Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot

86 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by base698
(toddlerbot.github.io)

18 Comments

rhaps0dy

an hour ago

Super cool work!! How much of a limitation is it to have the robot be basically 3D-printable? Though I can see it's basically required for making it buildable by others.

yoavm

5 hours ago

Super impressive work! Can't wait for these to be a little more budget friendly so that it would be viable for small hacking around the house.

acyou

9 hours ago

The cartwheel fails are pretty brutal, it never learned how to catch itself and break its own fall. Cartwheel is a remarkable demo, I initially thought it was a joke and fake until I saw the blooper reel. Now I half believe it.

numpad0

3 hours ago

Those bots never learn by themselves. It's same as how animations on beautiful LPs don't write themselves. They're all "fake" in that sense, but also "real" in the sense that they would not be just gifs or mp4s but callbacks would be firing and running on customer browsers.

imtringued

an hour ago

Figuring out the meaning of the acronym "LP"s will be for the archeologists to decipher, I suppose.

EDIT: Future archeologist here (3 minutes after posting). It stands for "Live Performance", which is an unnecessarily obscure way of saying something that isn't obvious from the context alone.

EDIT2: Or it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record

gobdovan

12 hours ago

> Toddler

> Does a perfect Cartwheel in the first clip

Damn clankers ’roid their babies.

numpad0

3 hours ago

Two DOF for waist! That's some dedication.

saivishwak

6 hours ago

This is Cool! Do we have Mujoco Sim available for doing further research using VLA.

yumraj

9 hours ago

Is there a cheaper/starter version, can still use Jetson nano but the rest of the BOM is more starter friendly :)

egamirorrim

7 hours ago

I have visions of buying/building one to feed my cats and bring packages from my porch, is this crazy ambitious?

Edit: Just seen that 'low cost' means $6k, LMAO

lucaspauker

10 minutes ago

I would love a 1k version of this (not sure if this is possible)

numpad0

3 hours ago

6k is on a bit expensive side for a toddler sized servo bots but cheaper than most Chinese robot dogs. Robots are crazy expensive.

danielbln

6 hours ago

Automated cat feeders already exist, we have a water fountain, a kibble feeder than needs monthly refill and a wet food feeder that is stocked once per day.

askl

4 hours ago

And package dropboxes also exist.

Not every problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots. (Almost no problem needs to be solved by humanoid robots actually)

hahajk

3 hours ago

> Almost bo problem...

I've heard this before but I don't think I believe it. I spend many hours every week 1. picking up clutter and putting it away 2. sorting clean clothes into drawers (I have a family of 5) and 3. shuttling dishes to/from the dishwasher.

I would pay quite a bit of money to stop doing those things. Especially #1. Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?

askl

2 hours ago

> Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?

Yeah, just hire someone to do that for you. It will probably cost far less than " quite a bit of money".

nativeit

11 hours ago

> insert “Jurassic Park” meme

tamimio

11 hours ago

Looks awesome, thanks for the share!