What's Next

The roadmap for Stringman, from upcoming software releases to the next generation of hardware.

Events & Demos

I'm heading out to the west coas this summer to attend open source conferences and show off Stringman. If you want to talk robotics in person, here's where to find me.

  • Open Sauce 2026 I'll be attending Open Sauce this coming July (July 17-19) in San Mateo. I'll be available in SF for a few days afterwards as well.
  • Teardown 2026 Neufangled Robotics is also heading to Crowd Supply's Teardown conference (July 24-26) in Portland, OR. Crowd Supply is an enthusiastic supporter of open-source hardware.

    If you'll be at either event, email me or send me a message on Discord to coordinate a meetup!
Events and Demos

Pushing for more useful household capabilities

Stringman has come a long way. We're now beyond kinematics and focused on practical, vision-based autonomy. Action spaces and camera formats are now stable enough that a large corpus can start to be accumulated.

  • Laundry Picking Model Several new models have been successfully trained to identify, pick up, and place laundry directly into hampers. The latest at the time of this writing being naavox/dit-grasp-3 Watching the system run, the frontier of truly intelligent behavior suddenly feels within reach. Testing a new model is always an exciting moment.
  • Evaluating New Architectures Right now, We're actively evaluating and comparing several model types in the search for a combined system that can handle the task stringman is meant for - clearing your floor. We're experimenting JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) and a custom variant of DiT (Diffusion Transformer) that leverages DinoV3's patch embeddings for improved spatial awareness.

    As always, Stringman users are highly encouraged to try out the latest experimental models as they are published here.
Stringman hanging in a messy room

The Long-Term Vision

Neufangled Robotics aims to bring order to your home. Here is a look at what we are planning to make that happen.

  • Project Playroom Update The software and hardware are in place to launch a public-access Stringman robot. This will allow anyone to remotely drive the robot from a web browser and test its capabilities before committing to a build. We are ready to go, but we're currently still looking for a suitable physical location to host the setup at a decent price. It's not easy to find a 250 sqft room in the RDU area under $500/month with internet - if that existed someone would be living in it.
  • Future Product Ideas While ceiling-mounted cable robots remain our primary focus, we have several other long-term projects in the conceptual phase. First, a scaled-up, outdoor-rated cable robot. Second, a self-organizing—or at the very least, highly searchable—drawer storage cabinet to eliminate workshop clutter. Also, just because it re-uses our existing components, a garage target practice device.

    If these concepts interest you, or if you have features you'd desperately want to see in them, feel free to add your thoughts in the #ideas channel on Discord!
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