Wim Wende

doing things

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@_fracapuano @orcahand the barrier of entry for open source dexterity research is falling weeek by week 🫢

[Francesco Capuano @_fracapuano]

Robotics is stuck at grippers, but it doesn't need to be.

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👨‍🍳 Introducing orca, a fully #opensource software stack for dexterity research built on top of the @orcahand, your friendly open-source robot hand

3d-print your humanoid hand (or buy it for ~€3k), and take it for a robot-learning-spin. Now, it takes ~10 lines of code

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@iamRezaSayar @orcahand *everyone who can can afford a laptop i guess :/

[ORCA Dexterity @orcahand]

want to skip assembly and start training your policies today?
→ get a fully assembled and tested orcahand, starting at $3,500
on https://t.co/xcHjCgOD5P

[ORCA Dexterity @orcahand]

find all STLs on GitHub https://t.co/7EcdGblhVr for the
• orcahand Touch (17 DOF + tactile sensing channels)
• orcahand v2 (17 DOF)

[ORCA Dexterity @orcahand]

Today #opensource dexterity became accessible to everyone! 🤯
just follow along the step-by-step assembly video and build your own 17 DOF orcahand v2 from our $1,700 BOM kit

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@orcahand damn i wish i had a an assembly video like this for the first hand i assembled

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@orcahand 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳

[ORBIT @orbitrobotics]

The future has arrived!

After a long wait, we are finally ready to reveal our complete space humanoid HELIOS.

After two semesters of intense work, research and iteration, this is what we have to show.

4 arms. 4 hands. 1 vision. 1 dream.

[Francesco Capuano @_fracapuano]

Become a robot with this thread

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

cool to see the v1 @orcahand in ETH Zurich’s @srl_ethz paper introducing the POMDAR benchmark https://t.co/RjosZTZd5V that measures what the hand actually does in contact-rich tasks and not just DoF or workspace.
curious to see how the v2 with tactile and joint sensing will score

[Francesco Capuano @_fracapuano]

Extremely happy and grateful to @reach_vb and @OpenAI for supporting my research and addiction for open-source contributions with Codex

open source for the win! I am working on something I am super proud of right now, releasing it soon 👀🧑‍🍳

[ORCA Dexterity @orcahand]

glad to see that chinese closed source hardware companies are adopting our design @Linker_hand

[ORCA Dexterity @orcahand]

Last week, we announced our three new hands. Today, we're releasing their digital twins ↓↓↓

> new orcahand mjcf/urdf files available on https://t.co/PfhpWlc3V2
> custom learning environment @ https://t.co/qX9hRDjuUN

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@jingzi_zhao_x @orcahand sure. feel free to use 虎鲸巧手 as our Chinese company name ;)

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@jaymos @orcahand they are taxels, so not primarily for surfaces texture but more pressure. can read up on that tech online… there are a few good papers

[One Life Be Curious @1lifebqrious]

@orcahand Only assembly instruction I could ever follow ✨

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@shadowdefense @orcahand right now it has >100N (so >10kg) grip strength but it can likely do 2-3x more just using plastics as is

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@ryan_punamiya i would have to agree

[Wim Wende @WendeWim]

@barolarrive same tho