Update on Cub's progress.

The frame is just about complete. Upper forelimbs  are built very much like Cardware, a trough of plastic with bearers to hold the servos in place.

It just moulds round the servos from flat sheet.

Thats all the body servos in place, just needs some adjustments...

And banana sensing equipment...

Mmm, nice, very organic. Pity I cant do this with bamboo and my bear hands. ;-)

I think it's childproof, I can stand on it in my boots and it doesnt even have skin on yet, six inches of wadding will make that impervious to accidental damage.

Polythene tube over the limbs from freezer-bags, gathered and hot-glued to the frame will completely waterproof it, same with the electronics including the Echo Dot. How the differential mics will respond to this remains to be seen, but I can add polystyrene to the bulk of the body and head to give it bouyancy so it floats too.

A totally waterproof skin is pretty impractical, but I can keep liquid out of the innards, and with a removable and washable fur over siliconed cloth, muddy puddles and being left out in the rain dont scare me any more than fizzy drinks or being pissed on by a baby. It happens...

Made me think though.