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nice, now any pointers on how someone can make something similar in a smaller form factor?

• regularfry 3y ago
  Expect 95% of the cost to be the actuators.
• all2 3y ago
  I'd be very tempted to try and run a gear train and cable system so that the majority of the weight was near center of mass. If you're going small enough, there are servos that pull a few oz and could easily manipulate fishing line in tubes.
• numpad0 3y ago
  Hardware is more or less half a robot dog, but the cuteness is in the software. Closest open source cute animatronics I've seen is Stack-chan based on M5Stack/ESP32, but it's still far off from Disney cute. 1: https://github.com/meganetaaan/stack-chan https://github.com/meganetaaan/stack-chan
  • pests 3y ago
    This was the comment that made me go back and watch the video. Interesting. It of course has a lot of human elements to get at that association. The antennas as ears. Having eye-likes that can close. The tilting of the head is very good looking and I must say it holds itself well.
    • numpad0 3y ago
      Boston Dynamics robots and its clones probably has more axes, if that’s what you want. Dynamixel sells servos. Sony does small batches of robots every five years or so. ABB and Kuka makes tons of robotic arms and they’re available new and used. Bellabots(just an off brand Roomba, almost literally) are everywhere. Oh, and Aldebaran Pepper are easily found being sent to recycling. Because the onboard Wi-Fi has unfortunate tendency of showing early faults, of course. Totally not because it’s not about having human features. Apparently the software used to convert CG animations into motions for this guy is part of novel development too. That’s what allows him to have these hallmark Disney movements. Are there open source or hackable alternatives to that? To what…