It’s more like an animatronic. So It won’t be picking up anything, but waving its arms around and gesticulating like C3PO (hopefully). 
I also found a couple other projects that also use blender, but not ROS:
and
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2k0QJ-y8y-6ak5WeGh3cVVDdEk/edit
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2k0QJ-y8y-6bWpRSGh0QzVjSlE
I got the hackaday project working with a couple hobby servos, but I I’m not good enough with python to be able to figure out how to get Blender to work with ROS.