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Really cool that you're getting into ROS to bring your robotics projects to the next level. Learning ROS was tough but has allowed me to do some things I never thought I'd be able to with my projects; definitely worth the effort to learn

Burglar: *breaks into Jame's home & sees 100 robots roaming around that suddenly stop and lock on him* ... "Shit"

This is a really cool project! Before watching the video I was disappointed because it wasn't an OpenDog video, but having watched it now I am equally interested in how this robot will develop! Keep up the great and inspiring work!

Fantastic project! Really looking forward to seeing this one come together as you develop further.

I think I've just found my favourite channel of all time. Patron you say? Here i come

The scanning unit reminds me of the terminator entering the bar back in the days

When James finally makes his robot girlfriend, she is going to be pretty substantial and firm ;D

definitely worth the wait.. brilliant stuff

I don't know what to say, I am just pumped to see your videos. You are summing up months of process in one video and I always pause and ponder about how you have made a particular design choice. You would have faced so many errors. It will be fascinating if you can compile a video on error or design problems that you have encountered and how and why you arrived at a particular solution.

"There's a thing that goes on this stick we will discuss later." Reminds me of my dad when I was 12.

James, we need to address the robotic elephant in the room. The mandatory 80s robot naming convention. Really Useful AI Robot? R.U.A.R? We can do better. Since it goes with R.O.S, might I suggest the Functional Roaming AI Sidekick Interactive Everyday Robot. Or F.R.A.S.I.E.R But seriously, this looks awesome. I can definitely see future videos where you're working on projects with FRASIER assisting.

i like the white and blue color. this very pure and good looking.

This looks very nice.

I like the way you utilised 3D printing along your projects

I have gotta say. this is the first robot that I am going to just stop doing work to start copying. Incredibly cool

I have made a similar robot platform based on turtlebot3 but a little more powerful. The base is hand folded and cold welded HDPE sheet. I've tried making it as neat as possible but I really do wish I had a 3d printer.😅 Anyways, good job James!

14:39 "Can you bring me my laptop please?" *rips the monitor off your desk and hands it to you*

Love to see a docking station and self charging for for this

Amazing job, thank you. I'm so looking forward to see how you can get ROS navigation running smoothly on this one. I also just joined your KZfaq membership group :)

James is so comfy with 3D printing he might just go and 3D print a whole car like it's no big deal

You are an inspiration my friend. Keep doing awesome things!

You could put the camera on the arm. It could move up and down to get a better view of the thing you want to pick up.

Your design work is really improving. Excellent work on the exterior.

Awesome video, and very excited to see what brains you've used for this fantastic project. The Xavier is an incredible price of kit. It's significantly more powerful than the PCs I used to build as a kid, and all in something with a footprint not much bigger than a Credit Card. Mind blowing! Very excited to see this develop.

I am so happy you started using ROS

"Hey really useful robot get me a beer" RUR: "Hold my beer... "

Robot: "What is my purpose?" James: "You pass the butter" Robot: "Oh My God !"

Looking good....waiting for future episodes...

An option for the long camera cable is a second board at the top feeding the video by wifi/bluetooth to the Jetson.

Very clever design.

You should make a dock for it so it can charge automatically like a robot vacuum!

Seems a lot like the Savioke robots, which are also 3D printed I believe (or were at some point). Exciting stuff as always, looking forward to the next part!

Its been a while since I kept up with your projects as a casual enjoyer. This appears to be very purposeful and well thought out. I wonder how long the planning stage is for all of this, but in the videos its like he came up with an idea on a whim and suddenly he's half done already.

James should build a starwars B1 Battle Droid some time down the line, of all people i could see him printing up a working unit in month.

i've seen similar robot base with uv lights mounted on top, used for sanitizing indoor environment. can't wait to see another part. good job sir :)

This looks so nice

Substantial!

Hey, I'm loving this more gnc focused content. You might be interested in checking out MIT Kimera software. From what I understand it's an open source system. It does localization and mapping as well as object determination for the generated map. I don't know a lot about it but it might be useful for you.

this is really cool, but I find it funny that that tiny computer is more powerful than my brand new laptop

Would really love to see a video of how you carry our your design and prototype process. You create some really expensive robots and I'd like to see how you reduce wastage and create good designs

I was going to comment and suggest that the arm moves up and down.. But watching the video shows you planned just that! Consider a stepper or similar in the base and lifting/lowering the arm using a belt running up to the top and back down. It'll reduse the amount of weight you can pick up(And will 'fall' if power fails) but will allow for quite quick lifting/lowering as well as keep the mass at the top quite low when the arm(s) are in the lower position. We've had problems with casters like that causing problems when you go from forward to reverse as the casters 'flip' around and cause a jolt, but your designs are always flexible and modular enough that if this is a problem you can fix it.

This man gonna make the next SCP

6:00 suddenly, haircut.

This AWESOME! James I think you just levelled up!

Looks cool

Another nice project James! I've started printing the wheels first - can you tell me which bearings you used and which screws you use to join the plastic plates to the base - I guess self tapping screws, but what size / length do you recommend?

You're truly a motivation. Thank you for the videos James.

You can reduce print times and support material if you use 'gradual support infil steps' (what it's called in Cura).

I think we need to address that at @14:35 The camera figured out that James is an airplane. It's on to you James

I’m surprised I haven’t seen any one in the comments comparing this to R2 D2

Beautiful work man!

Looks superb!

For practical task robots, you should have mentioned all your breakfast cooking projects. Just starting to watch... I hope you can tell it to "pass the butter".

...so perfect opportunity to make monitor face if this will have one, to be Wilson from Cast Away :D

Good job!!

James new to your channel this was a really cool project. I can't wait to see future builds. Great video!

Dude you are awesome

Hey, if you are looking for an arm, checkout the open source "Dexter" from Haddington Dynamics.

You should build a robot pool cleaner that is actually good

imagine if this was a commercial product u could buy. i would buy one

Imagine disliking such an interesting entertaining video

Fantastic

Very interesting project.

Looks awesome! :)

Looks REALLY cool! And the nVidia magic is really interesting. I will buy one just to play with - VERY interested what you will come up with...

i love it

Fantastic project !!!!!!

Quite interested to see what you consider are "Useful tasks"

Is that ooznest extrusion? Good stuff.

If I want to scale this robot down a bit, what would be the best way to do it? I would need to scale it down to 300mm in diameter. Would that leave enough space to mount all the electronics? Would 300mm diameter be too small for this robot? I realize I would have to make some changes to accommodate different motors and electronics.

We should be scared of james because he will create skynet

This is holy amazing

Run HTOP to see how busy the processor is running.

Excellent

James you should build a C3PO.....

Right let's get started..... OK Angus lol

Does this need a downward facing sensor on the front to keep itself from driving down stairs? Those little time of flight light sensors would be great for that

Awesome

*Pity the poor robot who first becomes self aware. ( south Florida )*

If i'd had the money, I would build these things every fucking day.

I was watching "runaway " last week. I miss the 80s aesthetic of tracks ABC big bulky frames

How does the wheel pulley attach to the wheel? I printed both, but there's no mounting hole(s), and the pulley just rotates around the wheel. Did you use glue?

consider simple walking robot with gyro mass disc

I swear, this guy is about 10 years away from replicating Aperture Science.

What would be really cool is if you eventually applied this AI to some of your StarWars droids. Maybe as a follow me mode or even more. :)

Are you ever going to add a gripper?

3:22 James has 3D printed a toilet seat at last. Come on guys, all you knew he was going to do It eventually.

it would be great if u teach us how to build the ai

First, very cool project👍 Perhaps I'm missing the point but why not stream all of the data to a server / pc and do all the calculations there. This robot isn't going to go very fast and your house is a controlled environment which means getting good wife reception shouldn't be a problem. This could improve the available processing power, reduce the power consumption of the bot and makes development faster/easier as you don't have to jump between the robot and your development machine. This could also lower the costs making it cheaper for other people to build it as well.

Thats fucking awesome

What's the part number of that relay you used to switch the 24V battery?

Hi James, your projects are amazing. Could you tell us the printer settings that you usually print your parts, like nozzle diameter, layer height, printing velocity and extrusion width? Thanks.

brilliant!

I hope you know hello robot´s stretch, it's a great manipulator and I hope you are going to build somethind similar to your robot.

What software did you use to design it? It looks nice

You know, James… I absolutely love your robot stuff to bits. Really great stuff. But VR is gaining quite a bit of notice right now. (Especially social VR experiences like VRChat.) And I bet that VR is extremely compatible with machine learning and image recognition. The problem, is that VR, and even full body tracking, is a bit expensive. How do you feel about slapping together a quick miracle of engineering for cheap, that people can use with existing VR software? I'm only half joking. VR really is gaining interest. People might be interested in VR related content, even if it doesn't solve a problem. Maybe you could even turn a schematic for one of your robots into an avatar that you could either sell or give away for free advertising. Just throwing the idea out there… If this grabs your interest really hard, but you're worried about lack of skills in avatar rigging and lack of time to learn, you could probably pretty easily find an existing artist to give your robot some spit and polish with speech sound animations and emotes.

Wheels, has an arm that can reach the table.... You are building 'Dummy'! :D

If this robot could detect when the washing machine has finished, unload it, hang the washing on the line, bring it un when it's dry, fold the clothes and put them away, THEN I'd class it as 'really useful'...

In the future can you attempt to make a robot or something similar, like atom from real steel