Following on from my recent post discussing examples of walking robots, it became clear that a logical next step would be to look at how we can teach a robot to walk using simulators and reinforcem...

The biggest question I get asked when showing my bipedal robot to people is is “Does it walk?”. The answer is ‘no’, or rather, ‘not yet’. In order to understand the problem, we need to understand...

The Raspberry Pi 5 was announced last month and offers a number of improvements over the model currently used in the Modular Robotics Bipedal Robot project (The Pi 3B+). Let’s do a comparison to se...

Earlier in the year I was invited to speak about the Modular Robotics Framework on session 2 of the Reddit Robotics Showcase. This was a great opportunity to share the project with a wider audience...

Featured on Official Raspberry Pi News I was very excited to see that the Modular Biped project was featured on the official Raspberry Pi news page. This is a great honour and I’m very grateful to...

When I first started working on the modular biped project, I had a few features in mind. The way that the robot behaved would depend entirely on the sensors and actuators it had in it’s arsenal. Fo...

Disney Research has announced a new robot at IROS2023 that looks suspiciously like the BD-1 robot from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. This post from David Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich s...

As a maker that loves to show my projects to the world, one of the challenges I have always faced is understanding the best platform to do that. Many years ago I worked in web development. It was,...

Since the creation of version 3 of the modular robotics framework, this video covers an overview of the project and the history of each version. The project has evolved over the last few years and...