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  • This would be great to take advanced healthcare like surgery to remote communities!
  • Seriously, Are we nunchaku yet? If so, I would like a Bruce Lee edition in classic yellow.
  • Crosses fingers for a general purpose laundry folding bot
  • I hope someone teaches it to perform a highly sophisticated secret handshake.
  • Finally, automatic hand for single man
  • - enactic/openarm_mujoco: https://github.com/enactic/openarm_mujoco

    - "Robots – Comprehensive catalog of 115 humanoid and quadruped robots" re: MJCF in mujoco_menagerie, awesomerobots, robot-descriptions/awesome-robot-descriptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727432

    - I can think of at least one museum that already has interactive demo robot arms that are in need of repair or replacement

  •   A fully open-source humanoid arm for physical 
      AI research and deployment in contact-rich 
      environments.
    
    When will someone release this but for deployment in target-rich environments?
  • $6,500 for OpenArm v2. Incredibly smooth movement, 4kg of load per arm. Its unclear how far the level of autonomous control has come so far. The video shows mostly tele-operated operation. I have to agree with other comments here that folding laundry is the killer app.

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