Article explores what to search when designing robot arms beyond stacked heuristics
k7agar · x · 2026-10-17
A shared article, "What to Search When You Design an Arm," argues most robot arms are designed by stacking sensible heuristics — low distal mass, high singularity conditioning, large workspace, torque headroom — but with such a large design space, that approach falls short. The piece explores how to systematically search the arm design space instead.
More from Embodied
- India's Altersage unveils Cocobot, billed as first commercially viable coconut-harvesting robot — Scobleizer · 2026-10-17
- Quadruped robot tech transforms into an all-terrain wheelchair — TinfoilTricorn · 2026-10-17
- AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in $8.2B all-stock deal; Li becomes Chief Scientist — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-10-17
- Prototype drowned in electrical noise: a logic analyzer to the rescue — StewartalsopIII · 2026-10-17
- Musk says Optimus will build Optimus Prime; Beff Jezos riffs on the MECHA — beffjezos · 2026-10-17
- CEB SAM 3D Body Loader for Blender goes free: full AI mocap & animation studio — ssh4net · 2026-10-17