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🤖 From Tesla Bots to DIY Franken-Robots
In a few years, buying a robot might feel like buying a car, you go to Tesla (or another brand), pick your model, sign the contract… and a shiny humanoid rolls into your house ready to work, dance, cook, or clean, powered by serious AI.
But that’s only half the fun. The real chaos starts when people begin “modding” these robots the way gamers mod PCs.
Picture this: you order a legit humanoid robot from Tesla, then jump on Alibaba at 3 a.m. and fill your cart with random “upgrades”, extra sensors, weird robotic arms, laser pointers, microphones, 3D-printed grippers, maybe a sketchy camera module that ships with no manual and broken English in the listing then
you go to YouTube, search “How to add a third arm to Tesla Bot,” and follow a 27‑minute video from a guy in his garage who swears “this is totally safe, I’ve only blown the fuse twice.”
You open access panels, plug in mystery cables, zip-tie brackets where they definitely weren’t meant to go, then flash some community-made firmware that unlocks hidden features the official company doesn’t want to support.
Now your “normal” home robot has a DIY arm that hands you snacks, controls your smart lights, or sprays water at your friends when they walk into your room.This future would create a new culture.
People flexing their modded robots in videos the way they flex custom keyboards, communities running robotics build nights where everyone brings their bots and weird Alibaba parts.
A black market of “do not try this at home” mods coming soon!
-Jordi Lopez
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🤖 From Tesla Bots to DIY Franken-Robots
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