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Stringman: an $800 open-source room-scale gripper robot
Neufangled Robotics' cable-driven robot hangs a 2-DoF gripper from four ceiling anchors and tidies a whole room for about $800, running LeRobot policies on local hardware.
Why it matters
First open-source cable robot that turns an entire room into a robot's workspace, no wheels and no humanoid joints, for under $800, with OSHWA-certified open hardware.
What you could build with it
A robotics hobbyist could build a Stringman in a garage workshop and train it with LeRobot teleoperation to tidy a playroom, sharing imitation-learning data with other builders.
Does it hold up?
Public prototype by its own documentation: it can self-calibrate and run policies, but is not yet reliable enough to be called a home appliance. A maker project, not a product.
Built with Stringman
- Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robottheregister.com · Hands-on report: $795 list price, three Raspberry Pis, self-calibration, and a public prototype that is not yet a home appliance.
- Stringman Unveils $800 Open-Source Ceiling Cable Robot for Room-Scale Manipulationnextvector · Breakdown of the four-anchor cable design, 2kg payload, and LeRobot integration for teleoperation and imitation learning.
- A $795 Ceiling Robot Wants Your Whole Roomstartuphub.ai · Price, bill of materials, air-gapped local operation, and the 7x7x3m work volume.
- huggingface/lerobotgithub · 28,717 ★ · The open-source robotics library Stringman's firmware and policies build on, for teleoperation and imitation learning.
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