agentic search on tap
- Lucy calls tools (
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/
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/
Current Openings
Take a look at the current openings at Menlo Research Pte Ltd
menlo.bamboohr.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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/
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.
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Check @huggingface's homepage, Jan‑nano is trending.
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.
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.
June 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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.
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 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
June 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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 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.
June 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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.
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
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
May 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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
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
- 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
Singapore AI Showcase (May 2025) · Luma
Join us for Singapore AI Showcase on Tuesday, May 27.
Bringing AI researchers, builders and founders together with lightning talks, sharing insights,…
lu.ma
May 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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
- 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
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 releasing new models, datasets, and a method for training speech instruction models without using any audio data. No waveforms, no TTS.
Links below.
May 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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 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/
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/
Interspeech 2025 - Home
www.interspeech2025.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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/
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/
Come say hi at COMPUTEX 2025!
Menlo is an open R&D lab building the brain for robots. We're around talking LLMs, hardware, robotics, and open source.
Daniel Ong - CEO
Hien To Minh - DevOps
Emre Can Kartal - Marketing
#COMPUTEX2025
Menlo is an open R&D lab building the brain for robots. We're around talking LLMs, hardware, robotics, and open source.
Daniel Ong - CEO
Hien To Minh - DevOps
Emre Can Kartal - Marketing
#COMPUTEX2025
May 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Come say hi at COMPUTEX 2025!
Menlo is an open R&D lab building the brain for robots. We're around talking LLMs, hardware, robotics, and open source.
Daniel Ong - CEO
Hien To Minh - DevOps
Emre Can Kartal - Marketing
#COMPUTEX2025
Menlo is an open R&D lab building the brain for robots. We're around talking LLMs, hardware, robotics, and open source.
Daniel Ong - CEO
Hien To Minh - DevOps
Emre Can Kartal - Marketing
#COMPUTEX2025