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Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot (msgtn.xyz)
58 points by psychomugs 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
From the post:

Blossom is an open-source robot platform for human-robot interaction (HRI) research that I developed during my PhD. I’ve used Blossom for research in design, machine learning, and telepresence; others have made Blossoms for their own research purposes. I have continued working on “rebuilding” the entire platform: I redesigned the inner frame as a model kit, complete with Gunpla-inspired runners and instructions, and refactored the codebase as r0b0, a Python library for communicating between hardware peripherals and software applications. In preparation to present Blossom at Maker Faire Coney Island, I refined the telepresence interface and enabled conversational interaction with a language model. The new repository is available on GitHub and includes documentation for construction.



This is unrelated but I'm going to take inspiration from your Evangelion-themed project and personal website aesthetic!


This is such a cool project. The instruction manual was quite exciting to see. Nicely written post.


I really like the design of the robot. It’s very expressive and cute!


Newly created domain + .xyz TLD is not a good combo for launching a project (wrt blocklists)




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