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Outside of writing, reading, and having a family, I actually work full time and have several projects going on. But today I’m not going to talk about my current projects (although, the kitchen renovation will likely be done in the next 2 days.)

Instead, today I will be talking about a coworkers project that they have been working on and recently won a hackathon competition with. My coworkers’ team were able to create two robotic arms that were able to mimic each other and operate by themselves after being taught by the controller arms.

Without getting too technical or in the weeds. They first had to buy and assemble the robot arms, then they had to connect them to the controllers wirelessly and train them on libraries and through the training arm (which the human will interact several times acting as the arm). Each arm is equipped with a camera and there is one watching the whole scene, this information is also fed to the model for training.

After several tests, the team was able to have both sets of arms pick up delicate little soft cakes, pick them up, and move them to another box on their own! Additionally, and just as fascinating, is without being taught this, the arms were able to avoid each other and avoid the areas each arm was working. At one point, one arm is seen waiting it’s turn for the other arm to complete its task!

I’m starting my own robotics/tinkering project shortly. If you’re interested in projects like this and the ability to attempt them yourself, there is a nice community at Hackster.io – The community dedicated to learning hardware. This is where I have found my first project that I will be attempting. The community is also incredibly welcoming, warm, and happy to share what they are doing/learning.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of my coworkers’ accomplishment:

Running LeRobot SO-100 ARM on NVIDIA Isaac-GR00T N1 – Hackster.io