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Open-source wheeled biped robots

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Build and control wheeled biped robots that can balance and navigate uneven surfaces using off-the-shelf components.

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Open-source wheeled biped robots

upkie has 387 stars on GitHub. It has been forked 53 times. upkie is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2022. upkie is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are legged-robotics, legged-robots, locomotion, model-predictive-control.

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Open-source wheeled biped robots

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upkie is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

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Yes. upkie is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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upkie is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

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upkie is written mainly in Python.

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