Facts

• Company: ROBOTIS
• Product type: Mobile Manipulator
• Status: available
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/platform/op3/introduction/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

OP3-W is a ROBOTIS humanoid research platform variant tied to the OP3 family. It is used for education, humanoid control, locomotion and perception work where builders need an open, compact robot based on DYNAMIXEL actuator technology.

Overview

OP3-W is a ROBOTIS humanoid research platform variant tied to the OP3 family. It is used for education, humanoid control, locomotion and perception work where builders need an open, compact robot based on DYNAMIXEL actuator technology.

Market context

OP3-W is ROBOTIS' wheeled semi-humanoid platform derived from the OP3 research robot.

• Target environment: Academic labs, robotics classrooms, developer environments and mobile interaction research settings.
• Workflow context: ROS-compatible development, mobile manipulation research, education, humanoid upper-body control and wheeled mobility testing.
• Customer context: Universities, researchers, educators and developers using the DYNAMIXEL and ROBOTIS platform ecosystem.
• Deployment model: Available developer and education platform based on the ROBOTIS humanoid research lineage.
• Commercial maturity: Available research platform with established educational and humanoid-development use.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on educational fit, SDK support, DYNAMIXEL integration, payload, battery life and research goals.
• Market position: Research and education semi-humanoid lane that avoids bipedal locomotion while keeping humanoid upper-body experimentation.
• Adjacent products: ROBOTIS OP3, LimX TRON 1, Unitree Go2 EDU, TurtleBot platforms

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

ROS-compatible development, mobile manipulation research, education, humanoid upper-body control and wheeled mobility testing.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Academic labs, robotics classrooms, developer environments and mobile interaction research settings.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: ROS-compatible development, mobile manipulation research, education, humanoid upper-body control and wheeled mobility testing.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Academic labs, robotics classrooms, developer environments and mobile interaction research settings.

Specifications

• Control Interface: ROS-compatible
• Onboard Compute: onboard controller with external PC support

Tags

• Peer Group: Mobile manipulation robot
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Developer platform, Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2024-04-10 - Research Publication - DeepMind releases OP3 soccer data and notebooks for agile bipedal RL results - The Zenodo/OpenAIRE data release provides Python notebooks, raw data, and reproduction materials for the…
• 2023-04-27 - Research Publication - OP3 paper demonstrates global-position tracking for multi-domain bipedal walking - The paper introduces a stabilizing global-position tracking controller for hybrid multi-domain biped…
• 2023-04-26 - Research Publication - DeepMind trains agile soccer skills on ROBOTIS OP3 with deep reinforcement learning - The DeepMind paper trains a 20-actuator miniature humanoid robot to play one-versus-one soccer us…
• 2022-04-08 - Research Publication - OP3 paper studies sim-to-real compliant bipedal locomotion - The paper studies sim-to-real transfer of compliant bipedal locomotion on the ROBOTIS OP3 humanoid.
• 2018-03-26 - Research Publication - ROBOTIS publishes OP3 open-source ROS packages for humanoid research - ROBOTIS maintains the official Apache-licensed ROS package repository for ROBOTIS OP3, including walking, balanc…