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Cora is a robotic lamp with vision, audio, and object manipulation capabilities.
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Cora can hold objects.
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Cora plays catch!
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Cora in a workspace.
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Made with love using Arduino
Inspiration
What if home assistants could lend you a robotic hand? Cora, the Coordinated Optical Robotic Assistant, could represent a new way to interact with technology and supercharge how we work.
What it does
Cora recognizes your voice, tracks your work, and can act as a third arm that hands you the tools you need to succeed. Its integrated LLM can give you brain superpowers, whether you're sketching ideas, diving into code, or just trying to find something you lost on your desk.
How we built it
We attached motors and sensors to a desk lamp, transforming it from a
Challenges we ran into
As it turns out, building a robotic arm over a single weekend may be a little overambitious considering it takes industrial automation companies several years to come up with a prototype. We had trouble at all levels of Cora, from the kinematics to the voice control and Large Language capabilities.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Two parts of Cora stand out as special accomplishments. First, we designed and fabricated a working grabber, translating the rotational motion of a servo into a functional grasping motion. Secondly, we
What we learned
We learned a lot about tolerancing 3d prints, function calling from LLMs, and getting enough rest.
What's next for Cora the Assistant
In order to see Cora actually "play ball", we would need higher-quality degrees of freedom and better calibration.
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