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@Tim_Qian @LeRobotHF @sigrobotics @RemiCadene Fabulous! Love the body made of bamboo 😁

Introducing Bambot, an open source, low cost (~$300) humanoid robot. Inspired by @LeRobotHF , so-100 arm and lekiwi

@yanovskyd Thanks Dima! Always great to see another one brought to life :-) Huge thanks for the update to the instructions!

1/ I've created a detailed beginner-friendly guide on how to assemble a low-cost dextrous robotic hand for ~$450 using parts available entirely on Amazon. The hand utilizes a tendon-drive design with 17 DoF and can be easily teleoperated via webcam.

@DanGrover Where is the hackathon please?

I feel like the SO-100 arm is the Altair of this generation/moment. Level of growth and interest is crazy. They already got the new NVIDIA model running on it! Going to a hackathon this weekend in Mountain View that uses them.

@nikillinit @DanGrover Been folding t-shirts for months :-) Awesome work coming out of Hugging Face. x.com/RemiCadene/sta…

@DanGrover What are some cool demos/uses of it so far?This sounds awesome

@DanGrover Great to hear it's being used so enthusiastically! SO = Standard Open - my aim was to lower the cost barrier and create a stable entry point with tremendous knowledge growth. Thanks to the marvellous software of Hugging Face and now Nvidia it seems this is now happening!

HOT 🔥 fastest, most precise, and most capable hand control setup ever... Less than $450 and fully open-source 🤯 by @huggingface, @therobotstudio, @NepYope This tendon-driven technology will disrupt robotics! Retweet to accelerate its democratization 🚀 A thread 🧵

@paulctan @bsilone Exactly 😁

@bsilone You mean like Anakin building C3P0.

Humanoid robots, like AI, will never be controlled by some group of ultra wealthy people or corporations (Elysium style). Why? Because countless people are working on solutions, with a wide range of features and prices, including fully open source. Unlike cars, which have a lot of regulation to be on public roads, robots will be in homes and can’t easily be regulated (at least in America). They are also larger enough to build and work on, unlike a phone or tablet. Robots will be more like 3D printers, where there is a massive range of open source instructions, DIY kits, cheap models, mid range, high end, commercial, industrial, etc. So whether you want the $30,000 Optimus when it comes out, or want to DIY an open source model for $5,000, or anything in between, everyone will have a humanoid robot working for them in the near future.

@DrJimFan Yes Jim, we can deliver. 19 powered dof, V1 is open source and needs around $300USD BOM, plus 3d printer. V2 available for trials and orders. Designed with input from Karl and Ankur. Side-by-side view of the V1.0 and the V2.0 Dexhand (white fingertips) youtu.be/sbmcE9SALO0

We need this ASAP. Fewer fancy demos, more shipping. Contact us if you can deliver. Solving robotics is a collective effort that needs the whole ecosystem to join.

@yukez Two versions of the DexHand are shown in this video, both have 19 powered dof, four fingers and an opposable thumb. The V1 on the right is open source and can be made DIY with about $300USD of components. The V2 spinning the balls is available for trials: youtu.be/sbmcE9SALO0?si…

Dexterous hands have been the Achilles' Heel of humanoid robots. A pair of reliable, sturdy, and low-cost hands would make robot learning 10-100x easier. The hands' morphologies and mechanics are a big part of the algorithm for reaching human-level dexterity. Give me a hand!

@xf1280 @RemiCadene @HaixuanT This is the build guide for the alpha test you can see in the video. Please let me know if anything is missing from the instructions :-) youtu.be/QkIgxTCq3MY

@RemiCadene @therobotstudio @HaixuanT Could you share the design for the bigger robot arm? Thanks!

Experimenting with bigger open-source robot arm from @therobotstudio. The motors brand is different, but Enzo and @HaixuanT just made it work in minutes 😁

@ianpritchard @mattfreed Great stuff! What are your thoughts on how to best go about simulation?

Leg assembled. This weekend, I will switch from a linkage to a wide belt to drive the knee from an actuator located in the hip. Thanks to @mattfreed for the idea of using belt drives for the legs. It'll be so much easier, especially for simulation down the road.

@ianpritchard Great to see the progress!

Added the leg rotation axis (kevlar capstan). I'll finish the rest tomorrow.

@ianpritchard I like the design - where is the backdrive torque coming from? The mechanism itself should be very free it seems. How many cycles does this last at max load?

Update: Kevlar kiteline works fine 👍

@LeVanEnzo @RemiCadene @HaixuanT So glad you like it!

@RemiCadene @therobotstudio @HaixuanT It was so fun to work on this arm!

@ianpritchard @_buildspace @_nightsweekends 100Nm is impressive.

@RemiCadene @HaixuanT That's great to see being put to work already!

@lethic1 Lovely speed and smoothness, structure seems very stiff, really like the 3d printed gearboxes! Great job!

$250 robotic arm 7+6 dof

AI News: The Robots Are Coming! youtube.com/clip/Ugkxpi-z6… via @YouTube

The infrastructure of the future as seen by Nvidia

@MrsOchampaugh @Dan_Brocklebank Surely if you don’t sometimes give the squirrel some nuts, that’s one of the meanest photos I’ve ever seen 😂

@Dan_Brocklebank Stay strong 💙 life has a habit of knocking us down, especially when you have a kind heart. But there is also so much joy that life can bring. We have to have patience. Here's a picture of a squirrel that visits us everyday, always brings a smile to my face.