Thank you! This is by far the best (low cost) open source quadruped I have seen to date. Just because a robotic platform is low cost doesn't mean it has to skimp on software features. Oddly enough I have been cobbling together various open source ideas into something that can actually run ROS Noetic with simulation, trainability and firmware extensibility in mind. IMO there's two main camps in robotic design which are the mechanical and computational aspects and this project didn't skimp on either. Wonderfully executed, thank you so much!!
All jokes for the somewhat rehearsed presentations aside (that by the way greatly handle the amount of details and were professionally talked through and produced), congratulations on this amazing robotic platform and thoughtful details. Flipping the fans, carrying handle, emergency stop, simultaneously simulating while operating the robot, just three servos per leg, expandability.. it just blows my mind how many things you have achieved. Well done!
@@nathanferguson6248 No dig at you guys, but you might want to consider hiring a talent to do the presentation next time. You're obviously amazing developers for this product, but there are other people who I bet will be just as amazing presenting it to the public.
This was made primarily for a university assessment and the video was uploaded here as an extra. If we got someone else to present we would fail the assesment😂
I don't know much about robotics, but it's cool to see you guys filling a niche for student researchers. Great work, and love how detailed you are about specs and limitations!
Excellent job! I'm excited not only for this initial release, but all subsequent releases in the open-hardware community built on this fantastic platform. Great job team, and thank you for supporting open hardware.
Great project! I love the fact you not only thought of the higher principles (keeping the weight off the legs - much like on an off-load buggy or F1 car you take the brakes (weight) inboard and make the wheels as light as possible to be able to react faster) but also the smaller principles, ease of use, access to ports, use of magnets to make parts easy to move and accessible, and safety with the cut-off switch (also does anyone actually code in Asimovs 3 laws of robotics so they cant kill us? or do they forget or just assume someone else puts them in there?!?!?) - its often the little touches that make a great design, well done and congrats
Thank you so much for releasing this project. I’ve started mine and it’s early stages but can’t wait to get it assembled and start exploring the software side of this. The idea that anyone can download the CAD files, 3D print, order a few parts and start working on this is incredible. Plus expanding would be easy since you can quickly and easily make your own top plates. The design of the servo carries and inboard dual servos with the linkage is equally impressive. Thank you so much!
@@nathanferguson6248 the one question I have is about the shoulder carriers. In the CAD there’s a heat insert on the side without the servo horn, but no bolt. Is there supposed to be a bolt that threads into there to support the opposite side of that carriage? If so there is a gap is that gap intended to have a spacer? Or is it just held in position directly by the servo horn on the opposite side? Also I agree with others this project needs a community. Facebook group, forums, or discord something to allow all of us to communicate about builds, enhancements, and questions. Again thank you so much.
@@kdemotorsports You are right, there should be an M4 x16mm (or it may be 20mm I can't remember atm) bold that goes through here, I may have neglected to add it to the model, but it should screw into an M4 heat set inset that is mounted in the motor hub on the other side. THis should be tightened enough to provide a solid pivot point but not enough to provide lateral force. Thread-locking glue is essential here. Not a great part of the design tbh I'm sure it could be improved.
What a great looking build!! Now I have another project that I absolutely don't have time for LOL. That being said, I've already downloaded the CAD and cloned the repo so we'll see where it goes. Congrats Alexander and Nathan on knocking it out of the park on your studies and publishing your work. This is so much more accessible than the whitepaper, tucked away in some some conference proceedings, of old. Contribution to the art and science achieved!!
open source robots have been around for decades now... that's not to detract from their work, that's mostly to drive home the point that, yeah... you're out of touch.
Congrats on a brilliant project and a well-produced presentation! This is some inspiring work, I hope you’re recognised accordingly both academically and professionally.
Thankyou! Unfortunately, there won't be any more videos on this project because we have handed it to the next students to work on as we have graduated, however, I've added the bill of materials and cost breakdown to the GitHub repo now.
@BOA2 do you have interest in diving more in here? I do as well. I'd like to start to 3D print the parts @nathanferguson6248 Any tips on finding the instructions for 3D printing the parts. Do you model files already stl exported with material instructions anywhere you could place, or I didn't find them so far. the BOM is wonderful there which is nice for all the other components.
Amazing accomplishment! I can tell you put in a lot of work into this, and really appreciate when work like this is available for others to use as well. As a robotics software engineer that's worked on tracking and SLAM I would worry about a raspberry pi having enough compute to be useful for robotics algorithms, and I didn't hear anything about sensors to understand the environment. This is definitely a great start point though for others to build on, great work!
@@timaidley7801 Sure did! Although Sony tried to be hostile to tinkerers for the first couple years. They filed a DMCA complaint against people who had open sourced software for it back in 2001. Luckily they backpedaled, but oof. Nice to see open-source first mentality.
I am seeking to ascertain whether there are any issues with a servo having an angle of 120° to 140°? This is due to the fact that the shopping list specifies a servo with an angle of 180°.
very interesting "product", would love to see some more about it in the future, especially how it performs in the wild, if they keep their promise of a 1500$ price point im definetly getting one
I had wondered about the feasibility of putting more of the motors on a walker inboard (via cable in my case) for weight and inertia reasons, but wasn't really sure how one would go about it. Apparently that works pretty well!. Honesrly if you don't mind printing it yourself or being willing to replace the odd cooked servo, this looks achievable for a lot less than $1,500.
Good idea but i think the main challenge is not the software. Its the battery capacity and size. Guide dogs need to be able to remain operational for atleast half a day and can be charged to full overnight.
Awesome work, this looks great! Are the servos position, velocity or torque controllable? By the way, Michael and I were in the same lab when we were PhD students, so it was was a nice surprise to hear his name at the end there! I’m happy to see he’s still working on cool stuff.
Hi James, Nathan pointed me to this comment - small world! Hope all is well! Think these are just position controlled, but fast enough to make it slightly less noticeable.
Cool stuff..Giving Clearpath Robotics and others a bump..We would love to see this enter the commercial markets for end-users to utilize.Great work Alexander and Nathan!💪🙏..The Mining industry are now seeing the importance or Robotics to use in underground environment and seeing varying products entering the Industry turns heads wit WOW..This product has ptential to bid there too!
Fabulous work, well presented. I wish you both the best in your future edeavours. Can't wait to see how AI could be used to control a Dingo for simple tasks. (e..g simple security guard type of stuff). It's interesting how you only managed 25 minutes of active motion. That might be enough for a lap or two around a building! Where are the areas that you'd work on increasing the efficiency of the motors used?
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What amazing robots. They still feel a bit robotic, so there's room for improvement. I'm just blown away at how human they look when talking.
that took a humorous turn...
Still no black robot
@@zaidakhtar3093 yes there are lol.
You legend
😂😂
This is the best quadruped that I've seen in years and it's OpenSource!! It will improve with the community's work, this is amazing!
Thank you!
Is this the best??? Really??
errr ok
@@raguavivanaah
Dual motor limb leg design is absolutely brilliant . Good works guys .
This is really impressive. Great work guys.
Thank you! This is by far the best (low cost) open source quadruped I have seen to date. Just because a robotic platform is low cost doesn't mean it has to skimp on software features. Oddly enough I have been cobbling together various open source ideas into something that can actually run ROS Noetic with simulation, trainability and firmware extensibility in mind. IMO there's two main camps in robotic design which are the mechanical and computational aspects and this project didn't skimp on either. Wonderfully executed, thank you so much!!
Thank you for all your supporters and for your hard-work to make this available to everyone
All jokes for the somewhat rehearsed presentations aside (that by the way greatly handle the amount of details and were professionally talked through and produced), congratulations on this amazing robotic platform and thoughtful details. Flipping the fans, carrying handle, emergency stop, simultaneously simulating while operating the robot, just three servos per leg, expandability.. it just blows my mind how many things you have achieved. Well done!
Thankyou very much!
@@nathanferguson6248 No dig at you guys, but you might want to consider hiring a talent to do the presentation next time.
You're obviously amazing developers for this product, but there are other people who I bet will be just as amazing presenting it to the public.
This was made primarily for a university assessment and the video was uploaded here as an extra. If we got someone else to present we would fail the assesment😂
@@nathanferguson6248 Well that makes perfect sense, thanks for explaining. In that case, you guys totally crushed it. Kudos!
Never trust a skinny cook; or an engineer who isn't socially awkward.
I don't know much about robotics, but it's cool to see you guys filling a niche for student researchers. Great work, and love how detailed you are about specs and limitations!
Excellent job! I'm excited not only for this initial release, but all subsequent releases in the open-hardware community built on this fantastic platform. Great job team, and thank you for supporting open hardware.
Simply awesome, exactly what i was looking for since years. Many thanks for Sharing.
I am years old
Thankyou!
I appreciate you keeping this thing a reasonable size and made from smashable materials. Excellent work on the robot bits too!
Open source is awesome. Well done 👍 ...... Good work 🙂
Great project! I love the fact you not only thought of the higher principles (keeping the weight off the legs - much like on an off-load buggy or F1 car you take the brakes (weight) inboard and make the wheels as light as possible to be able to react faster) but also the smaller principles, ease of use, access to ports, use of magnets to make parts easy to move and accessible, and safety with the cut-off switch (also does anyone actually code in Asimovs 3 laws of robotics so they cant kill us? or do they forget or just assume someone else puts them in there?!?!?) - its often the little touches that make a great design, well done and congrats
Thank you so much for releasing this project. I’ve started mine and it’s early stages but can’t wait to get it assembled and start exploring the software side of this. The idea that anyone can download the CAD files, 3D print, order a few parts and start working on this is incredible. Plus expanding would be easy since you can quickly and easily make your own top plates. The design of the servo carries and inboard dual servos with the linkage is equally impressive. Thank you so much!
Awesome! Excited to hear how it goes
@@nathanferguson6248 the one question I have is about the shoulder carriers. In the CAD there’s a heat insert on the side without the servo horn, but no bolt. Is there supposed to be a bolt that threads into there to support the opposite side of that carriage? If so there is a gap is that gap intended to have a spacer? Or is it just held in position directly by the servo horn on the opposite side? Also I agree with others this project needs a community. Facebook group, forums, or discord something to allow all of us to communicate about builds, enhancements, and questions. Again thank you so much.
@@kdemotorsports You are right, there should be an M4 x16mm (or it may be 20mm I can't remember atm) bold that goes through here, I may have neglected to add it to the model, but it should screw into an M4 heat set inset that is mounted in the motor hub on the other side. THis should be tightened enough to provide a solid pivot point but not enough to provide lateral force. Thread-locking glue is essential here. Not a great part of the design tbh I'm sure it could be improved.
@@nathanferguson6248hey! You guys have any plans for a open source humanoid robot project?
This is amazing, I can't wait to see a larger one with a bigger carry capacity once it is worked out in the future!
I still believe in a future with farmer robot dogs
You did a great work! I'm pretty sure it's gonna inspire a lot of people and be used as a learning framework. Thank you.
Well done Nathan and Alex!
What a great looking build!! Now I have another project that I absolutely don't have time for LOL. That being said, I've already downloaded the CAD and cloned the repo so we'll see where it goes. Congrats Alexander and Nathan on knocking it out of the park on your studies and publishing your work. This is so much more accessible than the whitepaper, tucked away in some some conference proceedings, of old. Contribution to the art and science achieved!!
I am a bad sci fi writer, because I did NOT see open-source robots coming. Great job, folks!
open source robots have been around for decades now... that's not to detract from their work, that's mostly to drive home the point that, yeah... you're out of touch.
Congrats on a brilliant project and a well-produced presentation! This is some inspiring work, I hope you’re recognised accordingly both academically and professionally.
Nicely done! Thanks for making all those files available!
Truly amazing product, thank you for making it open source and all the best for your future!
You guys are amazing. Thank you for making this available to us.
Awesome work guys! Genuinely interested how this evolves in the future. :)
Well done! That really is a big contribution to the OS Robotics community. It even looks cool!
Open source the future! Love it, great work people!
The potential for reinforcement learning is very exciting, great work team
Such a fascinating robotic project. I'm impressed by the leg linkage design.
Great work team, awesome contribution to the open source community.
That's really nice! The high entry cost is what kept me away from dog robots. The other researchers in my lab are gonna love this
Great work guys! This is better than the alternative out there and it's open source. Simply incredible! Thank you!
Awesome and good job. This needs more attention!
Outstanding work gentlemen. Sure to be used by many going forward.
This is amazing! I would love a build guide if possible and a further breakdown of the costs.
Thankyou! Unfortunately, there won't be any more videos on this project because we have handed it to the next students to work on as we have graduated, however, I've added the bill of materials and cost breakdown to the GitHub repo now.
@@nathanferguson6248 real quick question does the BoM have any parts drawings or something?
@@nathanferguson6248imho you guys should consider expanding into the research/academic field after such an awsome feat ❤
@BOA2 do you have interest in diving more in here? I do as well.
I'd like to start to 3D print the parts
@nathanferguson6248
Any tips on finding the instructions for 3D printing the parts. Do you model files already stl exported with material instructions anywhere you could place, or I didn't find them so far.
the BOM is wonderful there which is nice for all the other components.
@@nathanferguson6248 paper launch. "We made this great thing!" someone asks "great can i learn anything more" response "Nope sorry we dropped it" lol
Nice work guys and thanks for sharing the project!
Applause! Applause! Plenty of optimization and flexibility. Those leg movement optimizations are fascinating.
Amazing accomplishment! I can tell you put in a lot of work into this, and really appreciate when work like this is available for others to use as well. As a robotics software engineer that's worked on tracking and SLAM I would worry about a raspberry pi having enough compute to be useful for robotics algorithms, and I didn't hear anything about sensors to understand the environment. This is definitely a great start point though for others to build on, great work!
I was already thinking about adding cheap sonar to the front of mine. All kinds of possibilities.
Awesome project, a vlog during the dev process would've been a gold mine of details for students.
Thank you for releasing your files publicly!
amazing work! and good on yous for open sourcing it :) cheers from UoN
what an amazing step on democratizing robotics research and usage
amazing feat! 👏👏👏
Great work fellas! Dingo is the perfect name for it too
i hope later on this project wont die nice work , GOOD JOB
Thats a beautiful machine. Nice job guys
WOW! Great job guys!!! Amazing project.
You have indeed done something significant. Excellent work.
while i cant think of anything useful to do with that thing, i am a fan of the engineering and opensourceness of it! gj guys! ;)
then I guess you're not in a robotics class. this is designed to teach robotics to students.
@@error.418 very true, no robotics class for me. :)
Great work, guys. I hope your linkedin is on fire right now.
That gazebo addition is a nice bonus also.
That's some really neat design, I love the fact that you used off the shelf parts.
awesome work lads!
I'm impressed. And thankful for the YT algo to have pushed this vid to my stream.
Bill of materials: $300 of printable parts, $100 for servos and $1100 for the rpi
😂 Ouch, but too true 😂
They did a great job designing the Dingo.
Awesome work this is so cool!!
I liked the name, even more for the projects... proud to be a Monash
That is a great little robot! Well done
Awesome project!!! Love it
Good to see Aussies keeping the country in the technology game.
Great work guys. This will speed up work on walking robots.
Well done. I totally want one!
Thanks for share your work. I hope build this robot in my university, looks very impressive 👏
"Boston Dynamics wowed the world with the first commercially available robot dog, Spot."
Sony AIBO enters the chat
Heh, yeah, they forgot the key detail of "industrial robot dog"
@@error.418 I just realized AIBO probably came out before they were born
@@timaidley7801 Sure did! Although Sony tried to be hostile to tinkerers for the first couple years. They filed a DMCA complaint against people who had open sourced software for it back in 2001. Luckily they backpedaled, but oof. Nice to see open-source first mentality.
Impressed man!! Amazing Work.
Very impressive design. Nice work!
Some people talk, you guys do. Well done and thank you.
I am seeking to ascertain whether there are any issues with a servo having an angle of 120° to 140°? This is due to the fact that the shopping list specifies a servo with an angle of 180°.
Awesome work fellas, that's really cool!
Dingo looks cool
Incredible engineering guys! Well done 👏
That sht's dingo! Congrats guys!
This project is great, we are considering it to upload on our platform of opensource robotics where it can gain more reach and help other people
this is such a big step forwards. Great work!
Great work guys 👍
Amazing work!
You guys have turned my dream into reality. ❤❤❤❤
This is some cool stuff guys. Well done!
Super cool! I could see some interesting cyber security experiments with this thing.
Outstanding! Fantastic work! Thank you for sharing this.
very interesting "product", would love to see some more about it in the future, especially how it performs in the wild, if they keep their promise of a 1500$ price point im definetly getting one
Amazing work ! Gg to the team ❤
I had wondered about the feasibility of putting more of the motors on a walker inboard (via cable in my case) for weight and inertia reasons, but wasn't really sure how one would go about it. Apparently that works pretty well!. Honesrly if you don't mind printing it yourself or being willing to replace the odd cooked servo, this looks achievable for a lot less than $1,500.
This is amazing! I've had an idea to use robotic dogs as guide dogs. With voice synthesis, the robotic guide talk can talk to owner and others.
Good idea but i think the main challenge is not the software. Its the battery capacity and size. Guide dogs need to be able to remain operational for atleast half a day and can be charged to full overnight.
@@RG-hx8uc good point. Hopefully AI brings a battery breakthrough soon. :)
Great Job! I’ve followed a few builders (x-robots for one) your design looks accessible I think 👍👍
Congratulations! This is really useful.
starting to build my army of bodyguard dingos to protect me from boston dynamics exterminator dogs
Great job fellas, amazing use of the tools available.
Awesome work, this looks great! Are the servos position, velocity or torque controllable? By the way, Michael and I were in the same lab when we were PhD students, so it was was a nice surprise to hear his name at the end there! I’m happy to see he’s still working on cool stuff.
Hi James, Nathan pointed me to this comment - small world! Hope all is well! Think these are just position controlled, but fast enough to make it slightly less noticeable.
Amazing work! Would love to make my own someday
Cool stuff..Giving Clearpath Robotics and others a bump..We would love to see this enter the commercial markets for end-users to utilize.Great work Alexander and Nathan!💪🙏..The Mining industry are now seeing the importance or Robotics to use in underground environment and seeing varying products entering the Industry turns heads wit WOW..This product has ptential to bid there too!
You are joking right? This thing cannot even walk
Its best feature is the capability to be manipulated with a Play Station controller. One of the smartest moves I've seen in Product Development.
Great work making it.
Totally grabbing one of these!
I watched the entire vid so youtube would get this to the masses
Nice Work!!!! Very Impressive
That's no dingo! It didn't take my child away and eat it! :P Cool effort and hats off team!
I think the dingo ate your robot...
That was great! Nice work.
looks awesome, looking forward to tinkering with this
Fabulous work, well presented. I wish you both the best in your future edeavours. Can't wait to see how AI could be used to control a Dingo for simple tasks. (e..g simple security guard type of stuff). It's interesting how you only managed 25 minutes of active motion. That might be enough for a lap or two around a building! Where are the areas that you'd work on increasing the efficiency of the motors used?
Awesome job guys