Building Thor 1.0 — a 6-DOF AI-powered robotic arm, solo-built with AI tools in one month.
One person + AI tools = a full team. I'm proving that a single builder can ship production-grade robotics by leveraging AI as a force multiplier across mechanical design, firmware, ML, and software engineering.
- 6-axis robotic arm with AI voice control
- Arduino-based firmware with inverse kinematics
- Built entirely solo using AI-assisted development
- Open source, community-driven
| Domain | Tools |
|---|---|
| Mechanical | SolidWorks, 3D printing |
| Electronics | Arduino, custom PCB design |
| Firmware | C/C++, Python |
| AI/ML | PyTorch, YOLO, edge inference |
| Software | Python, ROS2 |
- VLA Models — NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, Qwen-RobotManip, MemoryVLA
- LeRobot Ecosystem — PAROL6 desktop arm, any4lerobot utilities, LeIsaac sim teleop, VLA dataset toolkit
- Sim2Real — LeRobot sim2real training pipeline for zero-shot policy deployment
- Motion Retargeting — GMR, robot_retargeter for humanoid motion transfer
- World Models — NVIDIA Cosmos for Physical AI simulation
- Open-source robot arms — SO-ARM100, PAROL6, XLeRobot for design inspiration
Guangzhou, China 🇨🇳
- GitHub: @bkbk-robot
- Interested in: Robotics, Physical AI, VLA models, edge computing
- Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
- Robotic manipulation & imitation learning
- Edge AI deployment
- Open-source robotics hardware
"Every commit is a line on the resume."