Maxwell, A Mobile Manipulator | RobotShop Community

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Maxwell is my latest attempt at a lowcost, human-scale mobile manipulator using an ArbotiX and ROS. The design guidelines were pretty straight forward: it needed an arm that could manipulate things on a table top, a Kinect for primary sensor on the head, and a mobile base that kept all that stuff upright. Additionally, I wanted the robot to be easy to transport and/or ship.Maxwell sports a larger 16x16" version Armadillo base with motors that should support a 20lb payload at speeds up to 0.5m/s. ...


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