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Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

by dfdx labs dfdxlabs.com published 2026-06-17

The first note in an independent robotics research project: a complete tabletop manipulation setup—industrial arm, two cameras, teleoperation, and a software stack built from scratch—for under €5,000.

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