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.
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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…