UC Berkeley AI (BAIR) Lab: LEGO

Overview

I toured the UC Berkeley AI Lab (BAIR) during the spring of my Junior year and was very impressed by the robots and research there. Later, after that summer, BAIR needed over 250 3D-printed parts (referred to as “toys”) to train robots on a new, generalizable grasping method for complex objects. A friend at BAIR, knowing my experience, recommended me for the task, and I was excited to support the project.

I utilized the extensive 3D printing experience gained from FTC to set up a print farm to print 278 toys in less than 2 months. All parts were printed out of PLA. You can check out their research paper and more information here.

Print Farm

The print farm was comprised of 8 Bambu Lab P1Ps and 1 X1C. All printers had their default 0.4mm nozzles swapped out for 0.6mm nozzles for faster printing speeds. I managed all printers through Bambu Studio and transferred all the sliced files to the Bambu Farm Manager to run them all 24/7. All 278 toys were kept track of and assigned a color on this centralized spreadsheet.