3D Printed Open Source Telepresence Robot!

We kick off our Maker Faire 2016 coverage with this awesome telepresense robot made by researchers at the Galileo University in Guatemala. The robot's body is based off of the open-source InMoov project, with remote control via an Oculus DK2 headset and Perception Neuron motion capture system. Telepresense with some sense of proprioception!
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[@LOKO22Bach]

"they donated two 3d printers to us to keep printing prosthetics, so we decided to print something else"

[@Niiwastaken]

I think your underestimating how much free time builds up for them

[@shadowblack1987]

? He said a company donated 2 3D printers to continue the research, so now that they have multiple 3D printers they can work on bigger things too.

[@LOKO22Bach]

wow, chill people, the purpose of my comment wasn't to bring anyone down, just a small giggle

[@MajesticMage]

1:47 some naughty action going on down there

[@ddpxl]

welcome to the future

[@SurfNinja92]

I knew someone had to notice lol

[@spijkerpoes]

+Randy “RandyofSD” Rorschach yeah skype sex on a new level!

[@blizatrex]

I could see this progressing to the levels seen in surrogates where people could stay home and experience the world virtually.

[@MikeTrieu]

Oh, cool, I remember meeting these guys at least year's Maker Faire across from the e-NABLE booth. The already had most of their current setup working, but the addition of the Perception Neuron controller adds significantly to the sense of interactivity and realism. The motor movements are still too slow for real-time interaction, but perhaps pneumatic actuators could speed that up.

[@TheKirklandGamer]

i remember a sitcom in the 90's having this concept.. some guy was controlling a robot clown with shit like this. that's awesome

[@orkun171]

this has a really good potential

[@TheDallasdeadeye]

Interesting imagine a movie theater that has these guys in all the seats and u can watch from home but still get the movie watching experience.

[@TheBreezus]

This was very cool. I would never have to physically be there and I would have my robot bring me my lunch. If I did manual labor, I would do it through this robot, if I was disabled I would secure work using a TP robot. So many good things can come from this.

[@jacemachine]

LOVE the new intro! I've been wondering when you guys were gonna take Jamie off, since he never really did much on TESTED except make a failed spider walking robot. I wish Jamie the best, but I'm even more excited to see Adam take center stage in the new intro. That's what I'm really getting at.

[@WMfin]

Please, make more detailed video about Inmoov. I would start printing one but lack money for all the electronics right now but it is just super interesting!

[@lacieemery2842]

Such an amazing show. Thank you guys for such a great job bringing us all this awesome information and thank you for entertaining us. You all all really wonderful.

[@joseinakialvaradoalonso1855]

Let's go Guatemala!!! Well done!

[@Myujin]

reminds me of the movie "surrogates"

[@FreazyTek]

Yes the puppet looks like the robots in surrogate :)

[@Myujin]

i mean this idea of robotic vr-teleconference (being in other place with the aid of vr instead of traveling there with our original body) reminds me of the movie "surrogates" where people go outside using their "robotic avatar" while using it in the comfort/security of their home. Of course this one is not there yet, but imagine if this developed further (strap some legs and external power/battery for instance) it will be inching closer to that, but doesn't mean it will be a dystopian future though.

[@drewby4701]

Their ideas sound great, but REALLY ambitious! Best of luck to them!

[@_MoRZiLLo50]

Totally Awesome! Thank You! :)

[@desiskarzetti2999]

Never mind making omelettes... militarise it, and get them full bodied on the battlefield. Terminator style.

[@danielsandoval8308]

Vamos Guatemala!!!

[@wolf432]

1:47 nut tap lol

[@phlyphlo]

I think telepresence would be fantastic for exploring outer space.

[@Wanderlust1972]

In the future "tele" will be an abbreviation for telepresence and telephone will be the archaic form.

[@zebruhfpv8184]

the potential of what this could lead to, rob a bank with a humanoid via wifi

[@VLAHECO]

GUATEAMALA? SO COOOOOLL

[@Mekhanic1]

I can't wait for it to cook a nomalette ! sold!

[@Jarb2104]

What is a nomalette?

[@dunnoboah]

An omelette, but it comes with extra noms (nom nom nom) = nomelette.

[@masonsaint580]

The robot almost grabbed his balls lol ! 1:47

[@CanalDojogames]

man this is perfect,i love to see 3D áudio,and it can be used on movies,game captures (mocap) and porn vídeos (VR), it gives The sensation where The expectator is and helps much to see what he is looking.. it really can help if move more fast to help on mocaps... it can even be for livestream,much people can conect to it via stream and live The events without come out of home. EPIC,these guys can revolutionate The VR industry

[@ashwinjhamb]

They should try having a microphone with the headphones and have it so that you can speak to the microphone and it is spoken through the android.

[@codshortclips]

The "Broken" finger on the left hand of the robot looks so messed up. Straighten it out please! :D

[@RoelfvanderMerwe]

What an awesome dude

[@chrismartin6427]

1:48 The robot is grabbing the guy is nuts lol

[@fpvnafret]

GUATEMALA!!!! me encanta!! exitos

[@trickboarder247]

3:50 that pinky lol

[@TheRustAdmin]

In the title, there should be a comma after the word Printed and Source.

[@Stuka87]

Like the new intro. And that is a very cool telepresence device!

[@Stengell]

Making your nightmares become real... thanks

[@zorroapero8643]

Shut up !

[@DJ_BoomBear]

welcome back to the uncanny valley!

[@maxkordon]

perturbator rocks

[@ninolium8223]

Nice intro dude!

[@joeleustice]

What happened to Jamie?

[@sherri99516]

Excellent post!

[@DOTTORE_FOX]

Is there a version which includes locomotion? Than you could seriously go into that lion cage...

[@ccricers]

I thought of I, Robot... this must be the first generation NS1

[@JorgeRamirez-dj7lp]

Hello! Is there documentation on how to integrate the VR glasses into the robot? How they did it? HELP ME

[@wilgarcia1]

pretty cool

[@DigitalSwagg]

So cool! Amazing stuff

[@91722854]

so close to how tony stark controlled his mark 42 in Iron Man 3

[@mrbluenun]

Brilliant!

[@niqhtt]

did he say the next step would be "to have this working properly" ? O.o

[@LetsTakeWalk]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA ROBOTS.

[@thefinityking]

I'm more worried about one of them turning into ultron

[@melanydayanamoralesgrijalv6517]

vamos guate vamos ali

[@cognisant307]

Did... did the robot just fondle him? XD

[@TheBreezus]

Yeah.

[@ELBOYOLOCO31]

Skynet is coming!!! OMG

[@sequorroxx]

Technologic...technologic...technologic...technologic.

[@jacksonpalusi4382]

Thiojoe watches your videos tested.com

[@SRollaPilot]

Skynet is coming!

[@Golem-9]

lol elder maxon joke

[@TherealBKM]

This is cool

[@ryanhimmelblau534]

Cool project, but seriously pick one solid color scheme.

[@DavidQuezada7]

hahaha totally agree

[@MrSanwong15]

Just saw that robotic arm reaching his D. LOL

[@zahniblumenthal-macfarlane]

Goodbye Jamie :'(

[@jaxnean2663]

Can it like terminates or something?!

[@PaperDragons]

No disrespect to the work they have done but I would love to see what James Bruton would have done here. #xrobots

[@chumboats]

arriba Guatemala perros!!!!

[@killstreak1597]

Yay open source robot skype

[@juanramonmeza6604]

Viva Guate!!!!

[@NoGrip]

Cool

[@IAMPROJECT45RI]

awsome

[@roehle9962]

this. is scary.

[@Tailslol]

inmoov open robot looked better I think.they should cross inmoov with what they are building.

[@osronn]

SKYNET!

[@percymcglocklan3964]

Telepresence robot assassins it's going to happen.

[@Razyre]

These things always have massive latency. Wonder if there is a way to decrease it.

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

Faster micro controllers and get the motion capture through micro controllers instead of a PC. The PC adds lag at the USB port and in the software. Dedicated hardware will always be faster.

[@jabwaff68]

Real Steel boiz

[@NewInfinityRecursion]

Where is github link xD

[@EduMrTeiks]

Like modern family

[@ye1561]

Age of ultron

[@harryrushton5270]

Om-e-leh

[@lerixen]

Welcome to the end guys... Skynet is nigh...

[@Jarb2104]

Hearing from my country makes me wish unis and government wasn't so shitty here, a lot of people with a lot of free time with little to no funding.

[@slightlyburntbread]

leo?

[@sermuns]

Skynet, anyone?

[@Evanski]

Synths

[@ibleed1]

so so so so sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[@Dontbeweakvato]

norm sounds kinda weird

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Norm IS weird... ;-P

[@fa.h.]

Latency way to high.

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

That is probably because of how they have their PID loops configured. It could also be from slack in the mechanics. Most likely it is from the micro controllers they are using. You can do a lot with Arduinos and some power control circuits, but they do have their limits on polling and response time. There comes a time when you have to move up to PLCs to do things or at least find faster hardware some other way. The motion capture they are doing is ran through the PC, so that is adding latency too. They could look at other means of motion capture like James Bruton is using on his KZbin channel in his Ultron torso robot.

[@fa.h.]

KnightsWithoutATable thats probably the reason. have seen other things that was controlled with a VR headset or a sort of controller you move in 3D space that control a robot or a camera with much less latency. whenever you use a VR headset, you need really low latency to not make a lot of people sick.

[@dshcfh]

If you're lucky you can get used to this kind of latency. Some people throw up at the slightest fps dip and if not throw up anyway, but when I had an Oculus I was running it on a gtx 750, so some of my games hit 25 fps and I just dealt with it. There's also moving the image artificially with the head tracking to compensate for the latency.

[@halfr2306]

87 viewers

[@Trumppower]

junk.. unless it can kill.

[@slawor4]

First?

[@kayotic321]

Please stop being lazy and programming the damn thing to do only what it should be doing. Can't be having a robot making sexual advancements on my wife cause it saw me doing it earlier.

[@TheBreezus]

This was probably a joke, but in the future people are going to be taking that way more serious.

[@wolf432]

1:47 nut tap lol