Adroid: Augmenting Hands-on Making with a Collaborative Robot
summary
A robotic system mounts hand tools to a KUKA arm and measures user-applied forces to move or resist the tool, creating software-defined jigs that constrain motion like a drill guide or miter box. Prototypes include a drill with AR crosshairs and snap-to-grid haptic snapping, a measurement probe, a track saw that records cut history, and a camera slider. A custom force-torque sensor with similar resolution to $5k units costs under $100 and the setup demonstrably works for hands-on fabrication.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:21Background
- 1:52Purpose
- 2:18Tools
- 2:52Hand Drill
- 3:29Probe Tool
- 3:55AR View
- 4:31Camera Rig
- 5:05Interactions
- 5:25Force Torque Sensor
- 6:00Conclusion
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