Off-topic, but even though it was 16 years ago, the robot looks so beautiful and well-designed. It looks so aesthetic!
bluebarbet 3 hours ago [-]
To me it does not seem like progress that, on a stressed and finite planet, humanity might "need" an energy- and resource-intensive machine to complete a task as physically undemanding (and even frivolous) as folding a sheet. But here we are.
embedding-shape 1 hours ago [-]
I see people taking cars for distances that would take 10-15 minutes to walk. If we're hunting to cut down on inefficiencies, there is a lot of stuff we could attack before a robot arm becomes impactful enough to care about.
King-Aaron 5 hours ago [-]
I just want my laundry folding robot to run slower than me, and not be able to do karate backflips etc in the event of some undesired scope creep happening one day.
nannal 5 hours ago [-]
House scale Faraday cages and an airlock for fiber optics. Should be sufficient until maybe 2032.
mxmilkiib 4 hours ago [-]
I've got a collection of socks needing darning!
donpdonp 4 hours ago [-]
$6,500 for OpenArm v2. Incredibly smooth movement, 4kg of load per arm. Its unclear how far the level of autonomous control has come so far. The video shows mostly tele-operated operation. I have to agree with other comments here that folding laundry is the killer app.
moffkalast 3 hours ago [-]
One would expect it to at least have calibration and inverse kinematics solved. That's still a massive pain point for the SO-ARM101 despite it being so common now, since there's no base_link to gripper calibration nor sag compensation and every center offset stacks.
Lerobot banked on having full DL control of each joint so they wouldn't have to do that properly, but now VLAs just use inverse kinematics as a crutch and predict gripper offsets, so we're back to square one.
drapado 3 hours ago [-]
Hi! do you have any references for VLAs using inverse kinematics? I'm very curious and can't find much
moffkalast 2 hours ago [-]
I'm not super up to date on new releases, the one I'm most familiar with is X-VLA which predicts gripper poses and relative movement deltas for kinematics to move to instead of joints, and trains on forward kinematic gripper poses. I think Intern and Octo have the same approach.
PowerElectronix 1 hours ago [-]
I hope someone teaches it to perform a highly sophisticated secret handshake.
teamolHuang 4 hours ago [-]
Finally, automatic hand for single man
MrPapz 2 hours ago [-]
This would be great to take advanced healthcare like surgery to remote communities!
NetOpWibby 5 hours ago [-]
One step closer to becoming Adam Jensen
King-Aaron 5 hours ago [-]
Or Smasher, there's a few Adams we're taking steps towards
nicman23 5 hours ago [-]
i asked for this
ethanwillis 4 hours ago [-]
A fully open-source humanoid arm for physical
AI research and deployment in contact-rich
environments.
When will someone release this but for deployment in target-rich environments?
hobofan 2 hours ago [-]
I think in target-rich environments, the humanoid form is pretty easy to beat.
[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo
[2] https://www.pi.website/blog/pi0
Lerobot banked on having full DL control of each joint so they wouldn't have to do that properly, but now VLAs just use inverse kinematics as a crutch and predict gripper offsets, so we're back to square one.