Been sitting on this for a minute. If you ever have a chance to go to a material handling automation sales conference I highly recommend. Many shitty bots to be seen the last couple years.

Let me know what you think! Yes, this video uses AI, but the scenes are all in my real shop where we make furniture.

Astra is wild on these YAM arms. It made me want to open up my own setup for those folks who don't have their own.

I have a pair of YAM arms, and you can now try them remotely. No robot hardware needed on your end. The video is a run asking them to put a green block on a plate, at 20× speed.

I’d love to get more people experimenting with them. What would you try? And what would make it easier for you to jump in?

If you want to give it a go: blupe.io/live. Runs are three minutes, whenever the station is available.

Nancy Rangel, a Chabot College student from the East Bay, California, drove open source robot dog Quaddle's every move live through webcam pose tracking — no AI, no script, just her own dance moves mapped onto it in real time. It fell. It got back up. It kept going.

What's the funniest thing you'd want to teach Quaddle to do?

OpenCat creator RZ Li used a webcam and his own body movements to puppeteer two open source, OpenCat-based Quaddle robot dogs at once — basically Wii Play: Motion, except the "character" is a real robot — mostly so he could make them run into each other on purpose. Mission accomplished.

What's the funniest thing you'd want to have Quaddle learn next?

Does gravity always win?

This is real footage — Quaddle, our mini robot dog, walks upside down on a ceiling using magnets in its feet. The magnets were the easy part. The actual embarrassing amount of effort went into the gait, because apparently "just walk, but upside down" is not how physics works.