Robots that fit none of the other types. 49 robots on Robotheca, each with its licenses and its source on GitHub.
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A 3D-printed bipedal robot about 42 cm tall, inspired by Disney's BDX droids, that walks with reinforcement-learning policies trained in MuJoCo.
A toolkit for cable-driven robots that move objects through the air, built from 3D-printed cable drums on industrial servo motors, made for art installations.
A six-legged hexapod robot built from 3D-printed parts, driven by 18 MG996 servos and controlled by a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Servo2040 board.
An ultra-low-cost self-balancing robot that can run a neural network to stay balanced and be controlled wirelessly, built for teaching RL, ML, AI and control.
A modular two-wheel self-balancing robot driven by gimbal BLDC motors and the SimpleFOC library.
A small bipedal walking robot controlled by an M5Stack board, with a sliding battery that shifts its balance between legs.
A four-bar linkage wheel-leg robot designed for a full-stack robotics development challenge using ROS 2, CAD, and embedded systems.
A spherical robot that balances and maneuvers in three degrees of freedom using three orthogonal flywheels and a omnidirectional wheel base.
A small, 3D printed robot that solves a Rubik's cube autonomously on a Raspberry Pi.
A low-cost, easy-to-print biped robot hardware design remixed from the Open Robot Dynamic Initiative Bolt robot, controlled by the Dagor brushless motor control module.
MABEL is an open-source legged balancing robot based on the Boston Dynamics Handle, with articulated legs that can adjust height and balance in multiple axes.
A low-cost, modular open-source soft robotics platform with tendon-driven continuum robots controlled by force-feedback actuators over serial and I2C.
A minimalist underactuated brachiating robot that swings along a horizontal ladder bar using one quasi-direct drive actuator and passive grippers.
A research continuum robot with 4 degrees of freedom that drives two tendons per antagonistic pair with a single servo and measures tendon force with load cells.
A low-cost, small inverted pendulum robot using DengFOC motor driver and SimpleFOC for balance control.
A JavaScript-driven, super-kawaii desktop robot built on the M5Stack platform, with open-source firmware, MODs, and printable cases.
An open-source AI-powered smart children's electric car designed for parent-child co-creation and maker education.
A family of 18-DOF, 3D-printed hexapod walking robots powered by an ESP32, controlled over WiFi or live pose streaming.
A six-legged hexapod robot with 18 servo joints, controlled from a mobile phone over Bluetooth Low Energy by a Linkit 7697 board.
A two-wheeled, four-bar-linkage wheel-leg balancing robot modeled on the ASCENTO, controlled with LQR on an STM32H723 board.
A low-budget three-servo hexapod robot that walks, dances and avoids obstacles using infrared proximity sensors.
An open-source adaptive two-finger gripper designed for low-cost, high-performance robotic applications.
A 3D-printed micro-servo hexapod robot controlled by a Raspberry Pi Zero, with an STM32F103 handling leg locomotion and inverse kinematics for its 18 servos.
A biomimetic butterfly robot controlled via ESP32C3 using ESP-NOW wireless communication.
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