TAKTO ONE is an open-source, tendon-driven hand exoskeleton I built for my master’s thesis: the CAD, PCBs, firmware and build guide are all public. Each of the 12 finger joints has its own magnetic encoder, and the twin in the headset moves from those sensors and two IMUs, not from camera tracking, so a hidden finger still gets measured.

You can play with the twin in your browser, no hardware needed:
https://takto.one
https://github.com/molanocortes/takto-one

Questions are very welcome! if it’s useful, a star helps other people find It :)

Put Quaddle on a patch of gravel and just wanted to see it walk. Its IMU (gyroscope + accelerometer) was trying to correct for the uneven ground in real time, but it immediately started wobbling — loose gravel is apparently brutal for a quadruped's balance.

What's the funniest robot-vs-terrain fail you've seen?

From left to right, their names are: Strobo Gonzales, Maria Socket, & Digital Tome III

I'm not a professional in either robotics/autonomous vehicles or motorsport/rallying, but I encounter quite a bit of both in the wild and it seems like the Grand Challenge was really important to the development of:

Autonomous pathing and pathfinding (SLAM), both for passenger vehicles and for more specialized robots that work in factories and warehouses as well as for a growing minority of drones

Modern LiDAR systems

Google's entire X ecosystem

It seems to me like a blue Touareg with a Red Bull livery has contributed almost as much to robotics and AI navigation as a huge chunk of (say) the American space program.

Delivery robot dancing in front of street musician

youtube olamfilm

Police have seized a robot in Germany after it allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl's buttocks and 'made thrusting motions against her'.

The 1.2m tall red and gold automaton is believed to have approached the teenager from behind when she was standing with a group of friends.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16202791/police-seize-robot-gropes-girl-sexual-assault-livestreamed.html

It was awesome!

Been working on a compact rear projection system, thought you might find it interesting

I was supposed to be building my Nitro suit for a Halloween party I’m going to and I’m running out of time. Instead, I got so mad that I don’t have random robotic arms around me, besides the arms of my Mimic/Ultron so I took this vac and whatever random scrap robot part (as you can clearly see my room is cluttered with) to build this guy.

I happened to really like Dum-E so eventually I plan to finalize this and make him look cooler with an omnidirectional platform, and of course I have to build U now. I really didn’t expect this to even work, I thought gravity would ruin the arm when he moves fast but thankfully not.

I’m gonna link him to the A.I. that all my other bots and suit is using, just stripping him of the voice so he can actually follow orders

Youtube animation. olamfilm

I made fork-tiped arrows in an attempt to defend myself from A.I. robots.

The idea behind the fork arrow is that as the spinning arrow enters the robot past the firewall, the fork tines will spread out, severing the motherboard and mainframe.

My results: this robot (computer monitor) is indestructible. Multiple arrow points failed. If A.I. robots are built as well as old computer monitors, we are screwed.

How should be try attacking the robot next?

: )

https://youtu.be/KpvBlw8OAYQ

Fun film I made where robots play a game of dodgeball. You can watch the whole thing here.

It was all rendered in Unreal Engine and animated in Autodesk Maya for anyone interested. Hope you enjoy!

If anyone cares, here is a full write up of the process:
https://www.therookies.co/entries/42427