Website - dobot.cc
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Founder and CEO - Jerry Liu
"Dobot M1: Pro Robotic Arm for Makers and Businesses" on Kickstarter
"Dobot: Robotic Arm for Everyone, Arduino & Open Source" on Kickstarter
https://youtu.be/QpwL16p7o-s
Introduction of Dobot
Published on Sep 11, 2015
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Dobot is a 4-axis parallel-mechanism robotic arm, based on Arduino, and driven by stepper motors. The mechanical structure all adopt the industrial-grade processing technology and assembly process, and parts was developed by CNC machining technology, and the precision requirement is in 0.02 mm. It is open source, and it create by our team, some passionate makers.
https://youtu.be/FWKWVwLgWXw
Dobot Robotic Arm for everyone, Arduino and Open source
Published on Sep 15, 2015
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Unsatisfied by low cost, low precision and poor functionality desktop robotic arms on the market, a group of six hardcore robot makers decided to quit their high-paying industry jobs, and build their own. Named its first product Dobot, the team’s mission is to bring industrial precision to consumer, affordable robotic arms that can actually DO the job.
Fully designed and assembled in China, a new desktop, 4-axis, stepper motor, high precision robotic arm Dobot is launching its first Kickstarter campaign on September 15th, 2015 (Beijing Time).
The robot has tackled a series of technical difficulties struggled by other analogs. Here’s a list of its feature highlights:
? High mechanical accuracy (0.02mm)
? High repeat precision (0.2mm), 50 times better than uArm
? Stepper motor equipped with high accuracy reducer
? High strength aluminium alloy surface and processed by anodic oxidation treatment
? Mechanical structure assembled by the state of art CNC cutting technology, ensuring its superb agility, stability and durability
? Seven control methods including PC, mobile app, voice, vision, leap motion, geature and EEG (mind control)
? Easy click-and-drag control interface for beginners and also programmable for advanced makers, using Processing, Arduino, and C/C++ as primary languages
? Affordable price starting with $499
For making it even more friendlier to both makers and the general public, Dobot’s design is well-fit for desktop applications, see its tech specifications:
? Number of Axes: 4
? Weight: 3kg
? Payload: 500g
? Range: 270 degree rotation
? Position repeatability: 0.2mm
? Material: aluminium alloy 6061
? Controller: Arduino Mega2560
? Communication: UART/Bluetooth
? Power Supply: 12V 5A DC
The team has premiered its prototype at the 2015 Shenzhen Maker Faire, and has received positive feedback from makers, robot experts and open hardware communities ever since. “...the motion is really precise..it’s not just a toy, it can also be used to build stuff.” Says the CEO of Arduino, Massimo Banzi. On the popular DIY sharing platform Instrucables, its step-by-step instruction on building a robotic arm has received more than 23k likes in the first four days and got featured on the first page.
Upon their launch on Kickstarter, the team is very optimistic on the performance of Dobot, marching their way to helping the world’s robot lovers to explore the beauty of making stuff.
About the Team
The team was founded in June 2014 by a group of industrial robot engineers based in Shenzhen. The team’s CEO, Jerry (Peichao) Liu, and the head of engineering Art (Xulin) Lang both graduated from Shandong University in mechanics engineering. Jerry received its Masters from China Academy of Sciences, majoring in mechanics engineering and joined a robot company focusing on industrial robots for medical applications. Art during his Masters program, solely designed Delta parallel manipulator, Scara robot and a few others. After school, as the head of Scara robot project, he worked with Foxconn. All the founders all acquired extensive industry experience in robotics before joining the team. They have deep belief in bringing industrial precision robots to everyone’s desktop and in the future will launch a series of new models.
https://youtu.be/XGL35u-xssw
3D printing with robot arm: Turing Dobot arm into a 3D printer!
Published on Oct 5, 2015
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Dobot team always pay attention to backers' suggestions, in the first week of our campaign, a few backers mentioned that, with the high repeatability of Dobot arm, why not mounting a 3D extruder on our robotic arm, and turning our Dobot into a 3D printer?
What an amzing idea to turn our Dobot arm into a 3D printer! Our engineers have been working on this in their limited spare time and here is what we got last night.
This video will show how to use our Dobot for 3D printing, in the video , the 3D printer head is mounted on the end of a desktop robotic arm, and a remote extruder is used for delivering the PLA filement. As normal xyz structured 3D pritner, general 3D printing softwares can be used for slicing and excuting the G-code.
Infos about 3d printer kit:
3d slicing software: Slic3r
3d printing software: Printrun
3d printer firmware: Marlin
3d printer hardware: Dobot robot arm
About the 3d printing features, Dobot Team will dig more potential usage on it, pleas pay attention the next updates.
https://youtu.be/Vb_MmvY4u6A
Dobot robotic arm for everyone - full unboxing
Published on Jul 6, 2016
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Today we review something that Makers will love - the DOBOT Robotic Arm. You can now have an industrial level robotic arm...right in your home.
Look for our full review in about 3 weeks. We are playing with DOBOT now and will let you know how it works.
Here is more information -
Dobot is the world’s first high precision robotic arm at consumer grade. It features industrial scale accuracy and stability, intuitive and versatile controls, all at a highly competitive price.
Imagine when your new born baby says "flower" the first time in his/her life, and it gets sent to a Arduino robotic arm, automatically the word transforms to the character ? (dragon, see the gif below) in Chinese calligraphy on a piece of paper or a 3D printed plastic flower, or be typed on a mobile phone that sends to your parents.
Dobot is versatile and designed for everyone. It can draw, write, text, move, grab things following your orders. It liberates your arms from doing repetitive tasks. For more advanced makers, Dobot has great potential to be an essential part of your own project.
Dobot Brings Industrial Precision and Power to Your Life
Dobot’s high precision is the highlight. We spent much of our energy to optimize its technology. With such a low cost, we have managed to maintain the industrial precision level. When performing repetitive actions, the error in precision is as small as 0.2mm, empowering you to do delicate work without losing the precision. See below for more detailed info on specs.
https://youtu.be/OXm4o2pPHR8
Dobot Magician is coming soon
Published on Aug 11, 2016
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Meet Dobot Magician, a robotic arm that brings more creativity into your life.
https://youtu.be/ggT4hz5tM_0
Introducing Dobot Magician - the easiest-to-use multi-functional programmable robotic arm
Published on Aug 14, 2016
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Meet Dobot Magician! The 2nd generation of Dobot's robotic arm for your desktop!
Dobot Magician is now on presale with 20% off! 500 pieces limited!
Dobot Magician is the second generation of high precision 4-axis robotic arm for desktops, developed and produced by Shenzhen Yuejiang Technology Co., Ltd. It is multi-functional and has unibody design, bringing everyone the fun only technology can create. It is also easy to develop with its multiple extension ports and visualized programming environment, making it a very useful tool for both hardware lovers and coding beginners.
https://youtu.be/nk_-pFO2c7o
Chinese painting w/ Dobot Magician robotic arm - handhold teaching demo
Published on Sep 9, 2016
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Dobot Magician doing Chinese painting! With handhold teaching feature, you can teach Dobot magician to move the most intuitive way, and it repeats your movements exactly the same!
https://youtu.be/18JwoqmaOFw
Dobot M1, robotic arm for makers and businesses on Kickstarter now
Published on Nov 28, 2016
https://youtu.be/rhN2U5JbTY0
Dobot M1: Pro Robotic Arm for makers & businesses, 3D print, laser engrave, solder, pick & place...
Published on Nov 28, 2016
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Dobot M1 is the first industrial robotic arm for makers, educators and businesses. For businesses, It can enhance your efficiency in production line with picking and placing feature, visual system and more. For makers, you can 3d print, double color 3d print, 3d print on rail, laser engrave on wood, plastic, paper, leather, soldering, drawing, painting, picking and placing and more.
Dobot M1 is made to reverse one simple fact: industrial robotic arms are toooo expensive. With 0.02mm precision, velocity of 200 degrees per second, 1.5kg workload and 400mm maximum reach, Dobot M1 makes a perfect essence for a professional workspace, and we managed to keep the price under surprising $2000.
Not only that, with features like self-developed user interface, wireless connectivity, handhold teaching, and multi-Dobot cooperation capability, we've provided the most user-friendly environment for self-employers and factories to build their own production platform.
Dobot M1 is different
Unlike Dobot 1.0, Dobot M1 is designed for a different group of people, who need a more powerful, professional robotic arm that’s affordable, something in between a toy-like model and a high end industrial one. It’s new, no one’s made this product before. And since we enjoy talking to the brilliant minds on Kickstarter, we decided to launch the project here and let you keep talking about it.
Why Again
We’ve launched a campaign on Dobot 1.0 last year, and we heard a lot of voices from backers, which is a great way to understand users, and know how to make a better product needed by people. Once again, we’ve found something new and excited to accomplish, and we’re hoping that Kickstarter could tell us if we’re on the right track.
Can we deliver?
We're still on the way of improving every feature and finalizing the product, but we're confident to ship it to your hands by April/May 2017. Our first product, Dobot 1.0 has been upgrated to Dobot Magician, and it's already finalized and being sold on a regular basis. Our engineering resource is adequate to devote into developing Dobot M1 and meanwhile providing technical support.