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BLUE WORM just unveiled Mantis Standard. Detach an arm for your desk, build a dual-arm workstation, or add the mobile base and lift for a wheeled humanoid.
The arms, base, lift and head use mechanical and electrical quick-connects. Change the configuration, keep the same robot brain: BW-Brain.
The full 1.4 m build has 22 degrees of freedom, a rated 7 kg payload per arm and 550 mm of vertical lift.
It supports ROS 2, Isaac Sim and LeRobot, with compatibility for π0.5, ACT and SmolVLA.
You can simulate a task, collect VR demonstrations, fine-tune a policy and deploy it on the hardware. For a small lab, reusing those components and development tools could mean fewer separate rigs to buy and less integration work.