Robot nonsense

30cm 4x4 robot made out of aluminium enclosure

The pcb chassis/ mount plate seems good! Next wire up motors and try for actual movement

bsky.app/profile/robo...

This is more or less the software stack we're trying to integrate together for this platform

Small 30cm x 30cm 4x4 robot outdoors

Pico platform dev kit for the sowbot.co.uk project. Still some slightly annoying software bits to do before it works

A 30cm square 4x4 robot based around aluminum enclosure

Slightly more grown up looking robot nonsense

N3RD first day out did well. #maker #robot #fyp

Rearranged the sowbot.co.uk 'brain' to get it to fit inside a waterproof enclosure #robotics #ros2 #modular

caatingarobotics/src/sowbot_row_follow at jazzy · samuk/caatingarobotics Solar-powered 4x4 agricultural robot for row crops in semi-arid regions: increased technological adoption, traceability, process standardization, and reduced reliance on intensive manual labor. - s...

In-row the plan is to largely ignore GPS, the robot exists in relation to the row of plants github.com/samuk/caatin... GPS for getting between rows in this model.

Tall boi

Nathan Charles and Utsav Adhikari will present their work on “ROS2 GPS-based Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in the Agriculture and Livestock Space” at the 2026 TXST STEM Conference: From Lab to Landscape:

genstem.cose.txst.edu/txst-stem-co...

#ros2 #AUV #GPS #engineering #research #txst

This is up my street; sowbot.co.uk Is there a Github for it please?

A photo of Alan looking happy, wearing a beige t-shirt and glasses.

Alan Winfield (@alan-winfield.bsky.social) is Professor of Robot Ethics at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social. He co-founded the Bristol Robotics Lab, where his research is focussed on the science, engineering and ethics of cognitive robotics.

Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2026/03/13/e...

Arduino VENTUNO Q - Where AI Takes Action The powerhouse for AI and robotics applications

This might be interesting for open hardware enjoyers www.arduino.cc/product-vent... (assuming it actually is open hardware once released)

Home Our mission is to bridge the gap between sustainability and scale by providing researchers and farmers with reproducible, lightweight robotics that reduce labour and environmental impact without propr...

Updated the 'brain' and 'pico' robot BOM on sowbot.co.uk might try and get the Pico actually running tomorow

Just fire up Freecad for a while, will make you feel much better about using about those proprietary systems..

GitHub - samuk/list_of_robot_electronics: A curated list of awesome open source electronic resources for robotics A curated list of awesome open source electronic resources for robotics - samuk/list_of_robot_electronics

Updated this list of open hardware #robot electronics a bit github.com/samuk/list_o...

Messing about with robots continues, this one doesn't work yet, pending github.com/Agroecology-... #ros2 #agbot #sowbot #robotics

I think you're confusing 'shouldn't' and 'can't'

Attacking another state with no legal basis for example; is a bad idea, It doesn't mean that it can't be done.

Home Our mission is to bridge the gap between sustainability and scale by providing researchers and farmers with reproducible, lightweight robotics that reduce labour and environmental impact without proprietary dependencies. The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem is designed to bridge the “prototype gap” in

Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
https://sowbot.co.uk/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123894

See also www.theflagshop.co.uk/flag-poles-p...

Amazon.co.uk : nichrome wire

I think Nichrome wire is what you're looking for with a lead acid battery (I wouldn't risk shorting Lithium) www.amazon.co.uk/nichrome-wir... or if you're feeling flush uk.ryobitools.eu/power-tools/...

Dev was friendly and interested in their Discord too which is a bonus

Contributors to dora-rs/dora DORA (Dataflow-Oriented Robotic Architecture) is middleware designed to streamline and simplify the creation of AI-based robotic applications. It offers low latency, composable, and distributed dat...

There's also github.com/dora-rs/dora...

Contributors to copper-project/copper-rs Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. - Contributors to copper-project/copper-rs

github.com/copper-proje... active, but largely single dev

Contributors to openrr/openrr Open Rust Robotics. Contribute to openrr/openrr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Although saying that it does seem to be running out of momentum rather than gaining it github.com/openrr/openr... maybe there's an active fork

GitHub - copper-project/copper-rs: Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. - copper-project/copper-rs

It's early days for it I think, but maybe in 12 months is my thinking. Bring up ROS now and wait with a working robot rather than a pile of parts? Second link should have been github.com/copper-proje...

GitHub - foriequal0/rpi-pico-usb-c-mod: Raspberry Pi Pico USB-C Mod Raspberry Pi Pico USB-C Mod. Contribute to foriequal0/rpi-pico-usb-c-mod development by creating an account on GitHub.

This easy github.com/foriequal0/r... does look a bit hacky TBF

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State of the Browser is sold out in-person, but £20 will buy you a whole day of online talks by industry experts.

2026.stateofthebrowser.com

GitHub - copper-project/copper-rs: Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. - copper-project/copper-rs

Second link should be github.com/copper-proje...

A open hardware Avaota A1 SBC with some purty lights

Current thinking about a 2026 ROS bringup github.com/Agroecology-...

Then gradual migration to github.com/openrr/openrr + github.com/openrr/openrr as they (and hopefully I) mature.

Project is sowbot.co.uk

Worth it, or just start as you mean to go on? #ros2 #rust #robotics cc @sequoia.farm