Robotis Bioloid


The ROBOTIS BIOLOID is a hobbyist and educational robot kit produced by the Korean robot manufacturer ROBOTIS. The BIOLOID platform consists of components and small, modular servomechanisms called the AX-12A Dynamixels, which can be used in a daisy-chained fashion to construct robots of various configurations, such as wheeled, legged, or humanoid robots. The Robot is programmed with RoboPlus - C language based software solution. The Bioloid system is thus comparable to the LEGO Mindstorms and VEXplorer kits.

Types of ROBOTIS BIOLOID kits

There are multiple variations of the Bioloid kit:
, announced in 2016 and developed in collaboration with ROBOTIS and the Open Source Robotics Foundation, is the smallest and cheapest of the TurtleBots.
Other ROBOTIS platforms include: ROBOTIS OP 2, ROBOTIS Manipulator and ThorMang3.

TB3 Plugins for Gazebo

has TurtleBot3 plugins for the Gazebo Robotics simulator that will let you simulate a TB3 Burger, Waffle, or Waffle Pi.

Applications

The platform is currently in use by the U.S. Naval Academy in their Mechanical Engineering courses, and is also popular in the RoboCup international robotics competition and FIRA competition.
YearCountryApplicationWork by
2007UKBioloid based Humanoid Soccer Robot DesignJoerg Wolf, University of Plymouth
2014IranBioloid used to teach children how to prayAkbar Rezaie, schoolteacher
2014USAExtra Pair of FingersMIT
2016UnknownBioloid/Dynamixel planar biped robot, Matlab control - simple movementsdeDasil