I’m looking for advice on which of the robotic arms either assembled or kit would be a good choice for a robotic mascot I’m building for a local robotics program. The idea is to have 2 articulated arms on this robot that would attempt to imitate the pose of a person facing the robot based on arm positions calculated using an application I wrote
http://ibm.biz/veremin
check it out… It runs on any iOS phone or tablet, android windows, back… Interested in feedback. Turn on the audio and you can make somewhat beautiful music by waving your arms . you can read about it here https://medium.com/codait/veremin-a-browser-based-video-theremin-1548b63200c )
t my aim is to use a set of a 4 or 5 DOF Arms To track slow and even motion someone’s arms. I know that small robotic arms are not likely to be able to react quickly, but vven if it doesn’t work perfectly I think it would be fun… The entire robot with track the person watching it so I think it would be a fun interactive experience…
I prefer speed and smoothness to lifting power or grip strength… I also would like something that is robust because this would be in use with a bunch of kids…
Any suggestions for which arms < $800 each would be appropriate? There are so many to choose from!
Any input on arms or on the total idea would be much appreciated!
thanks !
john cohn
Hello @johncohn and welcome to the RobotShop community,
The app looks amazing! Great job!
Now about the arm, you can find all the options available in the Robotic Arms & Grippers and Robot Manipulators sections of the store.
A great option is the LSS Robotic Arm because it allows customization and expansion for applications through the use of additional parts, includes a power supply, connects to a PC with a USB cable (for programming), it has smart servos that can be easily programmed using the LSS communication protocol (which is human readable), and you could also use other programming languages, for example there are Arduino and Python libraries for these servos, it also has a graphical user interface (LSS FlowArm) and it is a RobotShop original so you will be able to get all the support and information you need.
Geraldine,
Thank you very much for the recommendation… I was looking at that one. My only concern is that it’s pre-assembled. I believe I’m going to have to do some serious mods to get this to mount in the way I want because it needs to fold. Do you have a recommendation for another arm that is more of a kit build?
There is also a kit version:
You can find the parts list here:
https://wiki.lynxmotion.com/info/wiki/lynxmotion/view/servo-erector-set-robots-kits/ses-v2-robots/ses-v2-arms/lss-4dof-arm/
And in case you’re interested the assembly guide is here:
https://wiki.lynxmotion.com/info/wiki/lynxmotion/view/servo-erector-set-robots-kits/ses-v2-robots/ses-v2-arms/lss-4dof-arm/4dof-arm-quickstart/
The arm is designed around the fully configurable Lynxmotion Smart Servo motors and Lynxmotion Servo Erector Set (SES v2) modular construction system, so you can get some additional parts for customization in this section:
https://www.robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion-ses-v2-parts.html
