ElRobot is finally open-source! 🚀 Meet ElRobot: a highly affordable, fully 3D-printed robotic arm. Features: ⚙️ Fully 3D printed design 🦾 7+1 DOF 🧠 Ideal for physical AI research & imitation learning 🔧 Zero custom hardware needed, just print and add your servo kit! What we’re sharing today: 📁 STEP & STL files 📖 Step-by-step assembly manual 🖨️ Ready-to-print Bambu Lab projects 🤖 URDF files Download and build yours here: github.com/norma-core/norma-…

The Rover moves continuously through the vineyard, recording changes with a basic, affordable camera and other sensors. Each pass adds dated observations to a shared record. We use it to build and check reconstructions like this one, for people and AI to work with. #robotics #PhysicalAI #AgTech #precisionAgriculture

What a few days in Córdoba 💚 Seeing so many people stop, get curious about the Rover, ask hard questions and share what they actually need in the field meant a lot to us. Thank you to everyone who spent time with us at #SembrAI2026, and especially to the organisers for having us.

NormaCore ElRobot making the front page today! 🚜🤖 #SembrAI2026

Leader and follower ElRobot arms on the table. One gripped, one reaching. This is what physical AI actually looks like before the hype deck. @norma_core_dev #Robotics #PhysicalAI #OpenSource #Hardware #ElRobot #shenzhenfoundry

The rover is exploring Cordoba and getting ready for SembrAI2026. #robotics #physicalAI #agtech

Glad to be the official manufacturing partner for @norma_core_dev Check out the @makermodsai ElRobot store page: makermods.ai/elrobot

First ElRobot arms assembled in our Kyiv lab

Testing the new camera module for the Rover: RGB + thermal. #Robotics #PhysicalAI #Engineering #OpenSource

Can’t wait to see MOSS in action! 🤖♻️

ElRobot on rails 🤖🦾

A new run of ElRobot Kit samples is fully produced, checked, and ready to head out 🚀

NormaCore is heading to #SembrAI2026 See you there! 👋 📍 Córdoba, Spain | 21–22 September

I don't know if I'm just mad, but yesterday it all clicked. Two years of building: Vita, a rover, a Thai sidecar with a roof and plenty of solar power, robot arms, ML, teleop. Separate projects, or so I thought. I'm now cooking something that might be cool with the @dimensionalos stack and @norma_core_dev arms.

$300 and $1,629 are both “desktop research arms” on the same spreadsheet. They are not the same product. ->SO-101: $300, leader + follower. ->EIRobot: $399, leader + follower + 2 cameras, 7+1. ->OpenMANIPULATOR-X: $1,629, one arm. ->reBot-DevArm: $1,699, no PSU. ->AR4-MK3: $1,329, combo kit, no motors. Open hardware is table stakes now. The real filter is what the retail line item actually ships. #PhysicalAI #RobotArm #LeRobot #OpenHardware #EmbodiedAI #EIRobot

Our AgTech Rover is exploring the site on its own. An AI model reads the camera feed and VESC data, then decides where and how to move next. #robotics #Agtech #PhysicalAI #OpenSource

Our AgTech Rover is becoming agentic 🧠 The LLM can now use historical and real-time data to understand what’s happening and control the rover. #robotics #agrotech #AgTech #physicalAI #OpenSource

We're excited to announce that we're partnering with Estun Automation, China’s largest industrial robot manufacturer, as ESTUN expands its European operations 🎉

NormaCore + Nebius = ❤️ @nebiusai published our customer story. Read it here: 🔗nebius.com/customer-stories/…

One day with the @norma_core_dev ElRobot kit and LeRobot. The video is 3 min of full speed teleop, this thing twists in all directions and it's super reactive, good hardware for real. What we did today, everything is public: Ported the community ElRobot fork into a standalone LeRobot 0.6 plugin. No fork needed, the standard CLIs just work (calibrate, teleoperate, record). Benchmarked the kit, numbers are impressive: the servo bus answers a full 8 motor read in 1.15 ms, that's around 860 Hz of headroom, way more than what a 30 Hz imitation learning loop needs. Cameras do a stable 30 fps at 1080p in MJPG. Check your capture mode, raw YUYV caps at 5 fps on any USB 2.0 camera. Calibrated the 8 DOF arm without needing 3 hands: the arm goes to mid range by itself and holds the pose, you just press ENTER. Then we ran teleop uncapped, no speed limit. Safety comes from alignment instead, both arms start from their gravity rest pose, so there is nothing to chase. The fun part: we chased a wrist singularity, a joint would suddenly spin a full turn at max speed. We logged raw encoder ticks at 60 Hz and the data showed the mechanism: free spinning wrists have no end stop, your hand can cross the magnetic encoder wrap point and the reading jumps 359 degrees. Fixed with encoder unwrapping plus recentering the wrap away from the work zone. Best part, we then read NormaCore's open source code and their calibration does the same recentering. Two roads, same physics, good sign for the design. Bonus round: while shooting this post video I felt some lag on fast joints during a stress test, I suspected data collisions. The log said no: 60000 ticks over 18 min, loop steady at 18 ms, worst tick 28 ms, the bus never hiccuped once. Real culprit was a servo gain, the community port had halved P against shakiness, that costs around 100 ms of tracking lag at 250 deg/s. Factory gains restored, PID is configurable now. Lesson: instrument first, blame later. Everything is here, Apache 2.0, README with the numbers and every trap we hit: github.com/metrox-eth/lerobo… @ptruiz_dev feel free to review it. Day one verdict: clean prints, correct IDs out of the box, a fast bus, and open source deep enough that you can read how it works. Once the settings are right, this thing dances.