I fully endorse this madness :)

Inmoov hardly needs much of anything custom. Certainly from a hardware point of view. Just buy a couple of teensys. I think you need something like 5,1 for each hand, 1 for each arm and 1 for head/neck. The other way if you're trying to add kinect is a 5*5 pc, they're also fairly common. Then you're using ros though and that turns the whole thing into some art project where all you do is print parts, sand them, and put them together.

What is it you like about inmoov? I see 3 of these things every month and the guys who have them talk endlessly about them but all say the same things. Printing, servos, assembly time, and software by someone else using things like ros or ezrobot. Anyway I'd be interested in hearing why you wanted to do this.

Also I don't know how much people are talking about this on forums so if you want some guys at rssc.org have them and love talking about them. Nobody uses the forums though, just the yahoo mailing list. One guy is 100% done, the university robot teacher started his about 2 months ago and hes putting it together pretty quickly, and there is one other guy but I'm not sure about him. He's very slow at making it and hasn't finished printing. Anyway they'd all probably be happy to talk to you about it if you wanted to.

@maginnovision

Thank you, it's much appreciated. I have been intending to sign up there.

We do need a couple of custom chips from a shop in Tokyo for our plans. The focus of this project is to merge technogies seemlessly, in the case of MR1 we have successfully merged him with a robotic vacuum cleaner, with fantastic results I should add.

This is just one of four mergings we have planned.

Thanks again,

Dr Light

I shudder to think about what this means.

At first, I thought this was going to be a thread about Mr. Robot and how you worked on the show. That show was pretty good.

This guy seems alright too, though. Where might I find more info about this yellow nightmare and what he does/can do?

@skinky: I guess I'd need more information. For robotics I've been using xmos processors due to the multithreaded real-time nature. If you want to do something beyond lidar like proper vision, or most of the related vision uses, you have to use something else due to a lack of memory. Although you can connect a bit of flash memory for storage or some sdram but it can be more trouble than it's worth when other solutions exist.

What are your full plans for it? I'd probably be more into the inmoov if it were made for hydraulics, then you could actually make something.