Tatbot

Tatbot is an open robotics project for exploring robot-assisted tattoo design and placement. This site documents public technical interfaces: simulation, teleoperation, vision concepts, Inkmap, contribution workflow, and safety scope.

Scope

The public project is a research and software collaboration. It is not a tattooing service, medical device, or authorization to operate a robot around a person. Use simulation or an instrumented non-human fixture while developing.

Start here

• Overview and installation

• Run the simulation

• For artists: design and placement data

• Turn placement words into a body location with InkLang

• For developers: architecture

• Contributing

• Work: worktrees, landing, the sweeper

Public systems

• Robot model and kinematics

• Teleoperation

• Vision and fiducials

• Printable seeded stencil frames

• Stencil design bench (tier 0)

• Rig sleep and wake

• Fleet deploy, releases and services

• Imitation-learning interfaces

• Inkmap preview

• Designs from images, headless

• DrawingBotV3 stroke experiments

• InkLang placement grounding

• Tools and configuration

• Bill of materials

• Run-log format

Safety and reference

• Safety scope

• Hardware e-stop contract

• Command-line reference

• Configuration

• Documentation style

• Release notes