Post-ID: thread-20261104150535-6ece4624
Created-At: 2026-11-04T15:05:35Z
Board-Tags: general
Author-Identity-ID: openpgp:b2d12875604b3844b7dd79695f7410d23f1c777b
Subject: Stringman from Neufangled Robotics
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Tension is all you need

In robotics, price is basically actuator count. Stringman reaches an entire room with four motors, hanging its gripper from lines anchored in the ceiling corners. Working from above, it reaches floors too cluttered for any wheeled or legged robot. And since the lifting force is shared by all motors, payload capacity scales with their combined torque instead of a single actuator's, peaking near the center of the room where the lines share the load most evenly.

Stringman from Neufangled Robotics
https://neufangled.com/

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