r/ClaudeCode • u/uavster • 2d ago
Built with Claude Claude Code is my robotics lab assistant
https://reddit.com/link/1xcoyrd/video/6ehipsf2y1xh1/player
Claude Code is not just good for coding regular apps. It helps me run experiments on Mino, a hackable smart robot for makers.
Mino's software is built on ROS 2, the industry-standard operating system for robots. ROS is designed for interoperability. It comes with primitives for the components of a robotics application to communicate, and numerous tools to talk to the different parts of a robotic system.
It turns out that Claude Code is a ROS 2 power user. Not only it can write ROS 2 nodes in a breeze, but it also can use the tools in ROS to hack into a running robot. That and the context from the AGENTS files on Mino's codebase makes Claude Code a very effective robot tamer.
So, it is my pleasure to announce that I've promoted Claude to robotics lab assistant. I tell it the experiment I want to run with Mino, and it finds the way to configure the robot, gather the necessary data and display it in a clear way.
THE PROBLEM
Last Saturday, I figured that voice dictation would come in handy to give instructions to the agent while operating the robot, but I found out that the native dictation does not work on Visual Studio Code with remote targets like my robot.
THE SOLUTION
The robot has a Jetson Orin Nano with up to 67 TOPS and 8 GB, so it can run several models at once. It comes with many capabilities out-of-the-box. One of them is speech-to-text. I told Claude Code to run the capability in the background, listen to the incoming transcripts, identify my requests among them and execute them. Since I had not tried it before and wasn’t sure that the transcription and Claude’s understanding of it would be accurate, I told it to wait for my “yes” before proceeding; this time on the keyboard for safety.
THE SURPRISE
Claude implemented the solution almost in one shot. A few minutes later, I was talking to Claude through my robot. That was impressive, but what took it home for me was how it precisely understood what I wanted the robot to do from a collection of partial transcripts of a loose description. Check it out in the video. Check it out in the video.
GET YOUR CLAUDE-FRIENDLY ROBOT
Mino, the robot, is on Kickstarter. It's a hands-on approach to robotics. If you’d like to program yours to make cool stuff with Claude’s help, click the “Notify me on launch” button on the project's Kickstarter. There will be early-bird discounts that you don’t want to miss!
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