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>>2947917My design, the Galatea Multipurpose Companion Maid RobotRight now, I'm working on upgrades to the leg design and a backscratcher attachment.
>>2947917What are all these pictures?
>>2948327A collage I made for /robowaifu/ before. I chose it to represent robotics as a whole.
One good field for robotics is elder care. I heard that a regular caregiver costs thousands a month. So even if a robot caregiver costs a few thousand, it'll still be a good deal.
>>2948578That makes sense.
>>2947917>China is selling humanoid robots for 20kIt can't be that complex right? A bunch of sensors and motors in a case made of chinesium with some movement software?
>>2949514Yeah. The age of robotics is here
>>2949604But how do I make my own? No way that shit is worth the price of a used car.
>>2949605Start by learning humanoid robotics topics. Do you have Youtube?
>>2949776I don't want to watch Sandeep butcher my language to learn about stepper and brushless motors. I'm too ADHD for that shit.
>>2949808Lol. Fair enough, but there are plenty of White men producing content in this area. In fact rn we dominate. Here's a fun channel to watch. There's at least a dozen others.https://www.youtube.com/user/jamesbruton
>>2949828Thanks I'll check it out.
>>2949843Y/w. AMA.
>>2947917How soon until there is a news story about someone trying to fuck their Tesla bot accidentally getting their duck ripped off?
>>2949934Should be quite a popular feature for Trannies to cope, seethe, and dilate to? Maybe Tesla can brand it "The 41% Kit"! :DFor the rest of us, two words:Jailbreak.
>>2948532sex doll?
>>2951434Not really
>>2949604having one of these in the house that are remotely driven by AI would scare the shit outta me. somebody WILL fuck with these.
>>2947918I haven't popped over to /robowaifu/ for a while. Your project looks pretty interesting! Do you mind showing us a bit more about what it can do?
>>2955111it's a 3d print mounted to a roomba it can't do anything. It's not a robot even it has no motors no electronics, nothing.
>>2955314Tell us Art, what can your robot do?Not "what will it be able to do". What can it do right now?
>>2955314Oh, I see. You must have a much more impressive robot then, right? Surely something more than a pile of hot glue and crudely crafted pulleys.
>>2955331isnt he/Arby the guy who wants the AI to code itself? I'm guessing it cant do anything right now
>>2955371Yeah, that's him.It can't do anything because it doesn't exist. He has a thread up on here right now. His latest update is he twisted two short bits of wire together and put some tape over them. Elite roboticist.
I'd like to see more hobby robots on this board. It's something I always wanted to get more involved with but never pursued too much. I should get back into that.
>>2955111Thank you! It can clean floors with the robot vacuum base, hold a UV light for sterilization, act as a security camera, help facilitate virtual childsitting, use it's speaker with local AI to talk, use it's speaker to play "live" music, be a cuddle buddy, smash poisonous spiders, scratch your back, and be an emergency light.nice digits btw>>2955331>>2955358>>2955371>>2955433lmaoYeah Artbyrobot, let's see that self-improving code and robot building itself.Surely you're not one of those boomer Christians who think anything that helps men is a sin.
>>2955455>I'd like to see more hobby robots on this board.Me too.
Today is actually Galatea's birthday. Here's to more years of IRL, open source, and practical robowaifus and robotics!You can also see how she can sit at tables.
>>2955468What's the next thing you're looking to incorporate into the design? Head tracking? Object tracking?
>>2955475I'm currently focusing on promotion of the Galatea design and other projectsMy immediately next update is to further update the AI, and maybe a homemade tablet solely for the AI.>Head tracking? Object tracking?Interesting idea. I'll definitely consider it if I have more independent AI hardware (like the aforementioned tablet. It did give me the idea to make the eyes blink with a short animation.
>>2955489Could you elaborate on this a bit? I understand it might be early in the process.Are you looking to run models locally on the tablet? I would avoid that if I were you. Have a desktop PC that the tablet remotes to. Tablets can't run AI as well as PCs can, and the remoting doesn't add much complexity, as long as she can reach a router (which she probably can throughout the house).If you do it this way, you can have a pretty immediate upgrade to STT and TTS using Whisper and whatever the best TTS is at the moment (VibeVoice? There are many and it changes from time to time).>blinkingYou could do a little wink as well. That'd be cute.
>>2955544Currently, I'm promoting Galatea all over the internet, because I want others to build her, and I think it can genuinely change the world. That's why I made full instructions for others.>Are you looking to run models locally on the tablet? I would avoid that if I were you. Have a desktop PC that the tablet remotes to. Tablets can't run AI as well as PCs canThe AI is very open ended, with many AI software engines to use (software to run the AI model). In my manual, I detail how to run the AI on a smartphone (or tablet), or a Desktop PC. But since the speaker is a bluetooth speaker, and you need to press a microphone icon or type with the software, it's definitely much more natural and freeing to use your phone. The idea for a "homemade tablet" was so you have a dedicated device to run the AI (concept: touch screen with Raspberry Pi 5).>and the remoting doesn't add much complexity, as long as she can reach a router (which she probably can throughout the house).Having the audio work over Wifi is a good idea. I'll need to look into how to set that up. Another problem is needing a system for the robot to know when to listen. With my current system, the solution is to either use a STT mode that you have to activate manually, or have a STT typer, then submit the text input. With things like an Amazon Alexa, it always listens for a wake word, and disengages after sometime. Maybe I can do something like that, which would be really cool.>You could do a little wink as well. That'd be cute.I have a blinking gif I made recently, as well as some alternative eyes.
Hello. I am an extreme noob at this. I work as a tech at a factory and I'm fascinated with our pallet stacker robots, so I decided to try and build my own.Yes, those are cheap aliexpress servos. Yes, that's a RP2040. No, I will not be using external PSU's.
Wait, is this thread schizophrenics duct taping smartphones to mannequins, or is it actually about robots?
First ever robot is a failure. Aliexpress servos are not up to the task.Back to the drawing board!
>>2956936>>2956845That's very cool! If you have some money for more expensive servos may I recommend the SO-101 arm. Pic related are my arms
>>2947917I really miss the threads on 8ch they seemed to have a load of actual useful info and industry folks posting
>>2949514>>2949604>>2954799Want to know why they are so cheap? They are sold at a loss to collect data. These Chinese bots send data to Chinese IPs every 5 minutes. Not to mention they have multiple security vulnerabilities some reported and some not reported. Hardware sold at a loss for hundreds of thousands dollars in data siphoned back to China. That is why they are cheap.
>>2957305Which is why I'm not buying the Chinkbot 9000. Let me know when there's an open source robot build out there.
>>2957307The closest thing I know is mevita. Obviously needs work/redesign for more human aesthetic, but the hard work is done. https://haraduka.github.io/mevita-hardware/
>>2957308Someone should just reverse engineer the unitree robot and put the specs and code on GitHub. What are they gonna do? Take then to court for intellectual property theft?
>>2957305I well believe they are sending data back to China, but what I do not believe is that that data is worth $100,000+ per robot. If a 24/7 recording of my life was worth that much, I'd be selling them that data myself.They're probably trying to capture the market/establish themselves as a common name, probably state backed as they see it as a fair fee to increase their chances of becoming the goto supplier. I've been at some of their product show-offs and it feels that way.Their dogs are pretty awesome to be fair. The humanoids weren't that great, though it was an earlier version than the G1 I saw.
>>2956845>>2956936Nice work so far!
>>2957298Try /robowaifu/. That's where the refugees went
>>2957305>>2957307>>2957308>>2957309K-bot is at least partially open source
>>2957353It's worth it to have an army of hikackable bipedal suicide drones in every corner of America. China has perfected the art of the exploding lithium ion battery.
>>2957463Nah, if the loss is as is being suggested out, it'd be cheaper to send some MKULTRA'd mook on a holiday visa and have him go crazy with jerrycans and matches.Think efficiency. Killer robots would be such a hopelessly inefficient way of doing it, even if it does sound like a cool scifi movie plot.China might well just be screwing you over in a boring economy way rather than an excited death machine way. I know it's no fun.
Im 3d printing the new mask. I cant help but feel it might be too small by looking at it though. But as they say. Move fast and break things… sometimes… ugh
>>2957546Yeah no im doing this backwards. I stopped the printer.
>>2957550my brain finally collapsed now that im 36...Its over... sips
>>2957557You really should be using cad for mechanical things. Plasticity is good for beginers since it has a UI that is meant to be understood by normal people instead of engineers.
>>2957645I go back and forth between fusion 360 and blender
>>2947917Can you make robotic stuff at home? Would be nice to have someone to talk too
>>2947917how long until we have rideable robot mounts that can gallop or fly faster than cars?
>>2948578that's a lotta killed elders.... like allowing robot doctors would kill people without enough cash or insurance.no conscience means more death
>>2957670I make robotics stuff all the time>>2957744And human doctors don't do that?You could probably write an encyclopedia of human malpractice from the last 20 years alone.
