Preview of the new Nybble Q from Petoi
Nybble robot gets an upgrade
Petoi’s Nybble robot is getting an upgrade, the upcoming Nybble Q robot. The release preview of Nybble Q is up on Petoi’s website. Petoi mentions that the new robot will be out for release in Q2 2025, and is already taking school orders. We were able to get an early access version of Nybble Q from Petoi. This post summarizes our experience after playing with Nybble Q for a week.
Petoi’s robots
First, a history of Petoi robots. Nybble was the first robot designed by Petoi founder Rongzhong Li, some of it designed while he was doing his Ph.D. at Wake Forest University. This video summarizes how Nybble was built and works. Nybble is built of a wooden frame, models a pet cat, and supports the original Arduino compatible Nyboard microcontroller.
After releasing Nybble, Petoi used the experience and learnings from Nybble, to build the Bittle robot, modelled after a pet dog. Since then, the Bittle robot has been getting all the hardware research and development updates from Petoi, such as a…