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Robot vacuum with an arm: how it picks up a sock

By @elvar_official, part of Visual Learning. A laser sensor to map and a gripper arm that tucks itself away.

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A robot vacuum with its arm unfolded picking a sock up off the floor.Open on its site
Screenshot of Robot vacuum with an arm: how it picks up a sock on its original site, taken on October 25, 2026. The lab belongs to its author; we only link to it.

The question it answers

How does a robot vacuum pick a sock up off the floor?

The steps

  1. 1Start
  2. 2Detect and grab
  3. 3Into the basket
  4. 4Vacuum
  5. 5Take it apart
  6. 6The gripper

The big idea: A Roborock robot vacuum of this kind keeps a folding arm inside its body (Roborock figure). A laser sensor on top maps the room; when a sock is in the way, a hatch opens, the arm unfolds, the gripper grabs it and drops it in the basket, and the arm tucks away again before it keeps vacuuming.

The question, steps and idea are translated from the original site.

What it is

A home robot that uses sensors to decide: it maps the room with a laser, detects a sock, unfolds a gripper arm, picks it up and keeps vacuuming.

  • Visual Learning machine 40
  • Step-by-step and Auto mode
  • The inner parts are drawn as typical ones, according to the site

It is one of the newest Visual Learning machines and its author hasn’t said what he made it with.

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