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sigrobotics
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uiuc special interest group for robotics | making robots go brrr, creators of LeKiwi if you'd like to sponsor us, dm or email [email protected]
urbana, il
sigrobotics.acm.illinois.edu
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    Oct 23, 2025
    Running a GR00t N1.5 model for matcha pouring. Getting ready for hackathon @seeedstudio @NVIDIARobotics @VectorWang2
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    Mar 14, 2025
    teleop go brrr
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    Feb 23, 2025
    🚀 Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the public release of LeKiwi 🎉—an open-source, low-cost mobile manipulator developed by SIGRobotics at UIUC in collaboration with @LeRobotHF. Check out our design and instructions on our Github (linked below)!
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    Feb 28, 2025
    mujoco xml for lekiwi mostly works need to fix joint limits, make the colors less ugly, fix some other random bugs, then open-source will probably add a basic teleop script too stay tuned!
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    Jul 15, 2025
    LeKiwi's got a new look🤯 We redesigned our mobile manipulator from the ground up with full Dynamixel integration 🦾 Check out the build instructions on our GitHub (linked below)👀 Huge thanks to @ROBOTISAmerica for sponsoring this project!
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    Apr 5, 2025
    come join us at uiuc's engineering open house today!
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    Feb 28, 2025
    another arm almost done... ...and can someone buy us a bambulab 🥺🙏
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    Oct 10, 2025
    Playing with water with our Xlerobot @VectorWang2
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    Nov 2, 2025
    Thanks @mehul for hosting our visit @maticrobots last weekend. We learned a lot and it was awesome seeing everything that went into the Matic robot's design. Seeing yall's journey has been really motivating for us building projects at SigRobotics.
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    Mar 5, 2025
    coming soon if you're a company or individual interested in sponsoring us so we can build more projects like LeKiwi, please reach out!
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    Oct 31, 2025
    Last weekend, 13 SIGRobotics students flew from the cornfields to San Francisco to participate in two different robotics hackathons… And we won awards at both! Our project “Performative”, a matcha-making robot, won first place at the Seeed Studio x NVIDIA Hackathon. Our
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    Oct 24, 2025
    Wrapped up our Tech Talk event with @neuralink! Thank you so much to everyone who came and filled up the room, and a special thank you to @djseo for taking the time to come and speak to our members.
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    Feb 23, 2025
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    Github: github.com/SIGRobotics-UI… More updates, like MJCF, coming soon as well!
    GitHub - SIGRobotics-UIUC/LeKiwi: LeKiwi - Low-Cost Mobile Manipulator
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    Oct 21, 2025
    Jay and @leo_lin6 at Sigrobotics have been working on this soft tendon driven hand that will be open sourced soon. Heres a vision based teleop prototype: Credit goes to @orcahand for the self tensioning spool designs.
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