PuppyPi Adds Robotic Arm For Manipulation
A developer retrofitted a HiWonder PuppyPi robot dog with a dedicated 2‑DOF robotic arm and ROS-based software to enable autonomous object search, grasping, and delivery in a recent project. Using Ubuntu/ROS, OpenCV vision to detect a bright red cube, a simple inverse-kinematics controller, and ROS actionlib, they implemented three demos—stationary grasping, autonomous search-and-transport, and voice-triggered 'Pick up the red cube'—showing low-cost mobile manipulation feasibility.
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