Stringman, an $800 open-source room-scale gripper robot
nharada · hn · 2026-11-04
A Hacker News post highlights Stringman, an open-source room-scale gripper robot priced around $800 from neufangled.com — a low-cost, hackable approach to robot manipulation drawing community attention.
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