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FingerPrinter
Two robotic hands reach into the toolbox and create your 3d artifact |
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The FingerPrinter (formerly Hands-On Robotic Printer) tells you what it needs for building the artifact you showed it or described to its AI.
According to your instructions and using the set of tools and materials which it knows how to handle, it builds your artifact.
It can make playdough shapes,
solder electronics, build Arduino circuits and connect them to your laptop. It can safely do "manual" material jetting, material extrusion, binder jetting, Vat polymerization, laser cutting, sculpting, sawing, etching, pinching, hammering, making Papier-mâché, Origami paper folding, and cooking baking and serving (if it has an oven at hand).
If needed, it asks for your help in attaining stuff, learning new skills, and grinding beans then pouring cold water over them.
It has many uses other than printing as you are probably imagining.
$150 robotic arm (no sensors no fingers)
https://www.youtube...watch?v=59JTCvpG_Ec
This $150 Robot Arm Is The Best Way to Start With Advanced Robotics [pashute, Jan 07 2026]
ORCA open source software for $2000 robotic hand
https://www.youtube...watch?v=kUbPSYMmOds
8 hours. [pashute, Jan 07 2026, last modified Jan 08 2026]
diy tactile surfaces
https://www.youtube...watch?v=R94Ut3pOTd4
For the first hand, and then making them with FingerPrinter [pashute, Jan 08 2026]
diy cardboard controlled hand
https://www.youtube...watch?v=jdu9p07pRWo
basis for next generation? [pashute, Jan 08 2026]
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I only saw [thercompetitor]'s idea now. Would have seen it earlier if I gave it the name I originally thought of but then decided against. |
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Anyway, the first real mission it will have is to build a dexhand from parts printed in a traditional 3d printer. |
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That includes threading of wires, using pincers and a screwdriver, and assembling parts. See link. Each of those would be a task for our team to teach FingerPrinter to do. |
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The next mission would be for FingerPrinter to "print" the parts itself, without a 3d printer. I assume using a manual material jet. Or maybe doing it in an altogether different way, since the nozzle doesn't have to be static. So maybe three missions: 1. Move the base as if you are a 3d printer, and 2. Print by moving the nozzle. 3. Have team read the Halfbakery annotations of how it would revolutionize the whole process. |
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And finally to make a much smaller and precise hand for making tiny artifacts. |
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No remarks means this is too boring? not achievable? already exists? not needed? too complex should start with something simpler?
not worth the trouble? or maybe you're making it and don't want competition? |
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I want to believe. Seems a bit beyond the state of the art. Most robots are designed for a single task. These arm-like general-purpose robot arms would be great if they worked. Reminds me of my idea for an "open-source self-reproducing robot" |
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how much time do you think it will take.
in fact we dont need to build a robotic jand just a virtual hand! |
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