SO-ARM100

https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100/tree/main/Simula... I hope applies to this first gen of the product.

If you want to make something, have a look at https://huggingface.co/lerobot For hardware check: https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 There will be a world wide hackathon in two weeks time, no better way to get started and get to know some people: https://huggingface.co/LeRobot-worldwide-hackathon

They use ALOHA 2 as the platform (includes arms, frame, cameras, etc.), which is an open-source design: https://aloha-2.github.io However, when I looked at the BOM I was surprised that the actual arm they use is an incredibly expensive off-the-self arm https://www.trossenrobotics.com/viperx-300 For a much cheaper option take a look at https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot (this is an AI training library/framework) which uses the SO-100 arm https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 (one arm is $123). See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n32OmyoQkfs There's also the Parol6 arm, which is more performant than the SO-100, but more expensive: https://source-robotics.com

(Oops saw other comment linked, but I’ll leave this comment in case summary is helpful) Check out the SO100 arm, being supported by Huggingface and others. Only 4 axis, but cheap AF (<$250/arm) and using ML to make it more capable than 4 axis would seem. Also using identical arms for mirror teleportation/training. https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100

The one in the video is the SO-100: https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 There are now too many to mention and you can but some off Amazon for under $150 (I’m used to Staublis and Fanucs at work so I don’t know which cheap ones are best). None of them are easily programmable. They’re easy to control but making them do the physical action you want is a lot harder - most of the time it’s literally a bunch of instructions like “turn motor 1 23 degrees clockwise” that’s carefully tested to be repeatable. That’s been a problem in industrial automation since they first came out. That’s why transformers are interesting in robotics, there’s been quite a bit of research (much of it popping up on the HN front page) about using transformers model to control the robot. Hopefully there will be a big breakthrough here in the next few years and r

The SO100 arm[1] and LeRobot[2] community are great too if you're getting into robotics from the software side of things. Demonstration of the arm: https://x.com/ChrisMGreer/status/1867278261631561996 [1]https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 [2]https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot