Re:OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm
by num42 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:00AM
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Off-topic, but even though it was 16 years ago, the robot looks so beautiful and well-designed. It looks so aesthetic!
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Re:OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm
by eichin on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:14PM
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It's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Garage PR2 (according to the paper linked in the description.) It definitely had a design style - which mostly expressed "we have a lot of money to sink in to robots" rather than "anything we are doing has a market" though to be fair they had a lot of interesting spinoffs - just not from the robot itself :-)