The LVL1 Hackerspace in Louisville hosted a hackathon for useless and impractical devices a couple of years ago and this makeshift Duh-Vinci Surgical Robot was one of the “successful” results.

[Aaed Musa] has built a variety of robots over the years, but found off-the-shelf servos to be underwhelming for his work. Thus, he set out to build a better actuator to support his goals of ...

The motions were trained using roughly 100 demos. If you’d like a robot to help clean up at home, The Robot Studio has released plans on YouTube for building the arms on a budget.