robot-pick-place-liquid-sim
KUKA iiwa with a Cartesian Hand picks capped tubes, twists the caps off, pours and recaps them. PhysX rigid bodies and grasping, NVIDIA Warp liquid, cuRobo planning, ray-traced rendering in threepp. Runs on a 6 GB laptop GPU.
Details
- External ID
- 1391265463
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- robot-pick-place-liquid-sim
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21822956699974377
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- 3D graphics and physics simulation tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- robotics simulation for pick-and-place liquid handling
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Simulating high-fidelity rigid body grasping, SPH fluid dynamics via NVIDIA Warp, and GPU-accelerated motion planning (cuRobo) requires advanced robotics and computational physics expertise.
What it would actually take: The stack relies on NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Omniverse, NVIDIA Warp for particle-based smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) fluid simulation, and cuRobo for real-time collision-free trajectory generation on GPU. Crafting this requires advanced robotics domain expertise in contact mechanics, Cartesian impedance control, URDF/USD asset setup, and fine-tuning GPU-accelerated simulation kernels.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 12 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 13 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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