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The following is a draft for an article on the Dorna robot arm.

Dorna (robotic arm)

Dorna is the flagship product of the company Dorna Robotics. It originated in 2017 as a KickStarter project by brothers Hossein and Sadegh Tabatabaei to create "an affordable industrial grade 5-axis robotic arm".

It is notable as one of the first 5-axis robotic arms with a large payload, wide reach, high repeatability yet a price sufficiently low that it could be purchased and used by makers, students and researchers (instead of a purely industrial setting like most robot arms).

It has open source firmware and software, is coded in Python, uses a g2core board and has several end effector options. These include a camera holder, gripper, laser engraver and a pen holder.

Thus, its current applications include writing, grasping and manipulation tasks, filming and laser engraving.

It currently supports a Windows API, but development is being made on MacOS and Linux-based APIs.

Dorna is a significant step towards making professional robotic solutions available to the general public