MABEL
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Assembled robots, parts kits and spare parts are not on sale yet. Tell us who you are, why you need the robot, which parts you want and what it will do, and we will write to you when it opens. The plans are free today if you would rather build your own.
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MABEL is open. The bill of materials names every vendor, and the illustrated guide walks the build chapter by chapter. Sourcing the Essential build yourself costs about $8,056 in parts at list price, from the published bill of materials; the compute, sensors and hands you choose move it up from there.
MABEL is a mobile bimanual robot: a holonomic swerve base, a 0.635 m lift, a torso, two 7-DOF arms, a 3-DOF head and, as standard, two 17-DOF dexterous hands built from the open ORCA Hand design, for 56 functional degrees of freedom. The software is released under Apache-2.0, the hardware under CERN-OHL-S-2.0 and the documentation under CC BY 4.0.
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Yes. The plans, the bill of materials with every vendor named and the illustrated build guide are free in the DIY guide.
It can be teleoperated from a Vision Pro, an iPhone, a browser or a gamepad; record demonstrations to LeRobot datasets; map and navigate a space with a lidar through SLAM and Nav2; and run trained policies on its on-board compute. A MuJoCo twin of the whole robot is free to use now.
The base is 0.49 m across. The lift travels 0.635 m, placing the shoulders anywhere from table height to above a standard counter, and the arms span 2.23 m fingertip to fingertip.
A hardware E-stop de-energises every actuator independently of the computer, every command path is covered by a watchdog, and a tip-over model bounds the base's motion by the robot's centre of mass. MABEL is a research platform rather than a certified consumer product, and it should be operated under supervision as described in the safety chapter of the wiki.
No. The iPhone app, the browser control centre, a gamepad and the keyboard all drive the robot. A Vision Pro adds whole-body teleoperation.