Our Next General Meeting is on November 19 (one week early)

[camp .]

    Because "last Wednesday" is the night before Thanksgiving.

    We will meet in person at the InOrbit* Robot Space (285 Castro St, Mountain View) and on Zoom.

InOrbit Robot Space

https://www.inorbit.ai/robotspace 

    Our own Nathan Lewis will give the presentation.

Title: LeKiwi Low-Cost Mobile Manipulator

Summary: Earlier this year, SIGRobotics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduced the "LeKiwi Low-Cost Mobile Manipulator" - an open-source, 3D-printable robot that pairs a TheRobotStudio SO-ARM101 5-DoF robotic arm with a 3-wheel holonomic chassis and is intended to be used with the HuggingFace LeRobot framework.

SIGRobotics-UIUC/LeKiwi

https://github.com/SIGRobotics-UIUC/LeKiwi

TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100

https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100

    Since the robot doesn't have an official ROS package, Nathan has set out to integrate the LeKiwi with ROS 2. Join us for a walkthrough of his work-in-progress ROS package, which provides ros2_control integration for the robot's actuators, MoveIt integration for the arm, and simulation models based on the original model files.

Hope you can make it!

Thanks,

Camp

* Scheduling conflict at Maker Nexus.