This week in robotics: Friday March 20th 2026

This week in robotics March 17th

Two big announcements - UMA exits stealth and the V2.3 DexHand is published on Github

THOR!! Big shout out to my friends at Nvidia for sending me one of the first Thor units for testing.

THOR!! Big shout out to my friends at Nvidia for sending me one of the first Thor units for testing.

Mini SO-ARM model, single hit 3dprint! https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100/tree/main/Mini

HOPEJr Right leg full assembly.

HOPEJr, 2nd draft, Carbon Pelvis

HOPE2 robot arm first movements!

HOPEJr first draft right leg, mechanical assembly completed!

V1 DexHand with dataglove control by Max Titov and Martino Russi

People ❤️ robots at SPS #maxonmotor

V2 DexHand Tendon driven robot hand

Second_Arm_Draft and First_Hand_Draft, open, low-cost, DIY tendon driven humanoid robot.

Raw HL_Arm_10

Raw HL_Arm_02

Raw HL_Arm_03

Raw HL_Arm_04

Raw HL_Arm_06

Raw HL_Arm_09

Raw HL_Arm_11

HOPELite: Open-source, DIY, humanoid robots: First Finger Draft

HOPELite: Open-source, DIY, humanoid robots: First Draft of 7DOF Arm

HOPELite: Open-source, DIY, humanoid robots: Arm_Test_01

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SOLIDWORKS 2018 SP5 0 SO 7DOF ARM100 08h HL 02b SLDASM 2024 10 07 23 45 33

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HOPELite: Open-source, DIY, humanoid robots: Finger_Test_01

SO-Arm100 Assembly Detail: Base bulk, clip and clamp with wiring order

SO-Arm100 Assembly Detail: Extra base bearing on underside of rotation joint

The HOPELite! A low-cost, DIY, open-source, humanoid platform optimised for ease of use/maintenance.

Robot Building 101: Overnight Prints - Always a joy, when they work ;-)

Robot Building 101: Overnight Prints

3 free projects! Free designs for low-cost humanoid robots.

The Robot Studio - DIY, low-cost robots!

Les Machines d’Ile! What a marvellous contraption!

More insect robot slo-mo!

Well done Vlad! V1 DexHand assembled and moving!

Compliant insect robot landing in slo-mo

Normal speed insect robot landing 😁

Real robot workshop - time for the summer break!

Assembly detail, correct method for screwing plastic prints to aluminium servo horns

How to connect an Arduino to a PC running visual mediapipe in the V1 DexHand

Want to help with building robots?

Want to help with building robots?

Robots with hands using the same tech as people will allow embodied AI robots to transcend IT 🤔

Everything looks better in slo-mo V1 #dexhand first finger motion test knuckles and long flexor

Robot dogs and humanoids!

End-to-end robot picking by mimic at the 5th annual ETH Innovation day in Zurich

V2 #dexhand robot hand dexterity demonstration

Test premium vs budget servo by upgrade base pitch servo in the SO-ARM-100 #open #robot #arm

V2 DexHand looped sequence of grasp positions

Test premium vs budget servo by upgrade base pitch servo in the SO-ARM-100 #open #robot #arm

Servo Upgrade! for the SO-ARM-100 #robot #lowcost #diy #3dprinted #huggingface

Just a quick run through of some basic poses to check everything is still working!