So, besides little cars and stuff like that, I was never able to really make use of them until recently-ish that I got a 3D printer and learned CAD, so it was time to categorize them.

I built a humanoid robotic arm for my latest YouTube video but nothing went according to plan. I went through my whole design process, assembly and more demos. Luckily I was able to get some nice shots of the arm in action before it broke. Here I’m using these super nice harmonic actuators and 3D printed all the parts. Stay tuned for next gen and integration with ROS!

Took almost 4 months to complete this robotic hand. The hand uses 16 N20 motors with encoders. It has 16 active DOF, each finger has 3 with thumb having 4. There are additional 5 passive DOF with each finger having 1. Since many parts are so small, 3d printing was not possible , I had to mill those using alluminium myself. Few complex alluminium parts I ordered using JLCCNC service. Hopefully I should be able to code basic movements soon and then I will try some reinforcement learning techniques etc. The size of hand is almost 1.5 times of myne. I should be able to reduce the size by 10-15%. But i am planning to replace them with smaller bldc motors and redesign, if everything works out well.

Im constantly reading fear-mongering posts about how AI will steal our jobs etc. But what about our capacity to adapt? We are not our jobs, we are not our systems, we are not even our thoughts... We are creatures able to change and live new adventures. If everything ends, we will create something new, something better.

AI will remind us that and it will give us the chance to build a new world.

Whenever I think about AI's effects on society, the whole things just looks so depressing. I feel like the following scenarios are plausible:

• AI will turn out to be less capable than hyped, it'll get stuck somewhere near the current level, basically nothing happens
• Unaligned superintelligence will kill us all
• Aligned (that is to the interests of billionaires) superintelligence is created and:
  • AI will take all the well-paying intellectual jobs, everyone will be working 3 shifts in the mines for minimum wage
  • AI will take ALL the jobs, everyone get to experience hopeless eternal poverty
  • Billionaires decide they don't really need us around so aligned superintelligence will kill us all

I have a friend who is a successful startup owner. Let's call him Ben. He's a genius -- the guy can pick up any skill in no time. Ben has a CS background, so he's familiar with development and he also has a strong foundation in AI fundamentals. Ben told me that based on his gen AI use, the demand of devs will decrease because of the efficiency gains. This led to a discussion between us about AI's impact on jobs.

According to Ben, AI will automate most of the jobs in the next few years and this includes both office jobs and physical jobs (except doctors even though they would also rely on AI for a lot of stuff). He believes that the following things will happen:

1- Humans will struggle with massive unemployment for the next few years.
2- At some point, AI would evolve to such an extent that robots for everything would be available for cheap. So companies will use these robots to do most stuff.
3- Humans will work 3-4 hours per day.
4- Humans will earn less money. They would also need less money because if the entire supply chain relies on robots and AI, then the cost to build products and services will also reduce significantly.
5- Robots will be available to common people too and it would allow them to do most of their chores.

What do you think of his observations? I think he's too optimistic about robots and AI making our lives better in the long run.

1. It's crazy amazing good

2. It's absolute garbage

Checked the website and it has pricing plan of $40 starter and $200 for pro. Just seeing if anyone has used it cause I don’t see any recent comparisons of benchmarks.

full video: https://youtu.be/477QG21PAys?si=yQRtfvW8X-yyEz3X

https://www.khi.co.jp/expo2025/en

https://www.khi.co.jp/expo2025/concept01/index_en.html

This is my latest project: a 6 DOF, 3d printed robotic arm built using ODrives and BLDC motors.

llama 4 is really cheap for the quality !

What do you think will happen as AI eventually moves to a servant or maybe even a caretaker role?

Will it lead to Utopia where all are needs and wants are satisfied or Dystopia as people will no longer be needed and be powerless?

Will there be a loss of meaning as people are no longer needed to provide?

https://www.llama.com

Excited to have recently released Arch-Function-Chat A collection of fast, device friendly LLMs that achieve performance on-par with GPT-4 on function calling, now trained to chat. Why chat? To help gather accurate information from the user before triggering a tools call (the models manages context, handles progressive disclosure of information, and is also trained respond to users in lightweight dialogue on execution of tools results).

The model is out on HF, and integrated in https://github.com/katanemo/archgw - the AI native proxy server for agents, so that you can focus on higher level objectives of your agentic apps.

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/