Project
Low-cost cobot test platform built around a modular kinematic puppet, with interchangeable end-effectors, connectors, bases, CAD iteration, and physical prototypes.
Modular robot-skeleton concept for low-cost cobot prototyping, using morphology tables, weighted decision matrices, CAD, and physical prototypes to compare end-effector, connector, and base options.
This project framed the Kinematic Puppet as a low-cost physical cobot test platform. The idea was to use a modular robot skeleton so forms, joints, bases, and end-effectors could be handled and rearranged early.
The page focuses on concept generation, connector and base design, morphology comparison, CAD iteration, and physical prototyping as a way to discuss early cobotics design.
Early cobot concepts are hard to assess when the robot form exists only as sketches or CAD renders.
The design challenge was to propose a low-cost platform with modular parts, safe handling, manufacturable interfaces, and enough flexibility to compare end-effector and morphology options before any industrial-grade build.
The project treated the kinematic puppet as a physical tool for exploring cobot shape, reach, modularity, and end-effector options at low cost.
End-effectors, connectors, bases, and body layouts were explored as interchangeable building blocks rather than one fixed robot arrangement.
Morphology tables and weighted decision matrices helped compare modularity, manufacturability, safe handling, ease of assembly, and prototype constraints.
CAD and physical prototype visuals translated selected ideas into tangible robot-hardware pieces for review and later testing.
The kinematic puppet approach keeps robot-body changes discussable before committing to a fixed cobot form.
Gripper, hook, claw, clamp, magnet, connector, and base concepts were compared as modular options for different handling and interaction scenarios.
The work kept safe handling, manufacturability, modularity, serviceable interfaces, and testability visible as prototype-stage constraints.
Selected project material used to show CAD, component, prototype, or documentation details.
A prototype-stage case study showing modular cobot prototyping, end-effector options, connector and base concepts, and CAD-to-prototype communication.
Relevant to robot hardware because it connects early interaction questions to mechanical choices: modular interfaces, safe handling, manufacturable parts, and testable concepts.