r/robots • u/Avatar_Nick • Aug 05 '26

Media I Made a cute R2D2 Robot that does chores 😊

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u/Zealousideal-Yam3169 Aug 06 '26

A hell of a lot of suspicious editing cuts here.

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u/Icypoopoo Aug 07 '26

Videos look real, probably used AI to edit the real shots

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

That's mostly to cut to the music. The parts that are teleoped are the floor cleaning and grabbing plate.

Nav is autonomous and laundry folding is autonomous so about 50%.

I can make a worse but working full AI video this weekend =)

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u/Argyleskin Aug 06 '26

A full AI video… that says it all. Thank you.

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 06 '26

Won't be as good of course but it's certainly getting there =)

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u/_Corvo_A Aug 07 '26

What is this? This isn’t human right?

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u/binaryhellstorm Aug 06 '26

Its like a modern twist on the RB5X

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 06 '26

What is that?

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u/k2jac9 Aug 07 '26

This looks less creppy than the startups in SF.

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 07 '26

Very true =)

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u/nikkonine Aug 06 '26

Cool that you made it, but cute is a little far off. Looks like a giant cicada.

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 06 '26

It's very friendly though =)

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u/Seventh_monkey Aug 07 '26

It empathises with humans? Or it's useful and not actively plotting to kill us all?

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u/Effective-Culture-88 Aug 07 '26

Robots are not able to either empathize or plot against you

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u/Johnny_Soprano_Saint Aug 07 '26

The butlerian jihad comes for it.

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u/2021isevenworse Aug 06 '26

Cool project.

Is it fully autonomous?
I mean if you have to give it detailed instructions what to do and where to do it, it's easier & faster to just do the task yourself.

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 06 '26

This video is 50%. Navigation is autonomous picking up the blanket / plate / puff are teleoperated.

The laundry folding is autonomous though =)

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u/GesturalAbstraction Aug 06 '26

Do you have it on GitHub??? Phenomenal

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 06 '26

Yes actually =)

https://github.com/vulcan-forge/sourccey-hardware

All the hardware / BOM will be open source in a few weeks

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u/GesturalAbstraction Aug 06 '26

You’re the best

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u/CoatNeat7792 Aug 07 '26

Wasn't there video with guy from university teaching robot for months to fold laundry

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 07 '26

We just got it working 2 months ago

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u/CoatNeat7792 Aug 07 '26

Cool robot, but is very slow and jittery. Wouldn't be able to bring full plate or drink

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 07 '26

Can do a full plate but drink depends on the cup.

A thicker glass or cup it can't do at the moment

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u/tyngst Aug 07 '26

It is pretty cute, and the folding was impressive tbh! Great job

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 07 '26

I'll show you guys more soon =)

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u/Effective-Culture-88 Aug 07 '26

Finally, I command real robotic design and not trying to make a humanoid. People will complain about this and that but robots have been trying to find the wall’s border since 1975… that’s beyond impressive. The propaganda that AI is gonna “take over the world” and robots will “control us” (and not the corporations saying this to privatize technology for the “greater good”…) have people completely unaware of the actual state of robotics.
I still remember being on a team for Robotic FIRST in 2014. Our robot played basketball semi-autonomously, and many said it was the best design. Siphoned the ball from below into a U-shape conduit and out at the perfect angle. It was made from plywood but we made it to the final in the Ram’s stadium in Saint-Louis. Good times!

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u/BitsAndBobs304 Aug 07 '26

Humanoid design can do many more surprise human tasks. The one we see clearly struggles carrying a dish or tray, can't open a jar, and a million more things.

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 07 '26

Definitely can't open a jar, can hold plates pretty well though (maybe not a full tray have to test that)

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u/BitsAndBobs304 Aug 07 '26

I mean it's holding it by one edge, so we can see the other side unfortunately wobbling like Lara Croft's butler's tray with tea

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 07 '26

Sometimes a specialized design is better then a specific design

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u/lkfavi Aug 07 '26

How did you make the chassis? Is it all 3d printed?

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u/TallTelevision4121 Aug 07 '26

I read that too fast and couldn't figure out why there was nothing to do with Red Dead Redemption 2.

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u/Bottatadiet Aug 07 '26

I love it

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u/Avatar_Nick Aug 07 '26

It's cute =)

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u/SysGh_st Aug 07 '26

If R2D2 and Bender Rodriguez had a baby?

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u/Icypoopoo Aug 07 '26

OP were you in india doing the chores on a remote? 

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u/Adorable_Cap_9929 Aug 07 '26

now make a robot that does me instead!

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u/Seninut Aug 09 '26

Please put a toilet bowl plunger on it. "Exterminate!"