Freeing Humans From Work.
This will be a running post, tracking progress for Figure robotics general-purpose humanoid. March of 2023: Figure emerges from stealth. May of 2023: Bloomberg interview of Brett Adcock, founder shortly after funding: Brett’s LinkedIn post outlining the last twelve months since startup, is a good story.
I am continuing my test of a single actuator, microdriver, masterboard setup. This post will focus on Flashing ODRI’s Microdriver V2. I ordered my Microdrivers V2 (uDriver) from SEEED , by uploading the following files in order: Production time totaled 26 days. Once received I prepared the uDrivers according to the Open Dynamic Robot Initiative …
My flavor of Bolt includes FDM actuators printed in PETG, machined pulleys I sourced myself, electronic hardware I sourced myself, in addition to the DIY approach to motor shaft assemblies. As such, I have been keen to test ODRI Bolt masterboard, microdriver, and actuator before assembling the complete Bolt to ensure that my manufacturing skills …
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About 1X Technologies (formerly Halodi) 1X Technologies a Norwegian robotics company founded in 2015 has a staff of 60. The Company has raised over $36m in seed and series A financing to develop a bipedal robot called Neo. The goal of the company is to create robotics technology that can improve the quality of life …
As I mentioned in my post about setting up a development machine I spent a fair amount of time understanding the right versions of packages and applications for my development machine. The Open Dynamic Robot Initiative has conveniently provided a couple of Dockers to support compiling and running Bolt Software. In maintaining the containerized mentality …