Cute, affordable, an easy to assemble, humanoid robot kit. Comes with 12 servos and servo control board(Arduino compatible). Designed for Raspberry Pi and its camera module.
Looks small, acts large, its limitless possibilities all depends on how you program it.

*Doesn’t come with a Raspberry Pi and a Camera module.

RAPIRO comes with a total of 12 servo motors, one is neck, one is waist, four are two feet, six are two arms. Can walk with feet, Can grip a pen, Can turn its head and waist.

Torques of six servo motors of neck, waist and two feet, are 2.5kgf-cm(35ozf-in).
Torques of six servo motors of two arms are 1.5kgf-cm(21ozf-in).
Both operating speeds are 0.12 sec/60°. Both

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Will Jessop is a systems administrator for 37signals and he runs the North West Ruby User Group in Manchester. I bumped in to him recently and discovered he was working on a personal project with a Raspberry Pi. The aim of the project is to solve the problem of ping pong balls on the floor at the 37signals office in Chicago. The solution is a web-enabled robot with mounted camera allowing people to collect balls in to a basket.

The original version of the robot used the Custard Pi breakout, and then I suggested he looked at the MotorPiTX motor controller developed by Jason Barnett. He ordered one and joined Manchester Hackspace and began working on building or otherwise sourcing all the parts

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