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OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm
- NegativeLatency 13d agoCrosses fingers for a general purpose laundry folding bot
- smokel 13d agoWe've come a long way from watching 50x speedups [1] to real-time [2] videos of watching robots fold clothes, student-style. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo https://youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo [2] https://www.pi.website/blog/pi0 https://www.pi.website/blog/pi0
- num42 12d agoOff-topic, but even though it was 16 years ago, the robot looks so beautiful and well-designed. It looks so aesthetic!
- eichin 12d agoIt's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Garage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Garage PR2 (according to the paper linked in the description.) It definitely had a design style - which mostly expressed "we have a lot of money to sink in to robots" rather than "anything we are doing has a market" though to be fair they had a lot of interesting spinoffs - just not from the robot itself :-)
- King-Aaron 13d agoI 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 12d agoHouse scale Faraday cages and an airlock for fiber optics. Should be sufficient until maybe 2032.
- mxmilkiib 12d agoI've got a collection of socks needing darning!
- brookst 12d agoOh great now you’re outsourcing the “where the hell did the other sock go and why are there always odd numbers coming out of the dryer” existential crises to AI. Is there no aspect of the human experience you won’t cede to machines?
- bluebarbet 12d agoTo 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 12d agoI 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.
- brookst 12d agoI genuinely don’t understand this binary thinking. You could easily turn it around: if we’re cutting down on inefficiencies, laundry folding robots will give people more time to exercise. Or, why bother going to the gym if you don’t eat healthily? Or, why bother eating healthy if you don’t go to the gym. Not trying to give you a hard time specifically, it’s just a pattern that I feel left out of. If A and B are both improvements over status quo, why does one obviate the other?
- bluebarbet 12d agoTrue, but both of you are missing my main point. >if we’re cutting down on inefficiencies, laundry folding robots will give people more time to exercise [...] going to the gym Exercising while a machine folds one's laundry is akin to running on a treadmill instead of running in the park. The technology is the inefficiency.
- showerst 12d agoHave a couple of kids and then revisit this comment =). Laundry folding is probably family's most disliked trivial chore, and becomes a non-trivial chore if you have a large family with lots of activities that generate a constant stream of dirty uniforms and gym clothes.
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- NetOpWibby 13d agoOne step closer to becoming Adam Jensen
- King-Aaron 13d agoOr Smasher, there's a few Adams we're taking steps towards
- tsumnia 12d agoYou don't say... XD
- NetOpWibby 12d agoSmasher's too bulky and his quips ("You look like a cut of fuckable meat") don't match his hardware.
- p_l 10d agoHe switches bodies at will... and is generally a psychopath so his quips are probably more to cause discomfort than anything else
- nicman23 12d agoi asked for this
- ethanwillis 12d agoA 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 12d agoI think in target-rich environments, the humanoid form is pretty easy to beat.
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- donpdonp 12d 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 12d agoOne 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 12d agoHi! do you have any references for VLAs using inverse kinematics? I'm very curious and can't find much
- moffkalast 12d agoI'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.
- altruios 12d agoRespectfully, that's the corporate-washed killer app. Intimacy between people in a long distance relationship: that's the killer app.
- jamilton 12d agoThat's a niche inside a niche. It's a step up from existing solutions, but not an enormous one.
- teamolHuang 12d agoFinally, automatic hand for single man
- subscribed 12d agoThat came out more sexist than funny.
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- MrPapz 12d agoThis would be great to take advanced healthcare like surgery to remote communities!
- PowerElectronix 12d agoI hope someone teaches it to perform a highly sophisticated secret handshake.
- officialchicken 12d agoSeriously, Are we nunchaku yet? If so, I would like a Bruce Lee edition in classic yellow.
- guestbest 12d agoReminds me of the armatron from Radio Shack
- prometheus1992 12d agoi'm not really sure if people are being sarcastic about laundry folding being the real application of this because I have never felt in my life that i want a robot folding my laundry. i actually love folding my laundry.
- AngryData 12d agoI don't like folding laundry, but that's why I just lay all my clothes out flat, which still negates the desire for a robot to do it.
- slfnflctd 12d agoIt's a huge milestone for robotic capabilities more generally. This particular problem has been discussed a ton in robotics communities. It requires a gentle-but-firm grip and extreme dexterity across a wide range of shapes, sizes, weights, densities and material types. If a somewhat affordable robot can fold some of your laundry in a reasonable amount of time, all of a sudden there are a lot more new and useful things it can do as well. It's a metric. Plus there are also people who don't like folding laundry. Like me.
- prometheus1992 12d ago>>> If a somewhat affordable robot can fold some of your laundry in a reasonable amount of time, all of a sudden there are a lot more new and useful things it can do as well. It's a metric. I see, is it like arc agi but for robots? wouldn't the companies just laundryfold-maxx their robots then?
- slfnflctd 12d agoMy current opinion is that trying to 'maxx' in this area (as has been done with other benchmarks) would actually bring enough other use cases with it as a side effect that it would be worthwhile.
- throwup238 12d agoThat would mean maximizing robotic dexterity, not just control, which means improved hardware. Roboticists would be ecstatic with a laundry-maxxed robot.
- westurner 12d ago- enactic/openarm_mujoco: https://github.com/enactic/openarm_mujoco https://github.com/enactic/openarm_mujoco - "Robots – Comprehensive catalog of 115 humanoid and quadruped robots" re: MJCF in mujoco_menagerie, awesomerobots, robot-descriptions/awesome-robot-descriptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727432 - I can think of at least one museum that already has interactive demo robot arms that are in need of repair or replacement
- phkahler 12d agoAre these stepper motors or torque/force commanded?