Nice site Smiller29

https://www.robotsbuilder.com/

Very cool site. Look forward to see where it goes. I see it revolves around alot of 3D printing of a bot. Just wondered, what about the design of a bot made of metal ?  Im still a fan of the Actobotics and GoBuilda designs. I do like the idea on incorporating plastic and metal  and big.

@RoboHappy,   At some point we may get to a version that can be CNC out of aluminum for the core but we are not there yet we need to do a lot more testing first.

The first major goal is to it walking and balance control.  The AutoPosition skill with its inverse kinematics will be a big part of getting to this goal.  The other skills within ARC will also provide a rich set of features in the XR-1 build.

Thanks for the screenshot @DJ. It only opens up tons of new questions. LOL. Out of respect I'll try to wait to ask them until you are ready to shire more info on this new interface.

Beta testers needed?

Haha I’m sure there will be no shortage of beta testers so the first release will be community beta for that reason. The existing ARC and this will be able to operate simultaneously.

As for timing, there’s still serveral tweaks that it’s inheriting from its grandad. Existing ARC has 10+ years of user feedback so that logic is being ported in + collection of feedback that couldn’t fit in current arc. There’s currently only a handful of robot skills ported to it for testing. Once the framework is concrete then the job of porting all robot skills over. So we’re planning on community beta in first quarter of 2024

Just being curious,  Is a Bipedal version going to be the only model to be introduced? What about a wheeled version also ?

The goal is to have many options for builders.  From legs to tracks to wheeled. This is open source so we hope members will help develop options for the platform going forward.