Record-and-Replay with a ROS 2-powered SO-101tl;dr: The SO-101 can now record a motion to an MCAP ROS bag — by hand-guiding the arm or by teleoperating it — and play it back through the same collision-checked path that teleop uses. Since the recOct 24 · 12 min readkamathrobotics.com
Using Foxglove as an SO-101 Simulatortl;dr: While on a little hiatus from the LeKiwi robot, I decided to build a new SO-101 arm and, in parallel, decided to work on the software side first - using ROS 2 Control and sts_hardware_interfaceSep 25 · 9 min readkamathrobotics.com
SO-101: Kicking off a new seriesBack in my "6 months in" post, I mentioned an SO-101 arm was next on my list - it's finally here, and a lot's happened since: I got a wrist camera into the URDF, turned a second arm into a lamp, and cSep 6 · 10 min readkamathrobotics.com
Giving LeKiwi a Voice: Audio IndicatorsBack when I wrote about adding voice control to LeKiwi, I got the reSpeaker Flex mounted, put the mic array through its paces, and ended the post without testing the speaker, which was wired in but si2Aug 29 · 7 min readkamathrobotics.com
More Autonomous Navigation with LeKiwitl;dr: As a follow-up to Autonomous Navigation with LeKiwi, I worked on three features in this post: I first rewired collision_monitor so that teleoperation gets the same collision protection as auton1Jul 30 · 12 min readkamathrobotics.com
