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Working with robots has always been harder than it should be.
The intelligence was hard to access. The hardware was hard to afford.
Today, both change.
@makermodsai Maker Arm + Metal Arm, powered by @dreamlabs_ai 's Dream-1. Give your robot a task in plain language, right from your browser.
Try it: playground.makermods.ai
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Dream-1 on the Maker Arm Station
Prompt:
Pick up the limes and place them in the basket
Didn’t expect both arms to go for the limes immediately and grabbing it zero-shot. The @dreamlabs_ai Dream-1 model is unbelievable.
Forward deployed at @memora_labs. Working with @tigeyshark22 @sungmink304 to make automated prep work at restaurants possible. Can’t wait to see what they build with the Maker Arms
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We're hosting a huge Physical AI hackathon.
We’ve run robotics hackathons before but this one is different:
Bimanual Metal Arm and Maker Arm Stations
Fine Tune Dream-1, this is not another ACT competition
New Hill Climb leaderboard format
Two tracks: push your robot up the live eval leaderboard. Or build the creative, most useful robot application you can think of.
Partnering with @dreamlabs_ai @livekit @huggingface @nvidia @_lightcompany @mirdainsystems
November 7–8. San Francisco.
Co-hosted with Founders Inc @fdotinc
Come build with us: luma.com/pah
At @calhacks, a team we sponsored gave Claude the ability to PinPoint all the issues in your circuit 🔌
an MCP server drives the @makermodsai Maker Arm across the test bench to turn the multimeter, probe pins, and report back
tired of packing up your tools after using them? just get @dreamlabs_ai dream-1 and the @makermodsai metal arm to do it
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10 minutes Metal Arm Station deployment setup
Collab with Caldera with @yeokch @raghav2956 @HuanbinChe0dde.
Ready for zero-shot rollouts with Dream-1 @dreamlabs_ai
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This is the best place to build hardware 🌎
Robotic arms, actuators, flying cars, autonomous CNCs, and more...
Last Friday, we invited investors onto our campus to see what these 30 new teams have been building.
DM us if you want an invite to the next one.
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Robot metal arms from MakerMods have arrived and assembling them with @willwarren onto our coffee table. Excited to train it and learn a lot!
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Hardware is becoming a team sport.
@IsaacSin12 and @Ryan_Resolution built a $999 robot arm.
@Jonnysdoes built a device that understands objects and projects onto them.
Now imagine 100 hardware founders under one roof:
The fastest way to try Dream-1 on your own robot arms:
playground.makermods.ai
Plug your arms into a laptop, open Chrome, type a task. Nothing to install: no Python, no ROS, no drivers
No arms yet? Buy one from makermods.ai
How it works 👇
The whole robot stack runs in a browser tab. Servo drivers, calibration, cameras, the control loop and IK are all TypeScript. The tab talks to your arms over Web Serial. Dream-1 runs in the cloud, everything that touches the robot runs in your browser.
We wrote the SO-101's Feetech STS3215 servo protocol from scratch in TypeScript, packet by packet at 1 Mbaud. Two background threads split the work. One owns the serial ports and runs a 20 Hz control loop. The other handles the cameras, the Dream-1 calls and the IK.
Setup takes a few clicks:
- Swing to find: move each arm by hand and the console watches every USB port to see which one moved. No guessing /dev/tty names.
- Auto-calibrate: motors drive each joint to its end stops, write the result to the servos' memory, and line it up with Dream's reference arm. Both arms calibrate at once.
Dream-1 outputs hand poses, not joint angles, so something has to turn them into joint commands. We ported Dream's own trajectory IK solver to TypeScript. It solves each full 48-step action chunk at once, with velocity, acceleration and jerk limits, and it's checked against the Python SDK's output.
No arm yet? The same page runs a MuJoCo physics sim in the browser, compiled to WebAssembly. Prompt Dream-1 on virtual arms first. Works with SO-101, Maker Arm and Metal Arm.
try it out yourself -> playground.makermods.ai
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Special Shoutout to our friends in @anvil_robotics @AGIBOTofficial @MeckaAI @xdofai @robocurve @cortexairobot @makermodsai @GenrobotAI @eastworlds_io @BitRobotNetwork @ScaleAILabs @LeRobotHF @huggingface @roborobots @ROBOTIS for helping us with our early beta testing across Asia, Europe, and the Americas Europe and America 🌍.
A truly global stress test of Dream-1 before our launch!
Try @dreamlabs_ai's latest model, dream-1, live on @makermodsai metal arms at the @encord_team Physical AI Summit 🦾
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Metal Arm first zero-shot task on Dream-1!
Today, I’m excited to share that we've been working with @dreamlabs_ai for the past month to make sure that our @makermodsai Maker Arm and Metal Arm works day one with their SOTA world action model, Dream-1
Here’s a look at what we’ve launched 👇
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Today, Dream Labs is coming out of stealth with Dream-1, a robot foundation model that controls bimanual robots it has never seen, on tasks it was never shown, in places it has never been, from $3/hour.
Dream API is live for everyone, today. 🧵
Prompt to action: "Take off the lid of a jar" 🫙
Fully autonomous. One Metal Arm holds the jar while the other twists the lid off. (2× speed)
Check out more demos of what our arms can do 👇 makermods.ai/#catalog