Outline:
- Problem
- Solution and Product
- How to buy it?
- What's Mini Pupper's value?
- Open source: DIY what your custom robot dog
- Software custom
- Hardware custom
- What’s More
- ROS: A Dynamic System that You Can Keep Developing
- SLAM
- Navigation
- AI: OpenCV
- Open source: DIY what your custom robot dog
- Why does Mini Pupper Stand Out?
- How to use it?
- How to Build?
- About us
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Mini Pupper 2 is already launched on Kickstarter till Dec. 11, 2022.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336477435/mini-pupper-2-open-source-ros2-robot-kit-for-dreamers

Mini Pupper will make robotics easier for schools, homeschool families, enthusiasts and beyond.
- ROS: support ROS SLAM&Navigation robot dog at a low-cost price, endorsed by ROS.
- OpenCV: support OpenCV official OAK-D-Lite 3D camera module, working with OpenCV&Luxonis RobotHub team to do more interesting features.
- Open-source: DIY and custom what you want, won a HackadayPrize!
- Raspberry Pi: it’s super expandable, endorsed by Raspberry Pi.

Mini Pupper latest news:
- The sense think act interview, a technical podcast about all areas of robotics that is hosted by Audrow Nash and sponsored by Open Robotics.
- Instructions for Amazon AWS Robotics Blog, please refer to here.

- Mini Pupper had a workshop on Amazon 2022 re:MARS event in June. For the instructions, please refer to here.
- Mini Pupper was reviewed by Raspberry Pi magazine in late Junly.
- Mini Pupper had a workshop on ROScon 2022 in Oct.
Mini Pupper was shown both on the first page of Kickstarter and Makuake campaign platform, and got many backers!

Mini Pupper will have a workshop on ROScon 2022 in Oct.


Problem
There is no ROS, open-source robot dog platform to study at less than $1,000USD.
You maybe see many demos from Boston Dynamics Spot Mini, many guys want to own their own robot dog to explore the functions, but the price is too high to accept, and it is not easy to explore the robot dog features.TurtleBot is very convenient for wheeled robot study, but not legged robots.
Solution and Product
Beginning 2020, we shipped many Stanford Pupper units worldwide. After such global success with Pupper, we took to heart all the feedback from this endeavor. What do our customers want in our products? What kind of products do they like? After more than 11 months pursuing these requests, we would like to show you what we came up with. Mini Pupper!
Mini Pupper is the open-source robot dog platform that supports ROS SLAM, Navigation, and OpenCV AI features with Lidar, camera, and other sensors. It's really a Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Dog in the Palm and legged "TurtleBot" for study at less than $500USD.
Mini Pupper will make robotics easier for schools, homeschool families, enthusiasts, and beyond.
How to Purchase
If you purchase the parts yourself one by one, it’ll run you about $800 and more time. However, you can purchase a kit to build the robot on Tindie.
What's Mini Pupper's value?
Open source: DIY what your custom robot dog
In June 2021, MangDang released Mini Pupper on the Stanford Pupper website in collaboration with Nathan Kau, the original creator of Stanford Pupper, to bring to market a commercial and reasonably priced educational quadruped robot that anyone could engagingly use for fun robotics research and experiments.
- Software custom
Gait Performance
You can use Mini Pupper to explore many gait performances, such as Trot (diagonal pairs), Pace (lateral pairs), and the Bound (front and rear pairs).

Facial Animation
You can easily custom your own facial animation, mechanical shell, and your own algorithms, we will supply enough guide documents and videos to make it easy. Here are three preset animations, you can change and make your own set with just one click!

- Hardware custom
You can DIY and customize a UNIQUE MiniPupper...
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