XYZrobot Bolide Y-01 Advanced Humanoid Robot DIY Kit

Overview

Build your own advanced humanoid robot with the Bolide Y-01 DIY kit from XYZrobot! It features 18 smart servos, each with 330° of effective position control, that allow it to perform a wide range of complex movements, including dancing, walking, and the ability to get back up from almost any lying position. The Bolide Y-01 robot is preprogrammed to perform many of these movements in response to commands from the included Bluetooth controller or a smartphone or tablet running the XYZrobot app, so it’s ready to do some amazing things as soon as you finish assembling it. Assembly typically takes between 5 and 10 hours; the following video gives an example of what the assembly process is like:

For those who want to take this robot beyond its preprogrammed routines, the Bolide Y-01 features an Arduino-compatible ATmega1280 microcontroller that can be programmed to perform new movements and actions with the Arduino IDE and the XYZrobot Editor. The control board includes a three-axis accelerometer for maintaining postural stability and detecting falls, and the robot also has a distance sensor in its chest that can detect objects in front of it.

Programming the XYZrobot Bolide Y-01 Advanced Humanoid Robot.

At the heart of the Bolide robot are its 18 A1-16 smart servos, which can produce up to 25 kg-cm of torque at 12 V. These highly configurable servos can be daisy-chained on a single bus and transmit temperature, speed, and position data back to the controller. Each servo include a four-color LED for displaying the servo’s status.

Videos

Getting up:

Push-ups:

Obstacle detection:

Group dancing:

XYZrobot Editor V1.0 tutorial: