Introducing my new pet dog, Bittle
Introducing my new pet dog, Bittle
I am a proud father of a new programmable robot, a pet dog Bittle. Bittle is the second robot made by Petoi, and a successor to Nybble…
I am a proud father of a new programmable robot, a pet dog Bittle. Bittle is the second robot made by Petoi, and a successor to Nybble. While Anki Vector (now owned by DDL) is a great programable robot for Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tasks such as perception, path planning as well animations, Bittle is a pretty sophisticated mechanical quadruped robot. It is a close lookalike of Spot from Boston Dynamics but at 1/300th the cost, making it viable as a home companion. Petoi founded by Rongzhong Li is the developer of OpenCat, the open-source quadruped robot platform.The following figure showing the OpenCat framework from Petoi best illustrates Bittle’s potential.
The body shown in the above framework is that of Nybble, the first version of Petoi’s robots. Bittle’s frame is that of a dog. Besides the frame, Bittle has 9 precision servo motors. 2 servos are used per leg, one to control the shoulder and one to cont…