🚀 Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the public release of LeKiwi 🎉—an open-source, low-cost mobile manipulator developed by SIGRobotics at UIUC in collaboration with @LeRobotHF.
Check out our design and instructions on our Github (linked below)!
mujoco xml for lekiwi mostly works
need to fix joint limits, make the colors less ugly, fix some other random bugs, then open-source
will probably add a basic teleop script too
stay tuned!
LeKiwi's got a new look🤯
We redesigned our mobile manipulator from the ground up with full Dynamixel integration 🦾
Check out the build instructions on our GitHub (linked below)👀
Huge thanks to @robotisamerica for sponsoring this project!
Thanks @mehul for hosting our visit @maticrobots last weekend. We learned a lot and it was awesome seeing everything that went into the Matic robot's design. Seeing yall's journey has been really motivating for us building projects at SigRobotics.
Last weekend, 13 SIGRobotics students flew from the cornfields to San Francisco to participate in two different robotics hackathons…
And we won awards at both! Our project “Performative”, a matcha-making robot, won first place at the Seeed Studio x NVIDIA Hackathon. Our
Wrapped up our Tech Talk event with @neuralink!
Thank you so much to everyone who came and filled up the room, and a special thank you to @djseo for taking the time to come and speak to our members.
Jay and @leo_lin6 at Sigrobotics have been working on this soft tendon driven hand that will be open sourced soon.
Heres a vision based teleop prototype:
Credit goes to @orcahand for the self tensioning spool designs.