FundedHardware & robotics
Seeing hands: vision for a DIY robot arm
Teaching a $90 printer-parts robot arm to find, pick up and sort objects from a camera feed.
How the AI credit will be used
Describe what the arm's camera sees and plan grips, for a year of tinkering and a public tutorial series. Roughly 60% on understanding camera frames (Claude Sonnet 5), about 30% on planning arm movements (GPT-6 Mini), and about 10% on writing the tutorials (either provider).
Funded — thank you!
The arm now picks up anything it can see and names what it's holding. Next: sorting laundry, badly.
How it works
A webcam frame goes to a vision model, which returns what's on the table and where. A small model turns that into arm moves.
AI credit pledged≈ 65.5M / 50M tokens$1,310.00 / $1,000.00
10 backers
Final total
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