[OAC] July 21: Qubot with Jayce Cheng

[Tim Dobbs]

Hi all,

Join Open Automation Club on Tuesday, the 21th of July at 12:00am Pacific / 8:00am UK / 15:00h Singapore time for a discussion with Jayce Cheng and Pablo Velasco about their recent preprint on the Qubot - a modular open-source robotics platform for materials science and and engineering (MSE). This work is exciting, as it includes a set of specific applications and protocols, and also supports considerations that often get overlooked in OAC, like stress testing.

And yes, this is an unusual time for OAC - I hope that this creates opportunities for new attendees who are unavailable at the usual times.

Here is a quote from the abstract:

Here we introduce the Qubot, a flexible and modular robotic platform designed to meet the requirements of MSE experiments that is built from standardized cost-effective components, lowering the financial and technical barriers for adoption. We characterize the Qubot performance using internationally recognised protocols, demonstrating repeatability and precision superior to commonly used motion platforms that are retrofitted for experimental work. Finally, we validate the design through stress testing in representative experimental tasks and demonstrate their flexible modularity by applying them in two fully automated laboratory workflows related to the preparation and characterization of shampoo formulations and polymer electrolytes.

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89147850977?pwd=tNM1kNM5ZhcNmxCnWCydgX6sUHmmqQ.1

Shared Notes link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DqOpvehO3UDMq-T97Ioz-0qZSTXJwkM2w8-REAQcpBU/edit?usp=sharing

You'll also receive a calendar invite.zoom

And finally, here is the recording of our last meeting with Nico Méndez and Open Lab Automata.

Looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting

❤️🤖,

Tim

[Tim Dobbs]

Hi all,

A reminder about this great talk about implementing a modular robotics platform for material science. Note that it is at an unusual time. Tuesday, the 21st of July at Midnight Pacific / 8:00am UK / 15:00h Singapore time.

This is part of an effort to create more opportunities to hear from our colleagues in the Asia/Pacific timezones - I hope you can make it!

❤️🤖,

Tim