@liyitengx: Someone called AlohaMini a toy robot. Fair enough. So we asked our ~$1000 open-source robot to lift a 30kg (66 lb) buck…
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A ~$1000 open-source robot called AlohaMini lifts a 30kg bucket of water, rebutting the 'toy' label, and AlohaMini2 is teased as coming soon.
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Someone called AlohaMini a toy robot.
Fair enough.
So we asked our ~$1000 open-source robot to lift a 30kg (66 lb) bucket of water.
It did.
AlohaMini2 is coming soon. https://t.co/MQl5te15pa
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