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building underwater robots for diver tasks | backed by @fdotinc | PhD student @TAMU

Houston | College Station
Joined October 2015
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Building a robot arm for underwater physical AI Enters the water tomorrow
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Astra went NUTS on this. 🔩 6 attempts. 3 dropped nuts. No resets, no human input. It just kept going. Fully autonomous nut threading (in sim).
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Zeroshot, so you can see Astra gradually learning how to move the arm
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tired of packing up your tools after using them? just get @dreamlabs_ai dream-1 and the @makermodsai metal arm to do it
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Had a great time showing the underwater robot arm to Dr. Rahul Subramanian from @Saronic on Thursday, and letting him take the controls! Thanks for visiting the lab.
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Working with robots has always been harder than it should be. The intelligence was hard to access. The hardware was hard to afford. Today, both change. @makermodsai Maker Arm + Metal Arm, powered by @dreamlabs_ai 's Dream-1. Give your robot a task in plain language, right from your browser. Try it: playground.makermods.ai
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Going to test this underwater
Today, Dream Labs is coming out of stealth with Dream-1, a robot foundation model that controls bimanual robots it has never seen, on tasks it was never shown, in places it has never been, from $3/hour. Dream API is live for everyone, today. 🧵
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Underwater 6+1 DoF manipulator Teleop-ed now, autonomous soon
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Metal Arm is available now Get yours at makermods.ai/metal-arm 6 DoF. 3kg Payload. Full CNC construction. Ships in 1 week. DMs open.
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“Pick up the bottle and put it in the tray.” Prompt straight to action A first look at what’s coming next for Maker Arm, Metal Arm, and MakerMods Playground. Text it. Talk to it. Teach it. More soon. 👀 makermods.ai
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Replying to @hthieblot @bnemehh
Check this out MakerMods.ai/metal-arm
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RT @IsaacSin12: Really excited to be working with @jmoon at Budbreak! Had a great week in Napa Valley taking the Metal Arms into the vineya…
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117,000 people watched us launch a robot arm you can build for under $1,000. Here’s what Maker Arm can actually do: → pick and place → sort socks → fold shirts Open source. 1.5 kg payload. QDD actuators. LeRobot-ready. We’re shipping now ↓
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The first dataset show was collected by us @makermodsai And yes, LeRobot has made robotics so accessible!
🎉 1,000 datasets have now been recorded with LeLab! Our goal: make the journey from connecting a robot → recording demonstrations → training → real-world testing as accessible as possible 🤗 Thank you to everyone building and experimenting with us ❤️ What we’ve learned + what’s next for LeLab 👇 huggingface.co/spaces/lerobo…
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Put my underwater robot arm in the hands of commercial divers at Subsea Global Solutions in Galveston. Decades underwater between them, and they loved its dexterity. Thank you Steve for the three hour tour.
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you can now buy open-source robot arms for $999: > 3.3 lb payload > 0.2mm accuracy get one from @Ryan_Resolution and @IsaacSin12.
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Check out our Maker Arm and Metal Arm!
you can now buy open-source robot arms for $999: > 3.3 lb payload > 0.2mm accuracy get one from @Ryan_Resolution and @IsaacSin12.
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got to teleoperate @gavin_phChan’s submersible robot arm — for boat cleaning
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Water test of the Waterproofed Actuator Testing for performance difference between in-air and underwater. Follow me to see the results when it's out
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We just released the URDF for Maker Arm, .3mf files for the Maker Arm coming soon! > github.com/makermods-robotic… shop > makermods.ai/maker-arm-buy?b…
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