#712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa

Aaed is a YouTuber who builds a variety of robots and a mechanical engineering student at Purdue. He just completed his undergrad degree and is now working on his Master’s degree. I believe he is the first Amp Hour guest who is still a full time student.

His channel has a great variety of builds including designing all the way down to gearboxes.

Aaed says the MIT “mini cheetah” launched many low(er) costs builds of robots, including his own.

Boston Dynamics (and many others) announced their new ATLAS robotics platform at CES this year.

FOC motor controller

Backlash is a measure of how much movement you have between the teeth of gears (and thus how accurate you can be with open loop control)

Ball bearing balancing robot

Inverse kinematics

Past guest of the show James Bruton was a model for the builds that Aaed does

what does the glue look like

His recent build uses…rope…to build a robot dog?

A Capstan drive has virtually zero backlash

“relatively new rope” DM20

High precision speed reducer using rope

the impacts of materials on design processes

Juicero

Relationship with classmates and professors as a YouTuber

Purdue Engineering

Aaed picked up electronics from youtube

What’s his take on LLMs?

Making next CARA open source

New video recently came out about a spinning top

bulk of the cost is in the motors and motor controllers

growing up in the age of youtubers