Thank you for this. Also for the extensive documentation. I’m trying to teach my nephews 9 and 6 to think bigger. I regret not going into engineering but I enjoy it
If I may suggest a course of action with the walking problem... Study Biomechanics of bipedal locomotion of birds. You may notice that birds have more degrees of freedom in their hips than you have allotted in your design. By incorporating the ability to do the splits & torsion the legs. Then, apply design specs into a 3D virtual environment for trail & error to figure out an efficient gate. I think another interesting adaptation may be to add wireless charging to the belly so it can sit on a charging pad.
if you know some AI evolving software for walking, leg configuration, and balance that would be good. I think 2 legs should be used for our cars and robots, as it allows robots to move more freeform. Also the head can be replaced with a tablet/smartphone.
This looks fun. I started printing the parts today. I had to fiddle around with the parts in my slicer. Most of them loaded upside-down. Also, I had to add support to some of them. So far, so good. Can't wait for the printing to be over!
Stumbled across this beautiful creation and remembered the discontinued anki vector bot. Hope his legacy will live on and someone can implement support for this robot with a home assistant integration.
Anki was repurchased and is still going... They even have a "large" vector now, as well as a self-standing rolly bot and working on a drone-flying bot ;-) digital dream labs
Digital dream labs even has an open source AI bot software to install on devices like this, to give them native "vector" features, only customizable ..so all the motion, animation, and movement/travel, and object recognition is already in place and just needs expansion or customization. There's a bunch of gpt and self-operating versions of vector this very moment. Digital dream labs actually sued another company for replicating the Anki vector nearly to the tee about a year ago. (They violated patent law).
If you're waiting for the final version you may have to wait a while, but you're more than welcome to join the community in the meantime! bit.ly/maker-forge-community
@@DanMakesThings I should of been a little more clear in my comment, I am mainly looking to attempt your most current revision. 3rd interation I guess. The community you have had form together seems to be a great team players and a lot of chatter on the forums. I can't wait to see what people come up with due to the more modular design.
I like this project and I love how he closely resembles bd-1 from Star Wars fallen order I like to see the progress of this project and even though it doesn’t walk just yet it would be cool to see
Thanks! It definitely could do more with ML in future and it's easy to add modules to the software if you were interested in working on that yourself 🚀
Have you ever seen the movie short circuit? It could be a nice option to use tracks instead of legs...less power consumption and more stability I suppose.
Hi Dan, this looks great! I'd love to see a walking version one day but as you said it would be a hard problem to solve. Whilst working on that, I had the same idea as someone else in the comments - Why not consider putting tracks on the end of the legs, in the style of R2D2 - perhaps with a 3rd supporting leg to increase stability when moving (again R2D2 style)
It's an interesting idea and comparatively easy to add. If you're thinking about trying it out we'd love to hear how it goes: bit.ly/maker-forge-community
Have you considered the person sensor from useful sensors? Its a tiny I2C module and I use it for face tracking. Its about £11 and does all the heavy lifting! I got mine from pi hut, but digikey have them too.
I may look at creating a version with ROS 2 in the future but the goal was to make this accessible, and the barrier to entry for ROS is quite high. I'd like to do something with it eventually, as with Viam.
That's great. There is a Ubuntu blog article that may help break down some of that barrier. It talks about easily setting up dev environments using Multipass and touches on using Blueprints "ROS development on Linux, Windows and macOS Jeremie Deray on 5 May 2023"
Can you make the legs and neck as a different module, and connect a iphone/tablet onto the robot for simple telepresense? I was thinking you could put solar panels and a battery outside, and have the robots wander around in the back yard and at night they would go back to the "tree" solar panel charger to sleep. You could then get a chinese company to mass produce it.
i'm building one lobster-inspired robot as well with Jetson nano and arduino mega. But i'm still on the early prototyping phase. There's some really intricate locomotion mechanism going on, constantly losing faith lol
@@SISSYPUSS I'm stuck on battery supply. Those I need are expensive in Europe, so i ordered some from China yet each shipement takes 3 months and everytime it will get stuck at the custom....I've tried three times already
@@SISSYPUSS 💖That's VERY NICE of you to offer! I found a friend who's travelling to China soon and I asked him to help bringing back the battery pack that i ordered. I think i'll be able to get back on track in a month :)
Hi Dan, I was just ordering if this project is something a first year computer science student could tackle. I guess ultimately, my question is how beginner friendly (in Robotics) is this project. I am only asking this because of how mind blow I am with your project and I am super curious about robotics thanks to you!.
Disappointed that an English guy named Dan, living in the UK, isn’t making Japanese robots.. on a video where he doesn’t say the word Japan once? I want what you’re smoking
My god you guys, does there need to be a sarcasm font or something? This is a joke, and it was pretty funny. Companion robot has a completely different inference in Japan.
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NICE. We're posting this on the blog tomorrow!
Fascinating to watch the progress of this project. Great work!
10:04 wow I hope this Bot will be successful greetings from Turkey.
Thank you for this. Also for the extensive documentation. I’m trying to teach my nephews 9 and 6 to think bigger. I regret not going into engineering but I enjoy it
Great work! And really good to hear another North East based tinkerer :-)
This is a fantastic platform to build on.
Absolutely love this. Great work, inspiring me to get back into the workshop. Thanks for sharing
Awesome work - very cool! Thanks for sharing this update!
If I may suggest a course of action with the walking problem... Study Biomechanics of bipedal locomotion of birds. You may notice that birds have more degrees of freedom in their hips than you have allotted in your design. By incorporating the ability to do the splits & torsion the legs. Then, apply design specs into a 3D virtual environment for trail & error to figure out an efficient gate. I think another interesting adaptation may be to add wireless charging to the belly so it can sit on a charging pad.
if you know some AI evolving software for walking, leg configuration, and balance that would be good. I think 2 legs should be used for our cars and robots, as it allows robots to move more freeform. Also the head can be replaced with a tablet/smartphone.
This looks fun. I started printing the parts today. I had to fiddle around with the parts in my slicer. Most of them loaded upside-down. Also, I had to add support to some of them. So far, so good. Can't wait for the printing to be over!
Nice! If you haven't already, feel free to join the community: bit.ly/maker-forge-community
Very much love/appreciate this video, Thank You!! Watching this Enlighted what my souls been looking for.
Definitly will be doing this!!! This is badass cant wait
This is what I want lol I cannot wait to see this grow. I wanted my own metal gear mk1 from mgs4 and this is close as I’ve seen as a real one.
Awesome RUclips channel. I have exactly the same interests/ideas! So glad I found your channel!
Stumbled across this beautiful creation and remembered the discontinued anki vector bot. Hope his legacy will live on and someone can implement support for this robot with a home assistant integration.
Anki was repurchased and is still going... They even have a "large" vector now, as well as a self-standing rolly bot and working on a drone-flying bot ;-) digital dream labs
Digital dream labs even has an open source AI bot software to install on devices like this, to give them native "vector" features, only customizable ..so all the motion, animation, and movement/travel, and object recognition is already in place and just needs expansion or customization. There's a bunch of gpt and self-operating versions of vector this very moment. Digital dream labs actually sued another company for replicating the Anki vector nearly to the tee about a year ago. (They violated patent law).
I love your work and am looking to build your final version. It looks so good.
If you're waiting for the final version you may have to wait a while, but you're more than welcome to join the community in the meantime! bit.ly/maker-forge-community
@@DanMakesThings I should of been a little more clear in my comment, I am mainly looking to attempt your most current revision. 3rd interation I guess. The community you have had form together seems to be a great team players and a lot of chatter on the forums. I can't wait to see what people come up with due to the more modular design.
I like this project and I love how he closely resembles bd-1 from Star Wars fallen order I like to see the progress of this project and even though it doesn’t walk just yet it would be cool to see
I think this is so cool. I wonder if substituting the legs for rubber tracks would be a better solution for mobility?
And then you've got Wall-e!! Jokes aside, I totally agree, and I think I'm going to make that.
Super cool project! Thank you for sharing =)
this project is rad.
Sir ultimate project, it would be so cool to see it grabbing stuff. Maybe fetching water bottle from kitchen With jut voice or something greater.
Great! Can it walk? If not, are you planning to give this skill?
This is really great!!
do you break down how you set up the arduino/ rasberry pi ?
Check out the playlist and the wiki 👍
wowwww you deserve more views for sure
what was you budget?
i love your work
MG MK ll ! Hal or Harry would be proud. 😊
That's a good looking bot
hi my Dear tech. teacher Dan. Nie project!!! this companion droid will have a machine-learning integration?
Thanks! It definitely could do more with ML in future and it's easy to add modules to the software if you were interested in working on that yourself 🚀
Have you ever seen the movie short circuit? It could be a nice option to use tracks instead of legs...less power consumption and more stability I suppose.
Hello sir ,I really love your work . I want to try to build my own companion robot 🤖
Go for it! 👏
Hi Dan, this looks great!
I'd love to see a walking version one day but as you said it would be a hard problem to solve. Whilst working on that, I had the same idea as someone else in the comments - Why not consider putting tracks on the end of the legs, in the style of R2D2 - perhaps with a 3rd supporting leg to increase stability when moving (again R2D2 style)
It's an interesting idea and comparatively easy to add. If you're thinking about trying it out we'd love to hear how it goes: bit.ly/maker-forge-community
Can u make a video on how the cpu controls the servos
Take a look at the earlier videos and the wiki, hopefully that covers everything.
BD-1?!
Damn it man we want a companion baby trex.
Have you considered the person sensor from useful sensors? Its a tiny I2C module and I use it for face tracking. Its about £11 and does all the heavy lifting! I got mine from pi hut, but digikey have them too.
Yes I've been interested in trying this out. How well does it work?
I want to make one by myself, can you share the latest 3D model V3?
Everything is linked in the wiki: bit.ly/modular-biped
Hello, just wondering if you looked at using Robot OS for this?
I may look at creating a version with ROS 2 in the future but the goal was to make this accessible, and the barrier to entry for ROS is quite high. I'd like to do something with it eventually, as with Viam.
That's great. There is a Ubuntu blog article that may help break down some of that barrier. It talks about easily setting up dev environments using Multipass and touches on using Blueprints
"ROS development on Linux, Windows and macOS
Jeremie Deray
on 5 May 2023"
It's a really cool project.
Can you make the legs and neck as a different module, and connect a iphone/tablet onto the robot for simple telepresense? I was thinking you could put solar panels and a battery outside, and have the robots wander around in the back yard and at night they would go back to the "tree" solar panel charger to sleep. You could then get a chinese company to mass produce it.
Sure, it's modular so you can reconfigure as needed. You'd have a challenge with the 'wandering around the back yard' bit, but wheels might work ;)
This!
But with plush fur 😊
Ty sr
This model is great, I want to make one myself, where can I find materials to make it? Thank you so much!
Thanks! Take a look on the wiki: bit.ly/modular-biped
i'm building one lobster-inspired robot as well with Jetson nano and arduino mega. But i'm still on the early prototyping phase. There's some really intricate locomotion mechanism going on, constantly losing faith lol
How is your lobster walker going, are you still working on it?
@@SISSYPUSS I'm stuck on battery supply. Those I need are expensive in Europe, so i ordered some from China yet each shipement takes 3 months and everytime it will get stuck at the custom....I've tried three times already
@@yannhuang6996 Can you tell me the size, capacity, cell type, outer package dimensions and connector type? Let me see what I can do.
@@SISSYPUSS 💖That's VERY NICE of you to offer! I found a friend who's travelling to China soon and I asked him to help bringing back the battery pack that i ordered. I think i'll be able to get back on track in a month :)
@@yannhuang6996 Great, when you get it going send me the video link! 👍
I think that’s cool, but I’m thinking your pup & my pup should get to know each other!!
Can it walk?
Hi Dan, I was just ordering if this project is something a first year computer science student could tackle. I guess ultimately, my question is how beginner friendly (in Robotics) is this project. I am only asking this because of how mind blow I am with your project and I am super curious about robotics thanks to you!.
Yes absolutely! Join the community and we'll help with any questions. bit.ly/maker-forge-community
I like it, you need a hip to balance.
Another use case: pass the butter 😂
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Hi sir
The idea is amazing
I am interested in building this robot
Would love a step by step guide please
Thanks! Take a look at the wiki (and join the community) github.com/dmt-labs/modular-biped/wiki
Is there any way I can contact you sir
Email maybe
I have a similar project which I need help in
Hiw does one learn todo all this
One has traded one's sanity in exchange.
Wish to build a robot for washing up dishes for my home❤
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god i wish i could afford to do that he is great
If you have a 3d printer it's not as expensive as you might think. Most of the cost is in the head, and none of that is really essential. 🤑
@@DanMakesThings not got a 3d printer 😭 i am old blind and would love a little robot to talk to
BD-1 !!
BD-1
👀👀
You're kidding me it doesn't walk? Been doing it for years? Saved that for the end didn't you.
so isn't this just B-D1 from jedi fallen order, don't get me wrong I still love this but it does look similar.
ps. I also really really want one.
background music is very irritating.. it should have reduced to suit your explanation.
I am very disappointed, I was thinking of a more Japanese style "companian" robot......
Be the change you want to see in the world 😉
Disappointed that an English guy named Dan, living in the UK, isn’t making Japanese robots.. on a video where he doesn’t say the word Japan once?
I want what you’re smoking
My god you guys, does there need to be a sarcasm font or something? This is a joke, and it was pretty funny. Companion robot has a completely different inference in Japan.
Ok weeb