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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by Marha01 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:27PM (#50357706)
The big benefit of humanoids is that they can be trained from captured human actions (egocentric datasets made by humans).
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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by komodo99 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:29PM (#50357736)
> captured human actions

Or just some dude on remote. (Get in the robot, Shinji!)

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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by jephs on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:35PM (#50357806)
Do we really have to capture the humans? Legal says that introduces a whole slew of issues.
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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by numpad0 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:52AM (#50364339)
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