Finally, the kinda affordable 7DoF robot arm (Amber B1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Finally, the affordable 7 axis (better than 6axis!) robotic arm is here! Amber Bionic 1 has really impressive performance. It has the payload of 3kg and the precision of less than 0.5mm. And all this with very affordable price!
The link to the KickStarter campaign: bit.ly/3tvuYTc
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To clarify: When I say affordable price I meant the super early and early adopters (2k - 3k USD). The 4k USD is correct price (I would not call it affordable). Unfortunately super early and early price is not available anymore. The 14k USD is definitely too much for this arm.
Yes, $14K is too much for Amber M1, given that XArm 6 is $8K with larger payload, reach and better mechanics.
Did I miss the part where you said what you were paid for this video?
Is the usual arrangement where they let you keep the review unit but don't pay money?
I think this is important information. You are usually very good at mentioning this so it's odd when I don't hear it.
This might be affordable at early prices but it's KickStarter and many KickStarter project do not end well. I wish you had reminded people of this. An earlier robot arm you demonstrated from a KickStarter project had major financial problems. Fortunately the earlier campaign was ended before people lost their money.
I really think you should be more proactive and warn viewers about KickStarter problems.
14k you meant 4k right? But now only double packs are available any more :/ a 3 or 5 axis version would be nice
@@fisch747 they say that the market price (after the arm is released) will be $14K. The $4K is an early bird reward, which is reasonable.
@@ivankrasin2399 what about the uArm? do you know if it is any good?
This is incredible. Somehow you mastered to make yourself the number one robot arm reviewer on TH-cam and now you get plenty of nice robot arms for review all the time! :-D
Ya he is
Завидуй молча:)
Yeah..
Finally the kind of video I was hopping for this channel 😍
This is great news! I want this arm now, and thanks for another awesome video.
always cool to see what can be accomplished when you put your mind to it. Im working for KUKA myself and I got to say im pretty amazed by this Robot arm.
love the doctor octopus shades, they're kind of fitting for this video now that I think about it
Looking good!
It will take me me some time to finish my 6 axis - it moved the first time last week. Video will follow :)
looking forward to seeing more of your videos, Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for comment, and for watching!
Wow, I have now paused the video 10 seconds in to give a thumbs up, and leave a comment.
First seeing the awesome movements of the arm, and then you top it of with those sunglasses! You have out done your self! :D
So cool, amazing work
The sound of the arm moving is something apart! Great video!
Perhaps the most underrated channel on TH-cam...
Completely agree! :)))
Stick a laser pointer on the end and project to a far wall to check for accuracy.
Great idea! I need to find a bigger room for this! :)
Amber robotics just announced a new small and more affordable arm: Lucid ONE, Zero-Code & AI Planning 7DOF Portable robotic arm
Awesome!!! Now I want one for myself!!!! 😁
Amazing Robotic arm
Super cool to see this arm. I don't have the funds for the arm, but I could've bought the super early bird. Sadly I was too late and it's all sold out now (there were only 5 arms). I hope these arms become more affordable in the future.
Awesome, I want one!
they call me syknetic, i call them ander robotics. nice vid!
:))))))
@@Skyentific syknetic + skyentific ~= skynet ?
Great Video
This is so cool
This channel is going to be great in the future..
Incredible!
your videos are the coolest, and looking quite "cool" yourself ready to take on the med. ok let's talk about the coolest thing in this video besides yourself this robot is fantastic. backdrivable, no backlash, great dimensional range, encoded actuators, LED cleverness ... just professional attention to detail. bravo!
wow a lot has changed since this video on their product lineup page, kinda seems like these servos / actuators should be industry standard
I managed to get one of the super early birds. I have been refreshing the page every 2 seconds for 15 minutes before the launch time.
I witnessed it to go from 5 units available to 2 when I finished making my pledge to 0 in the next refresh. Thanks for letting us know about this robot arm!
smart a$$ :D
have you received your unit yet?
@@TheAdventureLog not yet, but I think they were planning to start shipping on October 2021
Did you ever get it? @@MarcSallent
Cool little arm !! When do you make a demo with the inverse kinematic ?? on 7 DOF would be very cool !
could be interesting for table top videography where the total distance of motion is not too great. Couple this with a rotating table or a translating table and you can do some very cool effects for small items such as perfume bottles.
Awesome !
I like the esthetics of this robot arm, the wooden lookalike detail on it gives it a bit more natural look and I love that, I also love how smooth this thing operates.
Another thing I really like is that the robot arm doesn't have a lot of extra structural mass but that it is almost only made of the actuators, that's pretty nifty.
The only thing I don't like is that I don't have any purpose for the robot arm and I can't think of anything that this would be useful for other than having it as an eyecatcher and I would call it Jarvis and use it to do some funny stuff like Jarvis in the movie Ironman, I like the scene when he's testing the suit for flying and he then crashes and Jarvis then comes with the fire extinguisher right in his face when the action is already over... That would be something cool for this robot arm to have it as a helping hand like Jarvis in Ironman.
Man you got to love the Ethernet.
This robot arm sound like a the Alien… awesome!
You remind me of Mehdi of ElectroBOOM. Knowledgeable, clearly explain things, and very fun to listen to
Amazing😍😍
if u trust enough do the hand knife jump! if i owned it id def try it. it looks preetyyy dang cool
COOL!!!
Hi! Thanks for the video! I'm wondering if I should back the proyect. I'm trying to find information about the company but I can't find much. Seems only super optimistic articles are there. And I just found about the other robot model you also reviewed, the INNFOS GLUON one, and I don't know how to prove that the Amber company is going to end all good. I hope you can give us some ligth about it.
You need a mode where you teach it points you move it to, and it figures out the most efficient path. It would be a lot better than a literal playback of your movements.
Agree!!!
very nice...
Great review, thanks man.
Unfortunately they are doing a kickstarter campaign, which does not protect us if the company decides to take the money and not deliver anything (just like many, including mix hmd and vrgluv).
I would rather deal with legit businesses.
It's not looking very promising at the moment - last update on KS, 5 months ago, but still no deliveries.
They shipped, thankfully! Production model is a little neater in the wiring department. Still testing to see if it works as advertised but hats off for managing to deliver something in the middle of a pandemic and supply chain crisis.
Thanks for that. Will you have the opportunity to make some more content with this arm, or is it going straight back?
If it's going back, can you please ask them to send it to me. I'm ready to pay 999 US$ for that used-one. Also we can trade, I would give them a few licences of professional simulation software for this robot. I'm sure they can sell it easy with this robotic arm.
That was some nice noicese.
The video is just published and some people already put dislikes! Please LIKE this video. Let show to the TH-cam that we want more robot videos!
just ignore them, you put out great videos!
@@danialothman unfortunately youtube algorithm does not ignore them. :). That is why I asking other people to put likes :)
You're my favorite robot guy :) and I think your like to dislike ratio (rt now this vid is 2% dislike to 98% like) is better than most every video on youtube. That said, I can see why people would be annoyed to watch the vid and follow the links only to find out 'affordable' is $4000 since all the early bird options are gone. This arm is pretty and looks to perform great, but I wouldn't call it affordable.
Paradoxically, dislikes are viewed positively by the algorithm.
whenever i read "affordable" i have this "gosh, this is 3-4k for sure" pricetag in my head. it should say affordable for educational institutions and small enterprise.
This is excellent but I think we need to ask ourselves if so much precision is really needed, as it drives up costs exponentially. For many automation tasks like boxing products or even drawing or cooking, sub-millimeter repeatability is overkill.
Completely agree!!!
Hi Bud.. love your channel. was wondering if you would know of any cad cam software for plasma cutting robots? open source preferable or actual affordable !! 🙂
Thats a nice one. In some years it will be affordable like a 3d printer hopefully
I am sure it will! The prices drops all the time.
I'm sure the price will not drop down because the main components of industrial class robotic arm (servo motor and harmonic drive reducers) have the same price for years. They lowered the price a little because they have their own servo motors designed/manufactured. Also, as we can see here, the real price of this robotic arm will be about US$ 15,000, which is near the price we use to have for small size (payload) industrial robots.
Forgot to say that in addition to this 15,000 US$, you have to pay min. 3,000 US$ for a good offline programming simulation software if you want to do some serious work with these robotic arms. Software which comes with this robot is just for playing around (move joints blindly w/o inverse kinematics calculus and w/o trajectory planning). Sadly, but I met some engineers who broke down 7-dof Mitsubishi robot arm (worth about 100,000 US$) in the same way by jogging the robot joints up and down ( and they did not want to buy simulation and control software from Mitsubishi, but they just used SDK to connect to the robot and send joint angles). Someone will say the robot has a "learning" function to record a positions, but to be honest, I think that feature can't be used for precise trajectory planning nor for any serious tasks.
Is there an STL of the orange plastic piece for the base of the arm available ? Also, what are the dimensions of the alluminium extrusion used to build the base please ?
COOLest🤩
i have multiple harmonic drives from a universal robot with a reductionratio of 100 they are also easily backdriveable
When you put the 500g payload on the arm next to the video with no payload they both moved at the exact same time when the load was placed
Could you make an overly complicated walnut peeler? Llike cut the hull at the equator and then cut 1/4 of the sphere hull away one by one with a robot arm.
Thanks for review. I think this device can be used to control movie camera to fuse real and virtual video or make other effects, or even to clone "handwriting" on letters
BTW: your accent is to similar to mine, are you from Russia ?
your videos are great, I am building a robot myself and trying to figure out the stepper driver to use. Can you please recommend me something for NEMA 23 stepper motors? I have decided to use tmc2209 for NEMA 17,11, and 8 but I am not able to find a TMC5160 driver for NEMA 23. Are the drivers on stepperonline website like the DM332T as good as the TMC drivers?
Cool toy!!!! 🙃
I wanna one, just to play with it!
How about your startup? Has that progressed at all? Looking forward to seeing your version of an affordable robot arm.
u;Dnb's.vrAn!
One robotic thumb up!
Still far above my budget, but it would be so cool to mount a FDM nozzle and extruder onto it! It would give so many options e.g. non-planar printing, curved crosshatching layers and prints with isotropic mechanical properties.
You can already do some of those things (non-planar esp.) with a standard flatbed. You need some custom software though. Plenty of vids about it around.
No, this has 0 rigidity, it would be really terrible for FDM. There is no way it even has close to 3mm repeatability under load
Or what about automatic tape-laying, for carbon fiber composite structures?
Can you make some videos on how to use CANBUS library to control motor.
I really like your videos, but you really need to get equipment to check things like backlash and repeatability.
Also really looking forward to more of your own builds. Cheers!
Around 1992 I worked at a robotics company in an office where they did programming, testing, and assembly of custom configurations. The larger robots could move semi truck engine blocks around.
During development, they did a lot of testing using a ball point pen as the end effector. They would tape papers to surfaces in the workspace. The robot would be programmed to draw straight lines on the papers. It would draw the lines again, but with the joints in different positions and with the pen moving in different directions. You could easily tell if something was wrong because the lines wouldn't perfectly overlap.
Those robots had good enough force feedback that they could use a standard ballpoint pen rigidly attached to the end of the arm. No springs required.
A ten cent Bic pen is fine for initial calibration and sanity testing. You get out the precision measurement equipment after it demonstrates repeatability with the pen.
@@hamjudo oh right, I actually ended up doing exactly this when I was trying to come up with a mechanism to generate a walking gait for robocon, a robotics competition specific to Asia. Yes it's great for repeatability but I mean it doesn't hurt to have a dial indicator lying around. It will make itself useful sooner than later because all of us know sky has a lot of great designs that could use fine tuning.
Well he used neither method in the video, but then again it's just a simple review of an arm. To each his own I guess.
P.S- thanks for reminding me about this method!
@@hamjudo thanks for the tip
I don't trust kickstarter anymore, even with a finished product. To many scams
i wonder what is better approach - get used industrial robo or go for one of the new ones?
I'm not sure This Old Tony would approve of your precision measurement @ 8:14 :) Anyway, cool robotic arm.
That is actually a bargain compared to others on the market. Do you get to keep it, or must you send it back?
I watched the video very carefully ... in 7:35 when going back to vertical position there are skipped frames or alot of movement, so in 8:02, further more every time the arm reaches the vertical position the video changes ... except from 15:48 where the arm starts moving to the left slowly before video changes again. Something seems wrong with the arm reaching the vertical-initial position unless everything is a coincidence ... tell as why this happens master ...
I think he explains why at at 11:28
@@brianserrano1134 I don't think those were cases of switching the arm off ... at least they didn't lool like these to me ... besides it looks in 15:48 as if the arm is tilting to the left .
Bazilio cat made presentation wood robot arm ) Wery cool!
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Looks as if the actuator shaft collar is eccentric which is unexpected for the price tag!
It is clear that the harmonic gearbox has less backlash than a planetary gearbox, but soes it have the same durability? My concern comes from the fact that it depends of deformation to work.
Good question. Univeral Robotics (UR robots) use also harmonic drive, and it is extremely durable. So I suppose, it should not be a problem.
the robot man has gone hollywood
Wow i'm super early ^^
At 4kUSD for 7 HD integrated actuators alone, the price is amazing! Almost too good to be true. We'll wait and see how this campaign delivers.
Thats the thing. Let us see if they deliver. This kind of deals are too good to be true, especially on kickstarter.
@@Sadashi My main worry with this also.
omg the beginning of the video looked like something else for a sec.
Your last kickstarter robot arm didn't pan through, how will this one turn out?
I see the vid two times . Good vid. I miss technical dates and the possibility of programming it with tools. Also you can measure the current of any Motor but you don’t use the Resultate of force to control anything of the movement. I miss the demonstration how to fix a work tool at the end of the arm. When will you make new vids from this perfect arm B1?
I am working on another video with this arm. In which I am developing the gripper for this arm. I know that I have not explain all the details of this robot arm, I will do this as much as I can.
This would be a amazing investment for gas stations to make self fuel pumps just think pulling up to a gas station and just useing your phone to pay for your gas and than just drive away
I want it
This looks suspiciously like the INNFOS Gluon which was cancelled by Kickstarter, especially the all-in-one motor design. I wonder if these guys are related. Looks pretty awesome though if it's legit.
On what computer runs the screen? And what screen is it? Thanks!
Now all you need is to fit all of the power sources onto a backpack, and add three more arms.
This thing this very similar with INNFOS gluon robot arm. Actually I've heard some rumors about INNFOS. The developers left that company for some reason.I think this product its created by those developers.
This could be the case. I don’t know exactly.
So it's on kickstarter for $3999. Think this is doable for this price with production cost and shipping and all the hazzle that comes with running a company? Or is the price too low?
Hello sir, How can I buy that Actuator?
How fast can acting this robot with maximum load?
15 косарей все-же дорого. ((
Я все жду когда у вас на обзоре появится что-нибудь действительно доступное с грузоподбемность в те же 3-4 кг. Было бы очень круто.
Кстати, а что насчет гидравлики?
Maybe I missed it, but what was the gear ratio of the harmonic drives?
Between 30 and 50, depends on axis.
@@Skyentific I'm surprised they are still back drivable at that ratio, that's impressive.
Yes, but this is because these reducers have a good efficiency. In my previous video, I have tested harmonic drive actuator with reduction ratio 100. And it is back drivable. But not easily back drivable.
Cool where did you buy this?
Kickstarter.
How is it automated using what?hand guided
Could you please talk about real world application?
will it be possible to buy these actuators separately?? And if possible, at what price?
Great question. I suppose yes, as the company put the specs on their web site for entire line of actuators. But I have no idea about price.
Is it ready to sell. Your website is not showing the price 😥
Why did they choose a harmonic drive? Wouldn't a planetary gear be stronger?
Also, how does this one compare to your own robots?
I think, they choose harmonic drive, just because there are out of the shelf lightweight, compact and powerful harmonic reducer. I don’t know any out of the shelf planetary reducer with such parameters.
what's the price of the actuator?
The price is really low for the arm with strain wave reducers. Probably because high precision machining is not required for such low reduction ratio. I' ve always wanted to create strain wave reducers for my robots myself using my 4-axis CNC, and it seems to be more than possible.
Why do you think easily backdrivable actuator is an advantage? It makes arm fall down and crash itself on power off or some error. They should have put electromagnetic brake into the actuators to prevent this.
You DO need precision machining if you need a precise device. Otherwise it will either bind up or have backlash.
It's not just the dimensions, but the materials. It has to take the load and still be flexible after millions of turns
Use a dial guage to measure repeatability
What is backdriveable?
So, what is the "low, low price"?
Please try to put a camera on the arm to see if it can make a stable video. Such arms are used to make high quality product videos, but are 10x more expensive.
Innfos Gluon was introduced as such too. Then it turned out to be a scam. So I will hold off for now.
Please tell me why you call it scam?! All backers got their money back. The Innfos told kickstarter that they have problems, and they canceled everything.
I wish one day there will have a cheap 7 axis arm which can lift a human for VR Arcade.
where is possible to buy this Arm?