13 papers
MEVION: Low-Cost Open-Source Data Collection System for Powerful and High-Speed Dual-Arm Manipulation
Kento Kawaharazuka, Yoshiki Obinata, Hirokazu Ishida +6
The global competition for developing robotic foundation models is intensifying. Among the data collection systems used for dual-arm robots, ALOHA is representative of being low-co…
WiXus: A Wheeled-Legged Robot with Wire-Driven Environmental Utilizing to Integrate Mobility and Manipulation
Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki +2
Wheeled-legged robots, which have wheels at their feet and achieve high mobility by coordinating wheel drive and leg drive, have been developed. These robots have been developed pu…
MEVIUS2: Practical Open-Source Quadruped Robot with Sheet Metal Welding and Multimodal Perception
Kento Kawaharazuka, Keita Yoneda, Shintaro Inoue +3
Various quadruped robots have been developed to date, and thanks to reinforcement learning, they are now capable of traversing diverse types of rough terrain. In parallel, there is…
REWW-ARM -- Remote Wire-Driven Mobile Robot: Design, Control, and Experimental Validation
Takahiro Hattori, Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki +2
Electronic devices are essential for robots but limit their usable environments. To overcome this, methods excluding electronics from the operating environment while retaining adva…
A Universal Wire Testing Machine for Enhancing the Performance of Wire-Driven Robots
Temma Suzuki, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei Okada
Compared with gears and linkages, wires constitute a lightweight, low-friction transmission mechanism. However, because wires are flexible materials, they tend to introduce large m…
MEVITA: Open-Source Bipedal Robot Assembled from E-Commerce Components via Sheet Metal Welding
Kento Kawaharazuka, Shogo Sawaguchi, Ayumu Iwata +3
Various bipedal robots have been developed to date, and in recent years, there has been a growing trend toward releasing these robots as open-source platforms. This shift is foster…