#therobotstudio

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So today I went ahead and extracted this metal skeleton from a male love doll I had bought some months back to use as a base form from which to sculpt the appearance of another robot. Just to clarify upfront, this was never purchased for any sexual purposes - strictly for its materials.  I bought it mainly wanting the already decent human appearance it offers in the TPE body and face that can act as a starting point for sculpting a robot. This is better than having to begin sculpting from scratch in clay and making a mold or w/e. Just a shortcut for me. I bought a decent used male love doll for a few hundred dollars which was a bargain to say the least. The shipping alone had to be close to $200+ so it was priced WAY below the cost of the raw materials if I were to try to buy 50lb of TPE rubber. I intended to melt down the massive amount of TPE rubber once done using it to assist in the sculpt of another robot and use that melted down rubber to create the skin for a robot. So those ideas were I had planned for this doll. However, now that I have decided to use the skeleton for a robot build - now I'm REALLY maximizing that little investment! So after 4-5 hours of carefully removing the skin from the frame, I have it all off. I made a few tears here and there in the doll from rough handling during the skinning process and the lack of experience at this, but it went well overall. It was a very physically demanding job to separate the skin from the frame since you had to pry at it, cut it, and peel it and the whole time it fights you wanting to snap back to its original shape. I am quite sore but glad I got it done in a single day. Attached is a photo of the skeleton I just extracted and will be modding and using for Dinah Now, having gotten the skeleton out and analyzed it carefully, I noticed it does not have the ability to shrug, so I'll have to add a hinge on both sides to enable that movement. Also, its bar where the tibia and fibia would be is not proportional in length to the bar that acts as the femur. I can see that they made the doll taller by just adding length to the tibia/fibia bar rather than proportionally adding height throughout the robot. So its proportions are off due to their laziness or oversight. In any case, I have to modify ALL the proportions some I think to match the proportions of my Eve base mesh sculpt. The neck is also quite hard to bend so I might have to add a couple hinges to it. All the nuts for every hinge on it are welded into place to prevent them backing out so I will have to grind off all these welds so I can loosen the nuts to disable posing and instead have all joints freely moving to reduce friction. I will have to add proper fingers and a palm. I will 3d print these bones for the fingers. TheRobotStudio is using Feetech SC0009 servos for the fingers. I'm planning to substitute in three N20 66rpm motors in place of each Feettech SC0009 servo. By combining three of these N20 motors, I am able to surpass the total torque of the SC0009 servo but after factoring in the size of our respective output winches, mine will be about 13% slower than his. This is fine by me because his robot hand designs are always extremely fast in finger speed and I can get by 13% slower than this. The purpose of swapping in N20 66rpm motors for the Feetech SC0009 motors is to cut costs and I just have a ton of them already and have been itching to use them. The Feetech SC0009 servo is around $11 and my N20 66rpm motors are only around $0.80 so 3 of them is $2.40. So that's $8.60 saved ever time I do this part alternative strategy. Well the savings is a bit less since I then have to supply my own motor controller H-bridge chip and potentiometer to read joint angle. So maybe only $8 saved. However, from what I gather, the Feetech SC0009 requires a serial adapter board to run it and doesn't use PWM but uses serial. I do NOT like this AT ALL in terms of my preferences and the adapter boards were $13 each and only serve 4 servos.

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Passive compliance is necessary for service robots and cobots to safely interact with people and the environment. Our latest arm design is using Series Elastic Actuators to achieve that goal. #servicerobots #cobots #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio #maxonmotors #serieselasticactuator #safety #compliance #spring #robotarm #androidrobot (à Lyon, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvRdBhLHtBc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gsinxbuu6mzc

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TheRobotStudio on YouTube is doing an open source robot called "Hope-Light" and inviting his viewers to follow along with his progress . I have decided to follow along, although I will be modifying his designs as I go to customize it more to my liking. He expressed he wants this to be a open source community to advance humanoid robotics development in the DIY space and usher in the wider adoption of humanoid robots in more homes across the world. He's excited for what this can mean for global productivity and quality of life improvements it can bring if executed well. I like this vision. My decision to follow along with his project is to pick up a extra head of steam in my own humanoid robot building projects by utilizing his experience and formal education in robotics engineering as a legit decorated world class humanoid roboticist. A world leader in the field. By following his open source project loosely, I can get a breath of fresh air by skipping past the bang my head against the wall dead-ends and regular difficult hurdles and just get results. Sort of like fast food drive thru. It will be a relief for me. And confidence booster. To see something really happen at a faster pace for a change. Now none of this is to say I'm abandoning my existing projects. They will all go on as planned without interruption. This will be a parallel journey I will share. I will certainly learn a ton and can apply what I learn to my other projects. I will have this Hope - Light robot adaptation be named Dinah. I'll use Eve's base mesh for the external appearance. The two females can look similar in build but have different faces. This robot will use to some extent TheRobotStudio's design philosophy and approach for the Hope-Light project. This means it WILL use metal geared brushed DC servos and it WILL use non-human-like bone structure, but I will still give it human-like realistic silicone skin and it will use the exterior exoskeleton shell of the Eve robot I 3d modeled already. One downside to this Hope-Light parallel implementation is that because it uses metal gearing it will be loud in its operation. So it will never be able to pass for human in public. That's okay though. My other designs are reaching for that aim and my other designs are still the intention for Adam, Eve, and Abel. So that vision remains alive. And will continue. But this noisy robot will still be a great learning experience and capable of doing useful work including helping me build my other robots, chores, manufacturing products, cooking, etc. It will probably do most of the things the Adam, Eve, and Abel robot can do but not be as strong, fast, and articulated. So it will probably not play sports well or do rock climbing or various other serious physical strenuous types of work. But the long list of things it should be able to do is still enough for it to be awesome. A great thing is that it won't be so experimental and outside the box like my previous solo approaches. This one will be designed to a small degree by a real professional so it will happen way faster and more surely than mine. Although I am finding I am changing his design so much it's not really his design at all anymore but my own. However, I still plan to retain a significant number of strategic decisions, placements, and organization following his lead. My other designs are more of a pipe dream shooting for the moon. Going more similar to this open source one designed by a real pro is more of a "sure thing". Not that I don't believe I can achieve my more ambitious designs, but just that they are admittedly a taller order and more crossing fingers about them is all. I really think building a top tier legit walking and talking full humanoid is going to legitimize my journey more in my own eyes and give me a better resume to bring MORE hope toward my own robot builds. Just seems like doing this is a no brainer. I've attached a early design progress image from TheRobotStudio who is currently designing Hope-Lite in Solidworks.

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Jetson Nano flashed and ready to be programmed ! #jetsonnanodeveloperkit #jetsonnano #nvidiajetson #nvidiaisaac #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio #ai #artificialintelligence #robots #robotics #reinforcementlearning #technology #gpu (à Lyon, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByQAkdYo1jm/?igshid=tskposo94jcn

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Pitch session at the Press Conference organised by La Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, for the selected startups who will exhibit at VivaTech 2019 in Paris. We will be there from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th of May, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Hall 1 booth J43. #TheTechRegion #VivaTech #therobotstudio #the_robot_studio #startup #pitchsession #robot #realcoolrobots #journalist #technology #robotics #servicerobotics #artificialintelligence #opensource #jetsontx2 #nvidiajetson #nvidia #maxonmotor #lyon (à Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxO5L9cn2D5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1neskjt0yd4vc

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The Robot Studio is making the front cover of the French magazine Tribune de Lyon ! The article talks about our open source robot platform for research in artificial intelligence. Find more information on our website: www.therobotstudio.com #frontcover #magazine #magazines #tribunedelyon #sido2019 #lyon #therobotstudio #the_robot_studio #startup #technologies #robot #robotics #research #opensource #opensourcehardware #artificialintelligence #ai #humanoidrobot #futureishere (à Lyon, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwwJpvLH90G/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ggxor7bk9r45

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Our holonomic mobile base for the AIR-P1 robot is made of aluminum and 3D printed parts. It has 3 omni wheels placed 120 degrees to each other. This allows complete freedom of movement in the ground plane. #holonomic #holonomicrobot #swedishwheels #robotbase #jetsontx2 #makerbeam #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio #realcoolrobots #workshop #workshops #buildingrobots #robotbuilding #3dprinting #aluminum (à Bel Air Camp) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwUTEshnmf9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hqu0itcw86ol

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The Robot Studio is exhibiting this week at SIDO in Lyon on MDP maxon motor France booth E132. Come and visit us to see our new robot research platform AIR-P1 and discuss the future of AI and robotics. Our website : www.therobotstudio.com MDP - maxon motor France : www.mdp.fr SIDO : www.sido-event.com #sido19 #sido #therobotstudio #the_robot_studio #maxonmotor #ai #artificialintelligence #lyon #research #airesearch #lyonciteinternationale #realcoolrobots #motors #motor #mdpmaxonmotorfrance #robots #robot #robotics #humanoid #technology (à Centre de Congrès de Lyon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwEWlNoHf8N/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=o29xtgdaw8qk

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We did Innorobo in Paris in 2017 on Caliban’s booth. We presented a robot made of an arm with 15 powered tendon-driven DOF and a mobile base equipped with an NVIDIA Jetson TX2. We will exhibit this week at SIDO in Lyon (France) on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th of April on MDP maxon motor booth. We will present our new AI-ready research platform ! #innorobo #innorobo2017 #maxonmotor #research #airesearch #paris #lyon #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio #realcoolrobots #artificialintelligence #technology #zedcamera #nvidiajetsontx2 #nvidiajetson #jetsontx2 #tattubattery #opencv #logitechwebcam #asusxtion #cambridgeaudio #xboxcontroller #associationcaliban #robot #robotics (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwBkzqLnRNU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b9t4yojaki6

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Exhibition with maxon motor at Cybathlon 2016 in Zürich, the first international competition for disabled people using bionic assistive technologies. #cybathlon #cybathlon2016 #exhibition #maxonmotor #technology #technologies #hightech #bionic #motor #motors #electricmotors #electrictrotinette #electricscooter #mobilebase #ethzurich #switzerland #realcoolrobots #therobotstudio #the_robot_studio #robots #robot #robotics #humanoid #engineering #android (à Zürich, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv2MmDdHEWJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i4jvecykmpdj

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Our first gesture copying demo at Hannover Messe back in 2013, on maxon motor booth. The robot sees people’s posture with the Kinect and copies them. It also tracks their face thanks to its motorised eyeball and head. It has about 36 tendon driven degrees of freedom powered by precision maxon motors ! #hannovermesse #hannovermesse2013 #maxonmotor #gesturecopying #eyeball #robot #robots #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio #realcoolrobots #computervision #kinect #microsoftkinect #microsoft #degreesoffreedom #motor #motors #dcmotors #tablet #exhibition #booth #industrialfair #industry #engineering #polymorphplastic #robotics (à Hannover Messe - Industrial Automation) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvyU2tfHKnd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14q440gn1lyxv

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BBC presenters sitting with our robot HSA for the documentary Hyper Evolution: Rise Of The Robots. Have you watched that documentary ? Leave us your comments 🤖😊! ##bbc #bbcdocumentary #bbcdocumentaries #documentary #makingof #divonne #divonnelesbains #robotics #realcoolrobots #therobotstudio #the_robot_studio #robot #robots #riseoftherobots #hyperevolution (à Divonne-les-Bains) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvv89-ino8-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e859mc1grjsd

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Our AI Research Platform 1 robot can be equipped with a semi-dexterous hand and a smartphone on a gimbal as a head. #ai #artificialintelligence #robot #robots #hand #robothand #researchplatform #gimbal #smartphone #jetsontx2 #nvidia #embedded #tripod #facetracking #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio @therobotbuilder #robotoperatingsystem #realcoolrobots #holonomicrobot (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvtr21FHwmF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w1st0bms41x5

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Simulation and 3D animation help to quickly visualize potential applications of robots. Here HSA is handling a box in a logistic scenario. #simulation #3d #3danimation #blender #blender3d #rendering #cad #solidworks #logistics #box #robotonwheels #hightech #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio #3dmodel #handling #warehouse (à Lyon, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvmCbETHHQs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15kfgwj9up58l

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Robot family 🤖 at GTC 2017. HSA and Bibot surrounded by Pepper, Starship and R1 ! #realcoolrobots #gtc2017 #gpus #therobotstudio #the_robot_studio #pepper #pepperrobot #starshiprobots #r1robot #familypictures #familypicture #nvidia #nvidiagtc #nvidiajetson #nvidiajetsontx2 #munich (à ICM International Congress Center München) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvixNRWH7G6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=az6vtgcg403l

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ROSA is part of the ROBOTS exhibition which started in the London Science Museum in early 2017, and is travelling around the world. #londonsciencemuseum #sciencemuseum #sciencemuseumlondon #robots #museum #museums #exhibition #the_robot_studio #therobotstudio #realcoolrobots #technology #humanoid #facerecognition #maxonmotor #surfacepro #microsoftsurface #robotoperatingsystem #opencv (à Science Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvgvhkcnM3Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n78dzrtk49z