Poppy Humanoid
Poppy Humanoid is an 83 cm, 3D printed open source humanoid developed at the Inria Flowers team in Bordeaux by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer. It was created to study the role of body morphology in walking and became an education and art platform. Designs and the pypot software are fully open.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Research
- Category
- education
- First revealed
- 2014
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 83 cm
- Weight
- 3.5 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 25
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric, Dynamixel servos
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- no
Where it stands
Open source design maintained by the Poppy community; kits were sold by Generation Robots.
What stands out
- 3D printed open source humanoid
- Studied the role of morphology in walking
- Used in education and art projects
Autonomy, observed
Research on walking morphology and education; walking with light assistance
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: none
- Sensors: cameras, IMU
- Compute: single board computer
- AI stack: pypot Python library
Price and volume
kits cost several thousand euros
Built by many schools and labs from the open design
Open source
Creative Commons and GPL licences
Europe's humanoids: who builds them and what you can order
31 of the 182 humanoids on record come from seven European countries. Three can be ordered, two have a price, and the dearest of those is $75,000 for a robot that does not walk.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
Sources
- 01Poppy HumanoidPoppy Project
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