When I understand OpenMind, I realize that robots are not lacking intelligence

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Talking past each other robots
Last month, I saw a scene in Shenzhen: in an intelligent home exhibition hall, Tesla's Optimus, Figure's humanoid robots, and Yushu's robotic dog were all on display together.

I was thinking: what if they three collaborated to complete a task, what would happen?

The answer is—completely impossible!

They are like foreigners speaking different languages, doing their own thing, no one understands the other. This is not an intelligence problem, it's a "language" problem.

OpenMind's solution opened my eyes
After reading this report from Tiger Research, I realized someone is working on a very fundamental thing.

OpenMind proposed two core components:

OM1 — a natural language-based robot runtime. Imagine, whether it's Tesla or Boston Dynamics, robots communicate in human language: "I'm in the kitchen," "Help me get a cup." VLM converts visual information into text, ASR turns speech into text, then LLM understands the context and makes decisions.

FABRIC — a blockchain network responsible for the trust layer. Each robot has an identity (ERC-7777 standard), shares location and status in real-time, multi-node verification prevents data falsification, and there are automatic settlement protocols.

This combination addresses: enabling robots from different manufacturers to trust and collaborate with each other.

The prototype of the robot economy
A demo in the report left a deep impression on me: you ask a robot "Help me buy lunch," it goes to the store, orders, pays with cryptocurrency, and then brings back the food.

Further, a household humanoid robot notices it’s out of detergent, places an order with a supermarket robot, an automatic smart contract is generated, and after delivery, automatic settlement occurs.

This is no longer just simple "execute commands," but robots becoming economic entities.

I suddenly realized: what OpenMind is doing is like how TCP/IP protocol was essential for the internet back in the day. Without a unified protocol, even the smartest robots are just isolated islands.

My observations
Now, Chinese consumers can buy a $1,000 robotic dog and a $12,000 humanoid robot. Large-scale deployment is happening.

But the issues are also clear: safety, trust, collaboration. OpenMind uses ERC-7777 to assign identities and behavioral rules to each robot, and is developing a "physical AI security layer" to prevent hallucinations and attacks.

Unitree, DEEP Robotics, UBTECH—these hardware manufacturers are already using OM1. Pantera Capital led a $20 million investment.

This makes me believe: the missing piece in the robot era is not more powerful AI, but a set of infrastructure that allows them to "speak the same language and build trust."

What OpenMind is doing may be the most critical piece of the puzzle in the robotics industry.