Revolute v1.08 · Cooking with robot arms

1st A robot arm scoops oats beside a pot on a crowded workbench Preview SafeServe Colette Scott, Pranay Katyal, Sam Honor, Mohamed Abdelnaby, Siqi Wang Cooking meals safely through imitation learning and LTL-based verification. Open 2nd A robot arm lifts lettuce toward a slice of bread on a plate Preview YesChef Sanja Kirova, Gautham Ramkumar Say “Hey Chef, make me a sandwich,” and let the robot do the work! Open 3rd A robot arm lifts a slice of toast above a toaster Preview Toastability Rohan Raman, Sourav Selvaraj A robot arm that makes toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for people with disabilities that affect their ability to cook. Open A robot arm reaches for an orange, beside a simulation of the same arm Preview Fruitinator Kriish Hate, Jinhee A A robot arm’s journey from “let’s plate a beautiful charcuterie board” to “please just pick up the orange.” Open Photo from the Froyo project page Froyo Ahilesh Vadivel Robot-made fruit yogurt, powered by a vision-language-action model. It sees the berries and plates them itself. Open Three views of a robot arm toasting and preparing a bagel Preview Bagel-Bot ae s, P.S. Sethumadhavan We toast your bagel and spread Nutella on it. Yum yum yum. Open

Saturday, Aug. 1

  • 10:00 AMIntro tutorialSetting up the hardware and software stack
  • 12:01 PMOpening ceremony
  • 1:00 PMLunch and office hoursForm teams, mentors available for setup
  • 2:00 PMHacking begins
  • 6:15 PMIntermission: dinner
  • 10:00 PMHacking ends for the day

Sunday, Aug. 2

  • 10:00 AMDoors open, breakfast bites
  • 12:01 PMLunch
  • 3:00 PMScience-fair style demos and judgingJudges go around to tables for demos
  • 4:00 PMFinal submissionsGitHub, project documentation, and a one-minute video
  • 4:15 PMAwards
  • 4:30 PMLight snacks and social
  • 5:00 PMThat’s a wrap!
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When
Aug. 1–2, 2026
Where
FabLab Kendall, Cambridge
Hardware
$15k of robot arms

Thanks

Host
Fab Foundation, at FabLab Kendall
Sponsors
Seeed Studio, Minoic Intelligence
Partner
MITERS
Judges
Sayam Dhingra (Autodesk), Charis Georgiou (Minoic Intelligence), Erika Tsutshumi (Elemental Machines), Yuki Yamada (Walden Robotics), Charles Yong (Vassar Robotics)
Photos
James R Desmond

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