There are now too many to mention and you can but some off Amazon for under $150 (I’m used to Staublis and Fanucs at work so I don’t know which cheap ones are best). None of them are easily programmable. They’re easy to control but making them do the physical action you want is a lot harder - most of the time it’s literally a bunch of instructions like “turn motor 1 23 degrees clockwise” that’s carefully tested to be repeatable. That’s been a problem in industrial automation since they first came out.
That’s why transformers are interesting in robotics, there’s been quite a bit of research (much of it popping up on the HN front page) about using transformers model to control the robot. Hopefully there will be a big breakthrough here in the next few years and robotic arms become easier to use.
There are now too many to mention and you can but some off Amazon for under $150 (I’m used to Staublis and Fanucs at work so I don’t know which cheap ones are best). None of them are easily programmable. They’re easy to control but making them do the physical action you want is a lot harder - most of the time it’s literally a bunch of instructions like “turn motor 1 23 degrees clockwise” that’s carefully tested to be repeatable. That’s been a problem in industrial automation since they first came out.
That’s why transformers are interesting in robotics, there’s been quite a bit of research (much of it popping up on the HN front page) about using transformers model to control the robot. Hopefully there will be a big breakthrough here in the next few years and robotic arms become easier to use.