thank you so much for the great content James! I will advertise your channel on my website roboticsformakers.com for future workshops with kids and makers !
Really cool that you're getting into ROS to bring your robotics projects to the next level. Learning ROS was tough but has allowed me to do some things I never thought I'd be able to with my projects; definitely worth the effort to learn
@@maithreyan.s4687 There are a couple of good ones like 'A light Introduction To ROS' and 'The Programming ROS' prototyping in python is fine but for more serious work port it to C++ ( yes you will see a big increase in performance ). ROS View is nifty as its backend is OpenCV. I use Arch on all my SBC's and have builds of melodic and noetic for them.
This is a really cool project! Before watching the video I was disappointed because it wasn't an OpenDog video, but having watched it now I am equally interested in how this robot will develop! Keep up the great and inspiring work!
James, we need to address the robotic elephant in the room. The mandatory 80s robot naming convention. Really Useful AI Robot? R.U.A.R? We can do better. Since it goes with R.O.S, might I suggest the Functional Roaming AI Sidekick Interactive Everyday Robot. Or F.R.A.S.I.E.R But seriously, this looks awesome. I can definitely see future videos where you're working on projects with FRASIER assisting.
I don't know what to say, I am just pumped to see your videos. You are summing up months of process in one video and I always pause and ponder about how you have made a particular design choice. You would have faced so many errors. It will be fascinating if you can compile a video on error or design problems that you have encountered and how and why you arrived at a particular solution.
Amazing job, thank you. I'm so looking forward to see how you can get ROS navigation running smoothly on this one. I also just joined your UA-cam membership group :)
Awesome video, and very excited to see what brains you've used for this fantastic project. The Xavier is an incredible price of kit. It's significantly more powerful than the PCs I used to build as a kid, and all in something with a footprint not much bigger than a Credit Card. Mind blowing! Very excited to see this develop.
I have made a similar robot platform based on turtlebot3 but a little more powerful. The base is hand folded and cold welded HDPE sheet. I've tried making it as neat as possible but I really do wish I had a 3d printer.😅 Anyways, good job James!
Another nice project James! I've started printing the wheels first - can you tell me which bearings you used and which screws you use to join the plastic plates to the base - I guess self tapping screws, but what size / length do you recommend?
Hey, I'm loving this more gnc focused content. You might be interested in checking out MIT Kimera software. From what I understand it's an open source system. It does localization and mapping as well as object determination for the generated map. I don't know a lot about it but it might be useful for you.
Its been a while since I kept up with your projects as a casual enjoyer. This appears to be very purposeful and well thought out. I wonder how long the planning stage is for all of this, but in the videos its like he came up with an idea on a whim and suddenly he's half done already.
I was going to comment and suggest that the arm moves up and down.. But watching the video shows you planned just that! Consider a stepper or similar in the base and lifting/lowering the arm using a belt running up to the top and back down. It'll reduse the amount of weight you can pick up(And will 'fall' if power fails) but will allow for quite quick lifting/lowering as well as keep the mass at the top quite low when the arm(s) are in the lower position. We've had problems with casters like that causing problems when you go from forward to reverse as the casters 'flip' around and cause a jolt, but your designs are always flexible and modular enough that if this is a problem you can fix it.
Does this need a downward facing sensor on the front to keep itself from driving down stairs? Those little time of flight light sensors would be great for that
How does the wheel pulley attach to the wheel? I printed both, but there's no mounting hole(s), and the pulley just rotates around the wheel. Did you use glue?
Would really love to see a video of how you carry our your design and prototype process. You create some really expensive robots and I'd like to see how you reduce wastage and create good designs
Seems a lot like the Savioke robots, which are also 3D printed I believe (or were at some point). Exciting stuff as always, looking forward to the next part!
If I want to scale this robot down a bit, what would be the best way to do it? I would need to scale it down to 300mm in diameter. Would that leave enough space to mount all the electronics? Would 300mm diameter be too small for this robot? I realize I would have to make some changes to accommodate different motors and electronics.
hi i really love your projects and I want to try making this one myself do you mind if you uploaded the 3d prints design file so I can print it and put the links for the stuff that you used I am a beginner and I really hope i do this project
Hi James, your projects are amazing. Could you tell us the printer settings that you usually print your parts, like nozzle diameter, layer height, printing velocity and extrusion width? Thanks.
For practical task robots, you should have mentioned all your breakfast cooking projects. Just starting to watch... I hope you can tell it to "pass the butter".
Great project. I am tempted to build this so I can play around with the Xavier NX and using AI for navigation. I have some doubts about the TPU tires though. In previous experiments these have never worked very well for me on my ceramic tile floor. Do you have any experience driving this on tiling, laminate or PVC floors ?
@@jamesbruton I had not yet watch the full video. Looks good. I am currently printing for a customer, after that I'll have time (and money) to start my own build ;-) Thanks!
Maybe the dislikes are not for the video but the in-video advertisement. I would dislike a video for adding "commercial breaks" inside a video. I just did not with this one as I'll forgave James becasue this seems like a really AWESOME project.
First, very cool project👍 Perhaps I'm missing the point but why not stream all of the data to a server / pc and do all the calculations there. This robot isn't going to go very fast and your house is a controlled environment which means getting good wife reception shouldn't be a problem. This could improve the available processing power, reduce the power consumption of the bot and makes development faster/easier as you don't have to jump between the robot and your development machine. This could also lower the costs making it cheaper for other people to build it as well.
James, are you planning on making a DIY floor cleaning robot like Roomba? i basically have all the parts, but i just cannot program something like this. its too hard for me.
You know, James… I absolutely love your robot stuff to bits. Really great stuff. But VR is gaining quite a bit of notice right now. (Especially social VR experiences like VRChat.) And I bet that VR is extremely compatible with machine learning and image recognition. The problem, is that VR, and even full body tracking, is a bit expensive. How do you feel about slapping together a quick miracle of engineering for cheap, that people can use with existing VR software? I'm only half joking. VR really is gaining interest. People might be interested in VR related content, even if it doesn't solve a problem. Maybe you could even turn a schematic for one of your robots into an avatar that you could either sell or give away for free advertising. Just throwing the idea out there… If this grabs your interest really hard, but you're worried about lack of skills in avatar rigging and lack of time to learn, you could probably pretty easily find an existing artist to give your robot some spit and polish with speech sound animations and emotes.
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Can you please post a parts list? I really want to make something like this.
Great
Thank you for the 20% off.
its rob 64 from starfox in the premise and usage
thank you so much for the great content James!
I will advertise your channel on my website roboticsformakers.com for future workshops with kids and makers !
Really cool that you're getting into ROS to bring your robotics projects to the next level. Learning ROS was tough but has allowed me to do some things I never thought I'd be able to with my projects; definitely worth the effort to learn
You just need to get your head around pub/sub mqtt not really overly difficult and think modular not one phat app.
Where did you get learned?
@@maithreyan.s4687 self taught, following the ros tutorials starting from the basic publisher/subscriber examples
@@NicholasRehm thank you so much.can you mention any book related to ROS
@@maithreyan.s4687 There are a couple of good ones like 'A light Introduction To ROS' and 'The Programming ROS' prototyping in python is fine but for more serious work port it to C++ ( yes you will see a big increase in performance ). ROS View is nifty as its backend is OpenCV. I use Arch on all my SBC's and have builds of melodic and noetic for them.
Burglar: *breaks into Jame's home & sees 100 robots roaming around that suddenly stop and lock on him* ... "Shit"
This is a really cool project! Before watching the video I was disappointed because it wasn't an OpenDog video, but having watched it now I am equally interested in how this robot will develop! Keep up the great and inspiring work!
ROS and AI will eventually find their way into openDog, but I need to learn how to make it work well first.
Fantastic project! Really looking forward to seeing this one come together as you develop further.
thanks!
When James finally makes his robot girlfriend, she is going to be pretty substantial and firm ;D
She's also gonna be pretty "bottom heavy" too ;]
James, we need to address the robotic elephant in the room. The mandatory 80s robot naming convention. Really Useful AI Robot? R.U.A.R? We can do better.
Since it goes with R.O.S, might I suggest the Functional Roaming AI Sidekick Interactive Everyday Robot.
Or F.R.A.S.I.E.R
But seriously, this looks awesome. I can definitely see future videos where you're working on projects with FRASIER assisting.
We'll see how functional it is, but that title box is only so long!
RUR has an excellent pedigree : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
definitely worth the wait.. brilliant stuff
thanks!
I don't know what to say, I am just pumped to see your videos. You are summing up months of process in one video and I always pause and ponder about how you have made a particular design choice. You would have faced so many errors. It will be fascinating if you can compile a video on error or design problems that you have encountered and how and why you arrived at a particular solution.
It doesn't take me too long these days - mostly things come out right first time ;-)
@@jamesbruton Woag
James Bruton Awesome
Amazing job, thank you. I'm so looking forward to see how you can get ROS navigation running smoothly on this one.
I also just joined your UA-cam membership group :)
Thanks for your support!
I like the way you utilised 3D printing along your projects
This looks very nice.
You are an inspiration my friend. Keep doing awesome things!
Awesome video, and very excited to see what brains you've used for this fantastic project. The Xavier is an incredible price of kit.
It's significantly more powerful than the PCs I used to build as a kid, and all in something with a footprint not much bigger than a Credit Card. Mind blowing!
Very excited to see this develop.
Your design work is really improving. Excellent work on the exterior.
Thanks, this one is an ongoing dev platform so I took a little more care...
I think I've just found my favourite channel of all time. Patron you say? Here i come
The scanning unit reminds me of the terminator entering the bar back in the days
I have made a similar robot platform based on turtlebot3 but a little more powerful. The base is hand folded and cold welded HDPE sheet. I've tried making it as neat as possible but I really do wish I had a 3d printer.😅 Anyways, good job James!
Looking good....waiting for future episodes...
You could put the camera on the arm. It could move up and down to get a better view of the thing you want to pick up.
i like the white and blue color. this very pure and good looking.
"Hey really useful robot get me a beer"
RUR: "Hold my beer... "
I have gotta say. this is the first robot that I am going to just stop doing work to start copying. Incredibly cool
i've seen similar robot base with uv lights mounted on top, used for sanitizing indoor environment. can't wait to see another part. good job sir :)
Another nice project James!
I've started printing the wheels first - can you tell me which bearings you used and which screws you use to join the plastic plates to the base - I guess self tapping screws, but what size / length do you recommend?
Hey, I'm loving this more gnc focused content. You might be interested in checking out MIT Kimera software. From what I understand it's an open source system. It does localization and mapping as well as object determination for the generated map. I don't know a lot about it but it might be useful for you.
This AWESOME! James I think you just levelled up!
An option for the long camera cable is a second board at the top feeding the video by wifi/bluetooth to the Jetson.
You're truly a motivation. Thank you for the videos James.
I am so happy you started using ROS
It's not too bad once you understand it
"There's a thing that goes on this stick we will discuss later."
Reminds me of my dad when I was 12.
Huh?
Its been a while since I kept up with your projects as a casual enjoyer. This appears to be very purposeful and well thought out. I wonder how long the planning stage is for all of this, but in the videos its like he came up with an idea on a whim and suddenly he's half done already.
Love to see a docking station and self charging for for this
Let's see how well navigation works first!
@@jamesbruton If you do auto docking it also needs to make the Roomba noises.
Very clever design.
Beautiful work man!
James new to your channel this was a really cool project. I can't wait to see future builds. Great video!
I was going to comment and suggest that the arm moves up and down.. But watching the video shows you planned just that!
Consider a stepper or similar in the base and lifting/lowering the arm using a belt running up to the top and back down. It'll reduse the amount of weight you can pick up(And will 'fall' if power fails) but will allow for quite quick lifting/lowering as well as keep the mass at the top quite low when the arm(s) are in the lower position.
We've had problems with casters like that causing problems when you go from forward to reverse as the casters 'flip' around and cause a jolt, but your designs are always flexible and modular enough that if this is a problem you can fix it.
Yes I'll probably go for a belt drive so that the top isn't too heavy. I'm considering a gearbox with a worm gear stage so it doesn't fall down.
You can reduce print times and support material if you use 'gradual support infil steps' (what it's called in Cura).
Looks superb!
14:39 "Can you bring me my laptop please?" *rips the monitor off your desk and hands it to you*
This looks so nice
Does this need a downward facing sensor on the front to keep itself from driving down stairs? Those little time of flight light sensors would be great for that
Yes potentially in the future
How does the wheel pulley attach to the wheel? I printed both, but there's no mounting hole(s), and the pulley just rotates around the wheel. Did you use glue?
What's the part number of that relay you used to switch the 24V battery?
Robot: "What is my purpose?"
James: "You pass the butter"
Robot: "Oh My God !"
Brain the size of a planet and what am I for ? Passing the butter.
@@theelmonk Lol, is that Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? I'm not entirely sure.
Would really love to see a video of how you carry our your design and prototype process. You create some really expensive robots and I'd like to see how you reduce wastage and create good designs
Practice mostly, check out the early openDOg V2 videos for more process
James is so comfy with 3D printing he might just go and 3D print a whole car like it's no big deal
I beleive he toyed with the idea some years ago.
Good job!!
6:00 suddenly, haircut.
This man gonna make the next SCP
Is that a concern, or a challange?
Ha yes making an scp
I think we need to address that at @14:35 The camera figured out that James is an airplane. It's on to you James
Are you ever going to add a gripper?
Seems a lot like the Savioke robots, which are also 3D printed I believe (or were at some point). Exciting stuff as always, looking forward to the next part!
I was going for an commercial look, not sure if it's more like a fat Roomba though ;-)
What bearings did you use?
Substantial!
Looks awesome! :)
Looks cool
Looks REALLY cool! And the nVidia magic is really interesting. I will buy one just to play with - VERY interested what you will come up with...
thanks!
Awesome
What software did you use to design it? It looks nice
If I want to scale this robot down a bit, what would be the best way to do it? I would need to scale it down to 300mm in diameter. Would that leave enough space to mount all the electronics? Would 300mm diameter be too small for this robot? I realize I would have to make some changes to accommodate different motors and electronics.
James should build a starwars B1 Battle Droid some time down the line, of all people i could see him printing up a working unit in month.
this is really cool, but I find it funny that that tiny computer is more powerful than my brand new laptop
Very interesting project.
You should make a dock for it so it can charge automatically like a robot vacuum!
That will be one of the plans
hi i really love your projects and I want to try making this one myself do you mind if you uploaded the 3d prints design file so I can print it and put the links for the stuff that you used I am a beginner and I really hope i do this project
What battery do you use.please answer me 😞😞😞😞
Check out part 2!
Fantastic project !!!!!!
Which software you are using for 3D modeling??
Hi james what is the timeline of this project
I am working on building a robot arm with 3d printing, but I can design the belt drive. How did you do it?
Dude you are awesome
Hi James, your projects are amazing. Could you tell us the printer settings that you usually print your parts, like nozzle diameter, layer height, printing velocity and extrusion width? Thanks.
Normally a 0.5mm nozzle, 0.3m layer height, 4 perimeters, 60mm/s
The bigger parts are a 1.2mm nozzle though
Hey, if you are looking for an arm, checkout the open source "Dexter" from Haddington Dynamics.
This is holy amazing
Is that ooznest extrusion? Good stuff.
yep
I hope you know hello robot´s stretch, it's a great manipulator and I hope you are going to build somethind similar to your robot.
Tienes cursos?
Excellent
Run HTOP to see how busy the processor is running.
What is the general cost on a project like this? I assume just the drive system is like $350? It’s useful to know!
i love it
Quite interested to see what you consider are "Useful tasks"
For practical task robots, you should have mentioned all your breakfast cooking projects.
Just starting to watch... I hope you can tell it to "pass the butter".
Fantastic
Great project James! Have you considered auto homing to charge with this system? It may need to be designed in earlier than later, I'm not sure.
Yes, but let's get navigation working well first
@@jamesbruton 10 4 rubber ducky. Can't wait.
How do you build so many robots so quickly?
Planning and lots of 3D printers
@@jamesbruton lol
Great project. I am tempted to build this so I can play around with the Xavier NX and using AI for navigation. I have some doubts about the TPU tires though. In previous experiments these have never worked very well for me on my ceramic tile floor. Do you have any experience driving this on tiling, laminate or PVC floors ?
Yes - full demo in part 2: ua-cam.com/video/dEPvZZ4luV4/v-deo.html
@@jamesbruton I had not yet watch the full video. Looks good. I am currently printing for a customer, after that I'll have time (and money) to start my own build ;-)
Thanks!
...so perfect opportunity to make monitor face if this will have one, to be Wilson from Cast Away :D
That may be one of the uses
Does anyone know the name of the outro music?
What CAD program are you/is he using?
Fusion 360
Imagine disliking such an interesting entertaining video
Maybe the dislikes are not for the video but the in-video advertisement. I would dislike a video for adding "commercial breaks" inside a video. I just did not with this one as I'll forgave James becasue this seems like a really AWESOME project.
First, very cool project👍
Perhaps I'm missing the point but why not stream all of the data to a server / pc and do all the calculations there. This robot isn't going to go very fast and your house is a controlled environment which means getting good wife reception shouldn't be a problem. This could improve the available processing power, reduce the power consumption of the bot and makes development faster/easier as you don't have to jump between the robot and your development machine. This could also lower the costs making it cheaper for other people to build it as well.
There will be multiple sensors - more cameras etc like Intel Realsense which needs to be connected locally.
Which software you use for 3d models
Fusion 360
3:22 James has 3D printed a toilet seat at last. Come on guys, all you knew he was going to do It eventually.
It may yet be a self-navigating, environment-aware comode...
What software creates the .STP files?
Fusion360 or any other CAD
James, are you planning on making a DIY floor cleaning robot like Roomba? i basically have all the parts, but i just cannot program something like this. its too hard for me.
But the program in Roomba is as basoc as it gets. Run; if the bumper is hit, randomize the orientation & run again.
You should build a robot pool cleaner that is actually good
You know, James… I absolutely love your robot stuff to bits. Really great stuff. But VR is gaining quite a bit of notice right now. (Especially social VR experiences like VRChat.) And I bet that VR is extremely compatible with machine learning and image recognition.
The problem, is that VR, and even full body tracking, is a bit expensive. How do you feel about slapping together a quick miracle of engineering for cheap, that people can use with existing VR software?
I'm only half joking. VR really is gaining interest. People might be interested in VR related content, even if it doesn't solve a problem. Maybe you could even turn a schematic for one of your robots into an avatar that you could either sell or give away for free advertising. Just throwing the idea out there…
If this grabs your interest really hard, but you're worried about lack of skills in avatar rigging and lack of time to learn, you could probably pretty easily find an existing artist to give your robot some spit and polish with speech sound animations and emotes.
James you should build a C3PO.....