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Open-source wheeled biped robot

by surmoi on 10/31/24, 12:21 PM with 9 comments

  • by mdaniel on 11/2/24, 12:13 AM

    Relevant: https://github.com/commaai/body#comma-body (I'm aware that the Comma Body just uses wheels, and thus differs from Upkie in that Upkie claims to support uneven terrains)

    I had no idea about https://github.com/stephane-caron/awesome-open-source-robots -- there's one of those for everything, I guess (and are also a just stunningly terrible way to distribute collections of links, IMHO, since creating Wikipedia pages is free and those can be edited by anyone with an account, versus the "open PR and pray" model of GitHub)

  • by i_am_a_squirrel on 11/4/24, 8:39 AM

    Wait, the BOM has 4 x Qdd100. And each Qdd100 is listed for like $500 USD. So these robots are $2000+ is that normal? I was hoping for a cheap DIY haha