Plenty of humanoid projects stay behind closed doors, with polished demos and no way to peek inside. This one goes the other way: Asimov 1 is an open-source biped, and at day 374 it is balancing, walking forward, and even dancing. That openness puts it ahead of most efforts at this scale, in my view.
The design stands out as well. Where many humanoids go for stark black and white shells, this one wears a vibrant orange torso and head, paired with black multi-jointed legs and arms, and a white stylized M on the chest plate. The walking takes place inside a perimeter framed by an aluminum extrusion safety rig, and a person operates an open black laptop while the robot moves.
The technical core here is the newly deployed policy, which is zero-shot, and the point of putting it on the robot is to find out how easy sim2real turns out to be. That question is still open, and it feels like the real test for the build. The maker reports really good progress, but how cleanly simulation carries over to these legs is exactly what remains to be measured.
Seeing a biped hold its balance and step toward the camera under a zero-shot policy is a strong sign for the project. If the sim2real answer comes back friendly, an open-source humanoid that others can actually build starts looking a lot more realistic.