Best Robot Actuators ever: I reviewed tons of actuators, and decided to make my own.

[@ForrestdWill]

So glad to see you uploading more. I build industrial robots and cnc machines for Lasers, plasma cutters and routers so this channel gives me lots of ideas for side projects

[@Skyentific]

Thank you a lot for such kind comment! It really helps!

[@palebluedot7435]

Hey, not looking for a new job but curious about yours I do field service and programming etc I guess big question is expected pay and need for workers And what programming languages dominate your field

[@sergeyworm1476]

I am very glad that you have developed your own actuator. Please tell us more about the development process, components, mechanical processing of elements, electronics, what difficulties there were and how you overcame them. Good luck with your projects.

[@sergeyworm1476]

@@PiefacePete46 I agree with you. I've been watching this channel for years and I like it. But this particular video made me angry and I couldn't resist commenting. I've changed my comment. Thank you for your constructive criticism.

[@PiefacePete46]

@@sergeyworm1476 : I have just deleted my reply. I intended to delete it when you edited yours, as it no longer made sense.... We had to leave home unexpectedly when an elderly relative became ill. (She's OK now). Cheers.

[@homieboi5352]

Your stuff really is amazing. After all your research in actuators, the fruits of your labor are more visible than ever! Thank you for bridging the gap between DIY makers and the world of industrial robotics, you've made some amazing contributions, but this is in my eyes the most incredible one yet!

[@MichielvanderMeulen]

hope sales go well!

[@PhG1961]

Amazing and very impressive! Well done, great products!

[@Skyentific]

Thank you for the support and for watching my videos!

[@PhG1961]

@@Skyentific I've been following your channel from the early beginning! Fascinating! Continue the good work, too bad I don't have the budget, but your drives are looking very promising.

[@thehornedjester1116]

Good work, well explained👍🏻. Been watching your stuff for years👀. Just commenting to help the algorithm😃.

[@pigi_experiment]

Congratulation for your new business. Your videos are amazing, I learned a lot from you.

[@ДауренМ-ц6м]

Thanks for your videos. I am very happy to see that you start to release your own actuators. Wish you all the best!!

[@zayanh2823]

Congratulations 👍🏽 amazing hardware . I’m definitely purchasing a few !

[@Skyentific]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@ESE.999]

You are a good teacher. I learned a lot from you

[@Skyentific]

Glad to hear that. Thank you!

[@MitchStahara]

Sweet! Looks like an awesome actuator.

[@Skyentific]

Thank you for supporting me!

[@cybersecuritydeclassified4793]

Great job explaining this solution. Very impressive.

[@paulharvey6719]

Yes! I figured you had something amazing in the works ...😎

[@Skyentific]

Yes!

[@ha13151]

Good job! Congratulations!

[@themost1667]

Thank you ( i comment before watching video )😊

[@Skyentific]

Thank you a lot!

[@Otakutaru]

Can't wait to see some a robot powered by this puppies. Quite small too!

[@jdsalmonson]

This is great! I'm curious if the harmonic or quasi-direct drive component will be replaceable or repairable or open-sourced? I can easily imagine building a project with these actuators and inadvertently exceeding the recommended torque and bunging up the drive. If I fry the moteus board, I can imagine replacing that, say, but if the drive fails, can I replace it or do I have to replace the entire (not cheap) actuator? I guess I'm anticipating a market opportunity for your hobby/professional actuators: be more modular and fixable (less black box) than the next guy. That hands-on interactivity has always been your brand. Cheers!

[@junz.4779]

Amazing stuff.

[@Skyentific]

Thank you a lot!

[@MrAshadams]

Well done sky!

[@raymondpotgieterjhb]

Well done. I have been following you for a very long time since you started out. The actuators are great. I would like to buy unfortunately where I stay our currency is 18:1 so $1000 is too expensive for us. Keep up the good work and when you are very successful then you can donate one or two actuators 😊 Love your work.

[@randomsub6043]

Is there review on Unitree actuators, they are better performance than RMD.

[@Han_Solo_4]

Also saw this motor on the new unitree robot, it has super high torque and good rpm

[@Han_Solo_4]

The B1

[@Skyentific]

I don't have them, and I don't even have the manual for them. If you have the manual/protocol description, I would be interested!

[@yigityildirim8974]

Can you review the Unitree B1 actuator? It has 140Nm torque and weights 1740g, how is that possible?

[@pureuplift5999]

Want to buy this one, those are good numbers

[@pureuplift5999]

Everyone will buy that soon

[@Skyentific]

I think it is 140Nm peak torque, not the rated torque.

[@zakqwy]

Congrats on launching a store and selling actuators!

[@KanatbekMur-wo2pd]

Very interesting

[@Skyentific]

Thank you a lot!

[@klicker0]

Do any of the new servos have built in braking mechanisms? So when shut down they are safely locked from rotation. I wish there was more details on the details of these actuators, like is there torque sensing? Built in trajectory handling? Temperature sensing? Load/AMP sensing? What API features are there? It seems like such limited information for $1000 servo/actuators.

[@chadx8269]

Nice work, but can you design ones that have a hollow shaft to pass wires through.

[@not_brainiac]

You should consider relasing the quasi-direct drive actuators planetary gear box as a separate product so people can use it with other motors.

[@jp00738]

beautiful!!!!

[@aaronmartinezromero]

nice!!

[@Skyentific]

Thanks!!

[@Simon_Rafferty]

I've gone through a similar evolution. Too many of the drivers are dreadful even when the motor hardware is good. In my case I've ended up using a VESC to control the motor with a magnetic position encoder - similar to all the Chinese (and American) drivers. The difference however is the PC Software to set it up (the VESCTool) which is amazing! It has a beautiful UI with auto-tuning for PIDs and a host of other features never found on other controllers such as being able to run using an RC Servo input. Best of all, you don't need Linux or Python! VESC just makes everything easy - without any loss of functionality. It's also open source.

[@zebedie2]

It looks like your using moteus or at least a compatible commands CAN with it and CAN-FD which is nice. One thing you might want to look into is optional support for use with the duet control boards as they also have CAN-FD outputs but I'm guessing the protocol they use might be different

[@jamieclarke321]

How do we actually get the software together where we can build a robot that can be trained with a teach pendant or Cobot style where we can move it around to program it? Actuators and 3d printed parts are all well and good but without the software to build actual useful industrial automation machines these just end up as toys and novelties for the vast majority of people

[@renanmonteirobarbosa8129]

What do you think about the BEAR actuators ? Also, In your opinion what is necessary for a economy of scale so robotics can be more accessible ? Your actuators look really nice, must be a heft cost in machining.

[@DaniElectron]

🤖🤖🤖Amazing! 🤖🤖🤖

[@Skyentific]

Thank you a lot!

[@andrewbednar7251]

I want to see a 6DoF robot arm built with these. When do you think you'll be taking that build on?!

[@justinbeck9764]

I'm curious what your thoughts are on using the Moteus controller boards; I know from back in the day you reviewed the different options; could you share how you landed on Moteus controllers. if there are still tradeoffs with that choice. I would love to hear some of your thoughts, if you covered this in a previous video please just link it to me I don't mean to have you need to repeat yourself.

[@ThePantygun]

Do them PnP in 3 or 4 sizes, like those plastic pipeline connectors.

[@Skyentific]

I developing it right now. I almost finalised the design. So it will be available soon! :)

[@Simon_Rafferty]

I wish Skyentific the best with these, however, they are fairly expensive for most hobby projects. Anyone who wants a lower cost option, for some applications, it's worth looking at e-bike direct drive hub motors. A typical 250W motor will deliver 20 to 40Nm Torque. A 1kW motor 60-80Nm. They require some inventiveness to add a magnetic encoder. Control with a VESC and you can achieve accurate positional control. I have a cheapo, second hand 750W hub motor motor which delivers 40Nm and will run up to 400rpm. They are not as efficient at low speed compared to geared motors - but IMHO, the performance envelope is better than any of the actuators I've tested. Not suitable for every application - but ideal for some!

[@PiefacePete46]

Interesting! As with steppers, the more time passes, the greater the number of choices that will be available at manageable prices. I see people finding use for scrapped "Hoverboard" motors as well. I was fortunate to score a great selection of steppers, from NEMA 23 down. They came from high-end copying machines with big document collating trays.

[@ThePerseus32]

Please, you can make rewiev for the Steadywin actuators? This is small (hobby) cheap actuators from China. Im long time interested by robotic, but till this time I not found correct actuators. Before I made 3d Printed robot arm ( with stepper motor) but it was noise. Thank you

[@EduGuti9000]

Great job! Are those actuators compatible with your latest robot arm design? Are you considering making a commercial robot arm? I love those actuators, but the price is high for me; I'm sure it's a fair price, but I'm not rich. :-) Are there any discounts for buying several, or special offers for Black Friday or Christmas?

[@VideoStefan17]

a comment! *i am still here, liking and comenting ;)

[@lasersbee]

"Not very high price"..... at $1000 to $1500 per actuator that is not inexpensive. I suppose it depends on what Multi Thousand dollar machine you use them on....

[@PiefacePete46]

Typically the market dictates price. Usually similar products of equivalent quality and availability set pricing limits.

[@sergiolescano9288]

good!!!!

[@sirexodius632]

^0^ amazing

[@planckstudios]

These are competitive with the market at ~$1000 each? I can understand paying for an ecosystem and your vision of the future, but until you compare them side by side with commercially available options, I'm highly skeptical they're a value for your audience

[@MegaTraxxas]

So can you tell what are other options?

[@docdailey]

Do you have stl files for your mounts?

[@sammflynn6751]

damn, wish u posted bout this earlier :(

[@samjall]

This is still very complicated process and needs to be simplified. Moving the actuator from point A to point B needs to be a simpler process .. hope somebody will come up with a simpler way

[@maxekb77]

Ну как не послушать прекрасный русский акцент - главное что даже без перевода понятно все 😊

[@ransombot]

Minimum wage is about 7.25 in my country.. making the monthly income around 1200 or so. A project using several of those motors and supplies would be more than people make in a year. Seems a bit out of touch to call them cheep. Wish you luck but I cant afford to be interested in something that expensive, I don't see any open source projects or community driven things to keep me around on your website so. Again good luck.

[@RustyleSuper]

ничего себе как выросли до продажи брендовых движков. как получить один в рф для теста?

[@Jnijst]

You mention that some 'Big' companies have changed their software and not always for the better. Any chance you might give a slight indication to us poor robotists ? who cannot afford your splendid actuators, as to which of these companies to avoid, because of poor backup, poor performance, or poor support... or whatever I avoid companies where the 'download' does not even work, but... You would help us avoid costly mistakes in buying actuators, that become not more than an expensive paperweight. Kind regards, Jules.

[@makmelni]

Почему мне кажется что у автора русский акцент... особенно после: уан, ту, сри 😅

[@user-www.al35]

Почему у вас нет видео на русском?

[@GENERALCHAOS13]

its funny that i Just got a 2016 Nvidia Drive PX2 and they Said it can be repurpose for other Projects i remembered Iron Man Robot Name Dum-E and you Popped up in my Feed LOL here the Kicker i Paid $20 USD and Powers on Bad News Im still Novice Im not or have in Tier 6 DIY & Tools im in Tier 3 with Tier 1 Tools you in other hand your Maxed Tier 6 DIY & Tools