Stringman open-source gripper robot launches
The gist
Builder Nathaniel Nifong's Stringman hangs a gripper from ceiling cables to tidy rooms, priced at $795 on its site.
It targets floors too cluttered for wheeled robots, and its design is open source.
How it unfolded
- Jul 6, 2026heise reports on Stringman as a permanently installed open-source robot designed to tidy individual rooms.
- Nov 3, 2026A Hacker News post titled "Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot" is submitted by nharada, drawing 26 points and 3 comments.
- Nov 3, 2026The Hacker News 50 account posts the Stringman story on X, linking neufangled.com and the Hacker News item.