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Re: What's your actual weekly time commitment to keep a solo build moving?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:59 am
by olga_lind
@ramirez77 Pretty much this. One thing to add:
A lot of hobbyists underestimate how much of the real difficulty in a DIY humanoid build is software and tuning rather than mechanical assembly - getting a robot to physically stand up is a much smaller fraction of the total project time than getting it to balance and walk reliably.
Re: What's your actual weekly time commitment to keep a solo build moving?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:59 am
by lisa.gonzalez8
I dealt with almost this exact situation.
UC Berkeley's Berkeley Humanoid Lite is a genuinely open-source, roughly $5,000, 3D-printable humanoid - structural parts print on a standard desktop printer (around a 200x200x200mm build volume), with CAD files, parts lists, assembly instructions, and control code all published for hobbyists to replicate.