Building your own humanoid robot doesn’t have to cost a fortune. As University of California, Berkeley researchers have shown, it is possible to build one with off-the-shelf components. The Berkeley Humanoid Lite has a 3D printed, modular gearbox for its actuators and body. Its hardware design, embedded code, and training and deployment frameworks are all fully open-source.
This robot can be teleoperated to get tasks done. It can also write its own name with a marker or play with a Rubik’s Cube. The above video shows it in action. Since this has a modular design, you can always improve it with custom components.
[HT]