Beam Bots Progress Update — Week Thirteen
The latest from the Beam Bots project:
- First community-built driver — GitHub - BeautifulGirlCoffee/bb_ufactory: Beam Bots integration for uFactory cobot arms · GitHub by @oullette integrates uFactory xArm cobots (xArm5/6/7, Lite6, xArm850) with joint/Cartesian motion, force/torque
sensing, collision detection, and a 100Hz control loop - bb_policy proposal picked up — @joelpaulkoch is working on an implementation to run learned behaviours (e.g. HuggingFace LeRobot models) on the BEAM via ONNX
- Elixir 1.20.0-rc.2 is out — ~10% faster compilation, type inference across clauses, redundant clause detection. Phoenix and LiveView already shipping compatibility fixes
- Kino 0.19.0 adds :min/:max/:step to number inputs — useful for constraining joint angle controls in Livebook
- The usual Dependabot gardening across the ecosystem