Extremely Fast Way to Prototype in Robotics!

I have tested the HEBI robotics actuators. The most impressive thing about them is how incredibly fast you can build and program the robot! My main conclusion: if you want to build the robot very quickly and to program it easily, use HEBI robotics.

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[Skyentific]

Yes, these actuators are very expensive. But: 1. We can learn even from looking at expensive actuators! 2. API from HEBI robotics can be used even for your DIY robot (and it is free). 3. We learn that even the actuators with big backlash have future and applications. For me, these 3 points are more than enough to consider this video useful.

[ddegn]

Has anyone noticed these are expensive?
It was still a fun video. Thanks Skyentific.

[DrMukeshBangar]

Great informative video. Thanks for sharing.

[mattanimation]

so glad to see a review on these, as I will probably never be able to afford them :P

[singhlaprit]

I really like your channel always a lot educative

[CarstenBe]

Well they are $4k so they better be easy

[semphony]

Thank you so much for sharing. We have been trying for ever to come up with a low budget reliable closed loop actuator design that probably involves a strain wave gear ( harmonic drive) and a stepper motor for a robot joint, in order to help the low budget robotics research enthusiasts like our robotics team. We hope you could help towards such a goal.

[TheRainHarvester]

It would be neat to follow the change in torque so the robot can notice sudden changes (ie collisions) rather than just stop at a specific torque. That way the robot could still lift heavy loads in different orientations while still detecting collisions. Collisions could be picking up a fragile package, while the heavy load could be the robot arm itself. I'd love to write this code! I did table-driven Collison detection on my 30' robot hand electronics.

[Will_Huff]

Another great video. I sure wish someone would build a more affordable version of these types of actuators. The price is too high even for pro-sumer level. $3000 an axis? Wow.

[dunichtich]

WOW! Great Video as always, thank you for showing us these awesome actuators! 😊👍🏼

[ceesvanberkel]

Nice, except for the price... that hexapod kit is a whopping 100, 000

[dankdax]

Thank you for the great videos and awesome channel!
Really enjoy your videos. Very insightful.
Keep it up!

[EngineeringSpareTime]

Nice one! I followed a similar approach (two years ago) of building a modular robot joint with a full metal cycloidal transmission, BLDC + Driver. I just documented it (first test) - you might enjoy watching it :)

[TheRainHarvester]

Very cool! Do all the examples come with source code (even the gui "programmed" examples)?

[nicholasziglio]

Very nice but they cost more than some industrial robots :O

[markos]

Gruezi! great video :) Indeed this looks like a great mechanical design for rapid prototyping, do you think we can use the mit mini cheetah actuators with brackets to implement a similar mechanical design for a robot arm? do you think the mit mini cheetah actuator bearings can take the axial and radial loads?

Thank you in advance!

[hXhXhX]

In the next video, you will show us how to make this actuator, right?

[AllmanUA]

Супер. Может скоро появится робот для "собери сам"

[oldcowbb]

oh yeah, the super fun but super expensive hebi

[dekutree]

Come on, what happened to "creating the bright future with robots for everyone"? Even the $500 mini-cheetah actuators were too expensive for most people. Your old stepper arm was great. I'd like to see more <$1000 useful robot designs.