Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

A quick link post—the first of what may become a recurring thing here, where the title links straight to whatever I’m pointing you at.

Full disclosure: this one is my own work. I wrote up how I built a desktop robotics research setup for less than €5,000—roughly a tenth of what an equivalent setup cost us six years ago at OpenAI. It covers the full bill of materials, the hardware choices, and the custom software stack I wrote instead of reaching for ROS 2 or LeRobot.

If you’ve wondered whether serious robotics research is something an individual can do at home now, I think you’ll like it.