Our mission at K-Scale Labs is to make humanity into a Type 1 Kardashev scale civilization. This means building a civilization that is capable of harnessing all of the energy available on Earth and channeling it toward beneficial outcomes. We are doing this by building general-purpose humanoid robots as vehicles for embodied intelligence.

In our opinion, the best way to achieve this is by building robots that are open-source and accessible to everyone. Making real-world AI systems that work well is very difficult and requires working across a huge range of disciplines, from training and deploying machine learning models to designing and building physical hardware to collecting useful data from diverse real-world environments. In the face of such large technical and operational challenges, any additional barriers only serve to slow down progress and reduce the efficient allocation of resources towards achieving that end goal.

Put differently, as a guiding principle, we are more concerned with making sure that the goal gets achieved than ensuring that no one else achieves it before us, and we expect that our own progress will be much faster and more efficient when work is done in the open. Building in the open provides a forcing function for quality that is absent in more opaque organizations, and working on deeply technical and integrated problems makes this forcing function paramount.

More importantly, in order for embodied intelligence to achieve its full potential, we expect that it ultimately must function in a way that allows buy-in from humanity at large. In a democratic society, technological development can only take place with widespread support. In a world where robots perform large amounts of labor in our homes and businesses, if their benefits are not widely shared instead of being concentrated in a small number of hands, it will be extremely difficult to make rapid forward progress.

K-Scale was started in a Palo Alto garage with the ambitious dream of building a way for everyone to share in the benefits of embodied artificial intelligence. We are immensely grateful to those who have supported us thus far, and we intend to work diligently until this dream is achieved. We hope you will join us.

- The K-Scale Team