Sowbot is an open robotics platform designed to scale regenerative agriculture by providing accessible, lightweight robotics to researchers and farmers. It aims to bridge the "prototype gap" in agricultural robotics with a Reference Hardware Design and a Production-Ready Software Stack. The system comprises an 'Open Core' compute unit with dedicated boards for control/safety and perception/AI, powered by open-source software like Lizard, RoSys, and DevKit ROS. Various platforms like Sowbot, Sowbot Mini, and Sowbot Pico cater to different development stages, all emphasizing modularity, open-hardware, and a commitment to sustainability.
We designed and built a 12 degree-of-freedom (3 servos per leg × 4 legs) quadruped robot controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico W, featuring integrated environmental sensing and a wireless WiFi controller. Starting from a custom CAD body and 3D-printed frame, the robot combines mechanical engineering and embedded electrical engineering to create a platform capable of coordinated four-legged locomotion, heading determination, environmental mapping, and target detection. In order to do so, our system leverages several sensors including an IMU, a solid state LiDAR sensor, and a contact-less infrared sensor.
Documentation for the Hiwonder SpiderPi Pro robotic arm, covering getting ready, quick user experience, remote desktop installation, PC software & programming, kinematics, AI visual recognition & tracking, AI visual transporting & kicking ball, group control, and network configuration.
SpiderPi Pro is an advanced hexapod robot integrated with AI vision and powered by Raspberry Pi. It features intelligent serial bus servos with a torque of 20KG, 5DOF robot arm, glowy ultrasonic sensor, IMU sensor and dot matrix module and can be programmed using Python. SpiderPi Pro serves as an ideal platform for conducting research in motion control for hexapod robots, machine vision, OpenCV, deep learning, and various other fields.
Sipeed’s MaixCAM2 is a powerful, open-source AI camera designed for makers, offering significant performance improvements over Raspberry Pi and OpenMV solutions. It features the Axera Tech AX630 AI SoC with up to 12.8 TOPS and supports training-free vision models and vision-language models.
ROSbot is a ROS powered 4x4 drive autonomous mobile robot platform equipped with LIDAR, RGB-D camera, IMU, encoders, distance sensors. Available in versions 3, 2R, 2 PRO, and 2.
This project walks you through building your own Inventory Robot that can automatically identify, organize, and track the components you use in your workspace. After finishing a prototype, placing every part back in the right spot can become time-consuming and difficult. This robot solves that by intelligently sorting and maintaining a clear inventory of your items.
