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Wow congratulations, you are amazing!

we need updates!

Nintendo Powerglove!

AHAHAHAHAHA great vid also you are very funny!

Are you still working on this project?

I actually got to use the robot and the training machine when i was 13 as part of a field trip when our local hospital got one

The most intuitive control I can think of for this is the wii controller. It might be another can of worms trying to decode that thing, but it allows for 3D motion in space and if you can figure out how to translate the robots motion by inverse kinematics, two wii controllers could imitate two robot arms. A and B button to close (hold) and close (trigger), orientation of the wii controller determines it's angle, translation of the controller determines translation. All wii controller accelerations are non linear, to allow for faster movements to cover greater distances virtually then they do physically (similar to mouse acceleration on a computer) and thus, the wii controller is the perfect choice.

Cool bro!

Problem in first test might be that it only charge if it’s in off mode. Mine are like this

I like how you put a video with bunch of jump cuts in mids of your technical explanation to keep our short attention brains engaged

For input you could probably use a switch joycon lol, 3-axis gyro, a trigger and few buttons. You could also use both in conjunction for even more options.

A 3D modeling mouse allowes for control of 12 imput control, or 6 motors.

Hello, I want to build this Da Vinci. I want to help you in making the motors to connect it to the arm. You have an engineer, Nawar Hatheem, from Iraq. Thank you for this special clip.

Hello, I want to build this Da Vinci. I want to help you in making the motors to connect it to the arm. You have an engineer, Nawar Hatheem, from Iraq. Thank you for this special clip.

You channel is dope! Never stop brotha

Really nice find. I now want to build one, but looks like they are not so commonly sold in Europe, and also not that cheap... I'm thinking about using small gimbal motors so we can have force feedback...

You could try a mix of pedals and joy sticks for the controls

could maybe probably use flight sim sticks (hosas) for the controls

sick asf broskee

this emoji groove 👌🤌🤤

I just saw this other guy who is developing a glove for controlling a robot dog or something. Do a Collab hahaha

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A cable-sensed vr glove

I don’t know if someone mention it, but VR hand tracking could do the job for the control

As a Intuitive Engineer this is incredible, you’re really nearby of da Vinci fundamentals! Take a look of remote center of motion, that’s the most important and hard part of robotic assisted surgery

Ohhh man cool! This is like a much more serious video of Michael reeves (he also made like a ridiculous surgery robot)

Hi Bennett. Excellent work. I started down this same path last summer, prototyping a possible exhibit for a California science museum. In the end the exhibit got dropped ... but I'm still very much interested. I've got 3 of the "blue" units here (pincer-type, can't recall exact one) and a similar box of iterative 3D printed mounts. I like your spring-loaded coupling mechanism. Mine simply rides down the grooves and snaps into place, depending on rotating the discs until they seat properly. I'll check out your git repo.

GENIOUS!

Someone else has already taken that arm apart on youtube, I just forgot who.

Was wondering about the salsa..

you are looking for a 3d 5axis pantograph part(1 of 2)

I dont know who is this guy , but he earned a sub in min 8:02 with that incredible plot twist..

Excellent use of Chekhov's Big Jar of Salsa

- Complains cool surgical robot costs 2 million dollars. - Uses crapple products.

Bennett the editing goes crazy

Maybe a Playstation joystick would allow you to control at least two tools at a time. And the learning curve would be smoother for the users

Why not use both your hands and feet to control the movement, let your feet control some of the simpler movements and leave the more complex ones to your hans

"you could buy 10 gallons of almond milk for the same price as I can get one of these". Clearly you have a target audience, and I'm not it.

i love the fact this video is so well done with such a professional feel to it, and then seeing the iphone emojis on otherwise serious text slides

I wonder if a 3D SpaceNavigator would work as a first try as an input device. Its at least good for positioning, but the additional finger position sensing, that's quite a challenge.

Hey Bennett! I’m actually used to be a Manufacturing Engineer for the Core Instruments division of Intuitive! You’ve got the older Si instruments there. Very impressed with your work! There’s a lot that goes into making that “talking” between the robot and instrument happen but you covered the basics great! A little background on the “life count” they actually have to qualify every instrument for a specific number of lives by running new versions through simulated use and do some math to calculate what the max life count would be. All has to be submitted through the FDA and approved for every country we send instruments to! Great Video!!

Make IT brain conteolled

Splendid video. I really appreciate step by step breakdown + build sequence. Learned a lot

Make a gauntlet made with 1 micro proximity sensor in each finger. That is for flex, extension and rotation. For movement you should hold your elbow in a platform with X and Y. With this system, you can do all with one hand.

Why not use OpenCV for control?

They use foot pedals to switch between the different arms.

RIP Bennett

This is gonna suck. Cause now that this is publically avaible knowledge. Now they will try to pass regulations and rule making these insturments no avaible for ebay resale or the like.

Cool! Subscribed!

A bit silly for a control solution but have you checked out VR gloves as a solution? You could try to map the movement of specific fingers and such much like the complicated machine the doctor uses in the video. Though, you'd have to account for the limits of each machine, and I wouldn't really call it a precise solution either. But, it would definitely feel intuitive (if done right)