Mr_Robot
Mr. Robot: a wheeled humanoid in a Webots kitchen
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GITHUB · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 63%) · 0 views
Niche: robotics software and platforms · 195 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Setting up a standard Webots simulation environment is accessible, but building whole-body balance control and manipulation kinematics for a wheeled humanoid requires specialized robotics engineering.
What it would actually take: Uses Webots coupled with ROS 2, leveraging MoveIt 2 for multi-joint arm trajectory planning and custom controllers for the wheeled base. The hard parts are whole-body inverse kinematics, collision-free object grasping in dynamic kitchen environments, and stable balance control during manipulation. Requires expertise in robotics control theory, kinematics, and ROS 2 middleware.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2918 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1793 of 2919 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
- Theseus Robotics: Humanoids for the Retail Aisle · yc · 2026-11-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- robotics · github · 2026-10-30 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Intelligence Factory · yc · 2026-05-30 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BiGym2 · github · 2026-10-08 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- RoboHarness · github · 2026-10-07 · 224 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Synphony - Automating Agriculture With Robots · yc · 2026-05-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Moving Atoms : World Models for Robots · yc · 2026-08-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NablaMimic · github · 2026-10-30 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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