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Dream of building your own robot pets?
Countless efforts have been made to develop robots that look and behave like real pets, human's best friends. Yet quadruped robotic systems have been very complex and take a big upfront capital and lots of expertise to start. It was too difficult for individuals to get a dynamic walking robot in their hands.
Solution
OpenCat as the Solution
Goal: to easily develop quadruped robots by greatly lowering the cost and technical barriers
Solutions:
- use hobbyist servos as the joints
- arrange servos in an optimized body frame
- use low-cost popular hardware as the controller (Arduino or Raspberry Pi, etc.)
- efficient and open source control codes for vivid motion tasks
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commercial robots
Commercial Robots Powered by OpenCat
OpenCat has been deployed on Petoi's mass-produced palm-sized, realistic lifelike robot cat Nybble and robot dog Bittle that can run, walk, and self-balance like a real animal. We've successfully crowdfunded these two robots and brought them to thousands of users from 60+ countries.
DIY Robots Based on OpenCat
Many DIY versions of OpenCat-based robots have been developed in the worldwide community.
Dream of building your own robot pets?
Why Do We Share via Open Source?
- to foster collaboration in the motion and AI of affordable quadruped robots with more users and developers
- to bring STEM & robotics concepts to the mass and inspire newcomers (including a lot of kids)
- to join the robotic AI revolution to modulate the functionalities of a complex system
history
How OpenCat Started
People have been amazed by the versatility of Boston Dynamics Dogs since their viral demo in 2015. In 2016, Petoi's founder & CEO Rongzhong Li started the OpenCat project with robotic pet prototypes in his dorm room. After one year of R&D, he founded Petoi LLC and devoted all his resources to the startup.