  Robot design has traditionally been costly and labor-intensive. Despite
advancements in automated processes, it remains challenging to navigate a vast
design space while producing physically manufacturable robots. We introduce
Text2Robot, a framework that converts user text specifications and performance
preferences into physical quadrupedal robots. Within minutes, Text2Robot can
use text-to-3D models to provide strong initializations of diverse
morphologies. Within a day, our geometric processing algorithms and
body-control co-optimization produce a walking robot by explicitly considering
real-world electronics and manufacturability. Text2Robot enables rapid
prototyping and opens new opportunities for robot design with generative
models.
