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The geek in me is drooling, but are there any practical home uses others have found for robotic arms? Hacking is always more fun with a good project
An impractical use would be to have a few of them replace monitor arms in a multi monitor setup. You could then rapidly switch between a few configurations. Also, have one to stir pasta in the kitchen.
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I have a dobot mg400 but there are quite a few others: uFactory, elephant robotics, annin, dorna, epson (vt6L and their scaras), and lynxmotion is releasing their ses-v2.
Wow, thanks for the list of resources. My problem with most robot arms are either they have small payloads, accuracy isn't very high, are too slow, or software support is terrible. Do you have any specific suggestions for 6DoF? The MG400 looks to have 4.
What payload are you looking for? Cartesian Gantry’s are your next bet if you want to handle higher loads. Eg. Epson vt6l is ~14k but I’m sure you can build a gantry system to handle higher loads for a bit less!
Dobot software sucks though, I ended up programming it in python. It’s definitely not on the same level as say a Kuka or Yaskawa. Epson seems like the best value out of all the higher end arms. Software looks good, the arms are built well, has a long history in industry, and price is decent
Does anyone have any suggestions on something that's a little higher quality, i.e. more torque and larger, like the size of a UR5 but cheaper than $30k? There's always seems to be a gap between "robot arm with dynamixels/off the shelf servos" and "research-grade arms".
I‘m not sure as far as your technical requirements go, maybe Igus.eu would fit your needs? They do have a fairly good robot automation portfolio that seems to be very price competitive as far as I can tell
Wow, I was building a Thor 3D printed arm, and this project looks way better! I think I'm going to Pivot. Side bar: these servos are a game changer.
I want the arm to wander around my house, pick up articles of loose clothing and put them into washing machine. Then pull them out and spread them on a drying hanger. How far away from that are we?
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It has been here for several millennia... it even has two legs to walk around and two rotating cameras connected to a very powerful LLM...
Nah, that model is expensive and buggy, not to mention closed source.
The geek in me is drooling, but are there any practical home uses others have found for robotic arms? Hacking is always more fun with a good project
I’m sure someone’s written an interesting paper on the ideal sorting algorithm too (i.e. large things > small things vs. ‘just pick up and place the nearest thing’.) I would personally just get it to sort them into basic sets before placing the trays back in their goddamn drawers.