This is very good work.

Those guys are very good, well funded, and have access to good CNC machining capabilities. They probably also know people who do automated assembly machinery. This was apparently about two years of work for a small team.

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SpicyUme 2 days ago | parent [-]

I like the part: "You might ask 'Isn't folding by hand faster than building all this?' Please don't ask that."

Showing a few of the crashes was a nice touch.

Having gone too far in trying to automate some projects of questionable value I can relate. I'm also impressed by what they are able to do, knowing people must help. Same with easy access to buying the parts they need.

	▲	Animats 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Folding cranes with laparoscopic surgical tools is a training exercise for surgeons.[1] (There are many sped up TikTok versions of this. This is the original, from this paper.[2].) This would be a great robotics project. [1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-AWu37xDwEHTDSmfManDrLzw3Tv... [2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11235411/