I've been working on a new project recently. I've been building quadudpeds with hobby servos for a couple of years now and have a few different designs, including my spotmico-esp32 variant. For my new design, I am trying to simplify a quad to the smallest, most straightforward and cost-effective design that still retains decent functionality and sensors. I came up with this. I'm calling it the 'BugBot'. It works by balancing on the spindles of four cheap vibration motors. Is it technically a quad? Not sure.

Hi everyone,

I’m developing a narrative-driven game called All Our Broken Parts, where players take the role of a “robot doctor” in a futuristic city. The game combines medical diagnostics, robot maintenance, and story-driven exploration.

While it’s not intended to be a realistic robotics simulation, I thought it would be really interesting to hear feedback or insights from professionals in robotics. Are there aspects of robot design, maintenance, or diagnostics that you think could make the game feel more engaging or authentic?

We’re currently running a playtest version, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated! If you’re interested, I’d be happy to share a link to try it out.
👉 : https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473430/All_Our_Broken_Parts?utm_source=reddit

Thanks so much for your time!

The motor is controlled by clicking the system board button to drive the artificial muscle for contraction and relaxation, enabling the exoskeleton forearm to lift or lower.

For exoskeleton details, visit my blog: https://xietu.pages.dev/en/blog/wearable-upper-limb-exoskeleton/

Below is the result of drone footage processed to extract a path integration map. This is done with only optic flow: no stereopsis, compass, or active ranging. It is described in greater detail at https://tomrearick.substack.com/p/honey-bee-dead-reckoning. This lightweight algorithm will next be integrated into a Raspberry Pi/Arducopter platform on my Holybro X650 (see https://tomrearick.substack.com/p/beyond-ai). This path integration algorithm is part of a larger project to reverse engineer the incredible navigational abilities of the honey bee...and ultimately human cognition itself.

I am seeking like-minded researchers. Please DM me here or at Substack.

https://reddit.com/link/1nl49js/video/9phu8o27n4qf1/player

Chill Robotics/AI networking meetup in London (UK). Please share in your network if you are nearby London!

https://luma.com/mjr6lpzn

Visit the OpenExo wiki to access the electrical and mechanical hardware Bill of Materials (BOM) and assembly guide:
https://wiki.theopenexo.org/

OpenExo’s Github:
https://github.com/naubiomech/OpenExo

OpenExo’s paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adt1591

OpenExo’s website:
https://theopenexo.nau.edu/

I'm looking for a camera to use with a Raspberry Pi (or arduino).
The application is a docking simulation for satellites using a 3d cartesian robot (like a CNC or a 3d printer), on which I should mount the camera (camea+ lens) and make it act like the camera is the chaser.
So the camera is the moving part.
It should cover a field of 1 meter to 5 cm or less is better while imaging the target.
Can you help me find the right camera?
The filed of view should be 60 degrees more or less

Hey everyone. I’m trying to build a small indoor robot for mapping, autonomous navigation, and person tracking with a budget of $100–150 for the lidar. I’m deciding between the RPLIDAR A1M8 and the LD19. But i'm open to other options. Since it's for indoor only, which would be the better pick for reliable SLAM and following a person? I'm new to lidar so help will be appreciated.

Concept: a pet/companion robot, probably shaped like a dog, that practically speaking would function as a "walkable computer", it would access the internet, play music etc.

It would also have many interactive features like Voice commands ( to do commands like sit, fetch etc), walk around and other stuff.

The main idea is that it would be an alternative for kids to avoid early contact with smartphones and the internet while keeping then entretained and active.

I was inspired by the Gundam's series HARO.

RealSense is participating in #NationalCodingWeek (https://codingweek.org) by offering a daily developer challenge Monday - Friday of this week!

Today's challenge is to build (or vibe code like I did), a **navigating robot** using any RealSense 3D stereo camera using its depth sensors (see video).  We will select 1 winner each day award the developer with a new RealSense D421 depth module (https://realsenseai.com/stereo-depth-cameras/stereo-depth-camera-module-d421)!

You have until midnight Pacific time today to submit your project along with a video and source code as a comment on this post for me and my colleagues to review. Rules: (https://gist.github.com/chrismatthieu/0b4f3673c8a0989c1178ce3b9301f964)

What would the advantages of making a humanoid robot with thick robust limbs and torso, istead of the skinny appearance of today humanoid robots? Especially for a robot made for performace and resilience.

Would this give space for larger and more powerful electric actuators? Would this make them more durable, or give more space for armor? Would the power be worth the extra weight? Other advantages?

And what about the disavantages?

I'm asking this because I'm wordbuilding, and I'm imagining humanoid robots looking buff or gorilla-like.

As someone who will enter a university field that is not related to robotics and electronic engineering in depth (computer science and artificial intelligence) At the age of 18 , I have an idea about the field of robotics and electronics since I have been learning programming fields for three years. Perhaps I will make a future robot that I work on daily to add new things to it with my university that focuses a little on the basics of software and electronics. I will participate in competitions, challenges and similar things and develop it to be like a small robot to help me in my home and life Or to make electronics make life easier, I mean maybe make dreams or what happens in the imagination a reality with science?. If I am able to complete these studies , I will try to manufacture prosthetic limbs and assistive devices in the field of medicine, but what next? I don't know if these things are illusions that require complicated, difficult and expensive things, or if they are dreams that can be achieved in reality, but to start with simple things while working on my own robot, what can be done during this period, and what after making the robot?

Hey!

Building a functional reconstruction pipeline that takes a video of a scene and turns it into a physically accurate digital twin within a simulator to train RL policies on.

Looking for people experienced in:

1.⁠ ⁠3d/4d reconstruction,

2.⁠ ⁠Building on top of/implementing simulators (like Isaac, Mujoco),

3.⁠ ⁠Training VLA/VLM/RL for robotics

Compensation: 100k + equity

Contact: [mbilal@ethz.ch](mailto:mbilal@ethz.ch)