Beautiful work!I like your
Beautiful work!
I like your style, man! Pure DIY work!
The head, the new fingers/hands, that tracks… wow! Many details, and all performed in a brilliant/excellent manner.
Your work with plywood is also brilliant. And the write-up is a pleasure itself.
Can’t wait to see more!
Thanks
Thank you for the compliments. I also find your DIY skills impressive, with your lineage of MDi#4, MDi#3 and earlier 'bots.
Dear SirWhat A huge robot !
Dear Sir
What A huge robot ! how much total weight and height of this robot ?
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quote: "For the arms to be detachable, all the motors that drive the shoulder lift, elbow lift, wrist rotation and gripper open should be on the arm itself"
What’s the motor ? I didn’t see any servo here
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Great Project
Brilliant work, Rebel_Ace… I’ve got to say I admire your attention to detail in every aspect of production. Do you have any plans on releasing the .NET source code at all?
Cheers
Height, Weight and Arm Motors
As mentioned above, MILO stands about 5 feet, 4 inches, and weighs about 300 pounds.
The motors MILO uses are large electric motors that are surplus items from either the automotive market or the electric scooter market or garage door lift market. In the case of the actions of Shoulder Lift, Elbow Bending and Gripper Open/Close, the motors are NOT where the joints are. The mechanical force is conveyed by steel cables. I showed photos in various stages of assembly, so you can’t see the cables or motors in some cases. Since the arms are directly taken from the old “Scout Bot” build, you can watch this video of the arms being tested under manual control. Video of Arm Movement
Source Code
Thanks for the compliments. Taken as a whole, my source code is something of a psychotic mess. As far as releasing any code, I would probably show individual routines or snippets that do something worthwhile or interesting. That way, for folks coding in other platforms, they would not be overwhelmed by all the Dot Net overhead coding that might not be immediately germaine to the task being done. At some point I was going to write something up about the “Face Detection / Face Tracking” routines. Since I just ordered a baker’s dozen sweet new rotational encoders, I will be doing some mechanical re-work, and re-writing some of the motion control routines to take advantage of the capabilities of the new encoders. When I am done with that, perhaps I’ll show some of the code for review and critique.
awesome. I love this huge
awesome. I love this huge robot !
the finger looks cool. I'm waiting for the finger
Nice!
Very nice work & well documented.
Thank you for the kind words.
Thank you for the kind words.
Wow.
I read about that very nice hardware build and was wondering if the programming was on the same level…
… and then you blew me away with a really nice remote console and even a interactive 3D model! ^^
Thank you
Thank you for the kind words. I checked out your Ping Pong ball “juggler”, and was very impressed with its “evolution”.
In particular, I was completely geeked over the iteration where you experimented with sound to locate the position of the ball. Outstanding, and something I probably would never have considered. Very, very clever.
Woww!!
Just signed up to this website and yours was the first project I came across. Needless to say if this is the standard of other project on this site, I have much to catch up (just a beginner).
Thank you for such detailed description of the work and the effort that went into making this robot.
I am sure to be interested in more updates that come from your side. All the very best for future projects too. Once again a very professionally executed project and it deserves a pat on your back.
Inspiring Projects
Rramesh,
If you really want to see inspiring, high quality projects on this site, be sure to check out these other pages:
Dickel’s Amazing MDi #4
Antonb’s PhD project MTR
Unix_Guru’s Mars Rover
Nixon_Files’ Movies come to Life
Steelsquid’s Squidscout
And too many more to list here.
This site has robots on Wheels, Tracks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 Legs, robots that swim, fly and slither.
From all around the world. You’re going to love it here.
Welcome to LMR!
Very Impressive Robot!
Looks fantastic - thanks for the detailed build thread!
good work, I like your
good work, I like your robot~~
Trully an amazing piece of
Trully an amazing piece of engineering. My hats off to you for the amount of dedication and detail and devotion you have put into this project. You my sir deserve a pat on the back and a steak dinner. Please put a video up when you get a chance. Great job you did.
Thank you for sharing.
Too bad.
Too bad about everything that could go wrong did go wrong while attending the science show, still the interaction between Milo and the kids was nice to see.
How are the threads holding? There must be a whole lot of force pushing a pulling on those glued rubber pads.
Tread Wear and Tear
Since the treads were first used on the ScoutBot, that makes them about 4 years old. They are in surprisingly good shape. I have just one that has partially separated from the stainless steel plate. When the robot is moving in a straight line, there is very little stress on the pads, with respect to their plates. However, when the robot is turning, the differential drive produces very large shear forces on the pads, but those forces work across the entire surface area of the glued joint. They DO NOT want to slide off.
However, the pads are subject to “peeling” off, if a foreign object manages to wedge itself between the plate and the tread, which is what happened on my partially separated track.
Steak
I like my steaks as I like my Robots, “well done”. 
Thanks for the kind words.
Awesome!
I’m amazed by your work! It’s really cool!
I was wondering if the glued together rubber tracks were holding under stress… Are they? If it does, then you just found an awesome way of doing rubber tracks!
Continue your great job!
