Week Five: Tasks Get Orchestrated, Roadmaps Get Transparent
Reactor sagas arrive for task orchestration, the SO-101 hardware lands, Feetech servo support begins, and the proposals repo lets you see what's coming.
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Updates, tutorials, and insights from the Beam Bots project.
Beyond Behaviour Trees: Task Orchestration the Elixir Way
Why we chose Reactor sagas over behaviour trees for robot task orchestration, and what that means for resilience and safety.
Week Four: Robots Learn to Not Hit Themselves
Collision detection arrives, commands become interruptible GenServers, IK solvers reject self-collisions, and Livebook gets a Parameters widget.
Week Three: No Hardware? No Problem
Simulation mode lets you run robots without hardware, param() references make configuration actually pleasant, math types land, and inverse kinematics learns about orientation.
Week Two: Tell It Where, Not How
The WidowX-200 comes alive with Dynamixel control, inverse kinematics lands, a LiveView dashboard appears, and we're planning a budget-friendly robot arm for 2026.
Week One: Discord, Robot Arms, and Livebook Widgets
Beam Bots gets a Discord channel, a 5-DoF robot arm donation, interactive Livebook widgets, a safety system, and two servo drivers. Not bad for a week.
Announcing Beam Bots: Resilient Robotics on the BEAM
Introducing Beam Bots, a framework for building fault-tolerant robotics applications in Elixir using familiar OTP patterns.