Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot

54 points · psychomugs · 13 hours ago

From the post:

Blossom is an open-source robot platform for human-robot interaction (HRI) research that I developed during my PhD. I’ve used Blossom for research in design, machine learning, and telepresence; others have made Blossoms for their own research purposes. I have continued working on “rebuilding” the entire platform: I redesigned the inner frame as a model kit, complete with Gunpla-inspired runners and instructions, and refactored the codebase as r0b0, a Python library for communicating between hardware peripherals and software applications. In preparation to present Blossom at Maker Faire Coney Island, I refined the telepresence interface and enabled conversational interaction with a language model. The new repository is available on GitHub and includes documentation for construction.

skakar · 9 hours ago

This is unrelated but I'm going to take inspiration from your Evangelion-themed project and personal website aesthetic!

gtirloni · 4 hours ago

Newly created domain + .xyz TLD is not a good combo for launching a project (wrt blocklists)

aspenmayer · 3 hours ago

I really like the design of the robot. It’s very expressive and cute!

brian-armstrong · 8 hours ago

This is such a cool project. The instruction manual was quite exciting to see. Nicely written post.