The Dingo | A Low Cost, Open-Source Robot Quadruped

This video details the creation of the Dingo, a low-cost robot quadruped designed and built by:
Alexander Calvert / calvert-alex
Nathan Ferguson / nathan-ferguson1
The Dingo was created as a capstone engineering project for the Bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University.
This video was created as part of the project's formal assessment and hence has been framed in a manner to suit those requirements, however, it gives a good overview of the whole project and what was achieved.
Code for the Dingo:
github.com/Yerbert/DingoQuadr...
3d CAD: (Solidworks)
grabcad.com/library/dingo-rob...
Total cost is ~$1300 AUD. Full BOM can be found in the GitHub
Facebook Group for the project:
/ 1244354326278347
Special thanks to the open-source designs that helped inspire aspects of this project:
- Stanford Pupper V1: pupper.readthedocs.io/en/late...
- Stanford Pupper V2: pupper-independent-study.read...
- Notspot: github.com/lnotspotl/notspot_...
- SpotMicro: www.thingiverse.com/thing:344..., spot-mini-mini.readthedocs.io...
- Nova SM3: novaspotmicro.com/
- Mini Pupper: minipupperdocs.readthedocs.io...
- Kangal: • Diy Robot Dog : Kangal
If you would like to reach out to me feel free to email me at:
natheferguson@gmail.com

Пікірлер: 472

  • @danfg7215
    @danfg7215 Жыл бұрын

    What amazing robots. They still feel a bit robotic, so there's room for improvement. I'm just blown away at how human they look when talking.

  • @leo_pi

    @leo_pi

    Жыл бұрын

    that took a humorous turn...

  • @zaidakhtar3093

    @zaidakhtar3093

    Жыл бұрын

    Still no black robot

  • @xxbatman69xx98

    @xxbatman69xx98

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zaidakhtar3093 yes there are lol.

  • @Aquillyne

    @Aquillyne

    Жыл бұрын

    You legend

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @Markfps
    @Markfps Жыл бұрын

    This is the best quadruped that I've seen in years and it's OpenSource!! It will improve with the community's work, this is amazing!

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @raguaviva

    @raguaviva

    Жыл бұрын

    Is this the best??? Really??

  • @theDude9750

    @theDude9750

    11 ай бұрын

    errr ok

  • @justanerd414

    @justanerd414

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@raguavivanaah

  • @anoirbentanfous
    @anoirbentanfous Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for all your supporters and for your hard-work to make this available to everyone

  • @das250250
    @das250250 Жыл бұрын

    Dual motor limb leg design is absolutely brilliant . Good works guys .

  • @rudiniemeijer8869
    @rudiniemeijer8869 Жыл бұрын

    All jokes for the somewhat rehearsed presentations aside (that by the way greatly handle the amount of details and were professionally talked through and produced), congratulations on this amazing robotic platform and thoughtful details. Flipping the fans, carrying handle, emergency stop, simultaneously simulating while operating the robot, just three servos per leg, expandability.. it just blows my mind how many things you have achieved. Well done!

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    Жыл бұрын

    Thankyou very much!

  • @Marlosian

    @Marlosian

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nathanferguson6248 No dig at you guys, but you might want to consider hiring a talent to do the presentation next time. You're obviously amazing developers for this product, but there are other people who I bet will be just as amazing presenting it to the public.

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    Жыл бұрын

    This was made primarily for a university assessment and the video was uploaded here as an extra. If we got someone else to present we would fail the assesment😂

  • @Marlosian

    @Marlosian

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nathanferguson6248 Well that makes perfect sense, thanks for explaining. In that case, you guys totally crushed it. Kudos!

  • @umaikakudo

    @umaikakudo

    2 ай бұрын

    Never trust a skinny cook; or an engineer who isn't socially awkward.

  • @josgraha
    @josgraha Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! This is by far the best (low cost) open source quadruped I have seen to date. Just because a robotic platform is low cost doesn't mean it has to skimp on software features. Oddly enough I have been cobbling together various open source ideas into something that can actually run ROS Noetic with simulation, trainability and firmware extensibility in mind. IMO there's two main camps in robotic design which are the mechanical and computational aspects and this project didn't skimp on either. Wonderfully executed, thank you so much!!

  • @brokebothmearms9237
    @brokebothmearms9237 Жыл бұрын

    This is really impressive. Great work guys.

  • @uniworkhorse
    @uniworkhorse Жыл бұрын

    I don't know much about robotics, but it's cool to see you guys filling a niche for student researchers. Great work, and love how detailed you are about specs and limitations!

  • @rhadiem
    @rhadiem11 ай бұрын

    Excellent job! I'm excited not only for this initial release, but all subsequent releases in the open-hardware community built on this fantastic platform. Great job team, and thank you for supporting open hardware.

  • @raspimari5532
    @raspimari5532 Жыл бұрын

    Simply awesome, exactly what i was looking for since years. Many thanks for Sharing.

  • @GeorgeSukFuk

    @GeorgeSukFuk

    Жыл бұрын

    I am years old

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    Жыл бұрын

    Thankyou!

  • @timaidley7801
    @timaidley7801 Жыл бұрын

    "Boston Dynamics wowed the world with the first commercially available robot dog, Spot." Sony AIBO enters the chat

  • @error.418

    @error.418

    Жыл бұрын

    Heh, yeah, they forgot the key detail of "industrial robot dog"

  • @timaidley7801

    @timaidley7801

    Жыл бұрын

    @@error.418 I just realized AIBO probably came out before they were born

  • @error.418

    @error.418

    Жыл бұрын

    @@timaidley7801 Sure did! Although Sony tried to be hostile to tinkerers for the first couple years. They filed a DMCA complaint against people who had open sourced software for it back in 2001. Luckily they backpedaled, but oof. Nice to see open-source first mentality.

  • @samwpatterson
    @samwpatterson Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate you keeping this thing a reasonable size and made from smashable materials. Excellent work on the robot bits too!

  • @yuvrajkukreja1248
    @yuvrajkukreja12484 ай бұрын

    Open source is awesome. Well done 👍 ...... Good work 🙂

  • @RaG0dofTheSun
    @RaG0dofTheSun Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing, I can't wait to see a larger one with a bigger carry capacity once it is worked out in the future!

  • @Mysda_

    @Mysda_

    Жыл бұрын

    I still believe in a future with farmer robot dogs

  • @alekseyprokopev7409
    @alekseyprokopev7409 Жыл бұрын

    You did a great work! I'm pretty sure it's gonna inspire a lot of people and be used as a learning framework. Thank you.

  • @dsnineteen
    @dsnineteen11 ай бұрын

    Congrats on a brilliant project and a well-produced presentation! This is some inspiring work, I hope you’re recognised accordingly both academically and professionally.

  • @chris_piss
    @chris_piss Жыл бұрын

    This project is awesome and it would be so cool if a community built up around it. I can imagine people contributing sdks, add-ons for things like more weight capacity, self re-charging, etc. Nice job!

  • @TandaMadison
    @TandaMadison11 ай бұрын

    What a great looking build!! Now I have another project that I absolutely don't have time for LOL. That being said, I've already downloaded the CAD and cloned the repo so we'll see where it goes. Congrats Alexander and Nathan on knocking it out of the park on your studies and publishing your work. This is so much more accessible than the whitepaper, tucked away in some some conference proceedings, of old. Contribution to the art and science achieved!!

  • @JoelSilva-gk4hq
    @JoelSilva-gk4hq Жыл бұрын

    Great work guys! This is better than the alternative out there and it's open source. Simply incredible! Thank you!

  • @Simon_Rafferty
    @Simon_Rafferty Жыл бұрын

    Well done! That really is a big contribution to the OS Robotics community. It even looks cool!

  • @schuman2242
    @schuman2242 Жыл бұрын

    Great work team, awesome contribution to the open source community.

  • @kdemotorsports
    @kdemotorsports10 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for releasing this project. I’ve started mine and it’s early stages but can’t wait to get it assembled and start exploring the software side of this. The idea that anyone can download the CAD files, 3D print, order a few parts and start working on this is incredible. Plus expanding would be easy since you can quickly and easily make your own top plates. The design of the servo carries and inboard dual servos with the linkage is equally impressive. Thank you so much!

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    10 ай бұрын

    Awesome! Excited to hear how it goes

  • @kdemotorsports

    @kdemotorsports

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nathanferguson6248 the one question I have is about the shoulder carriers. In the CAD there’s a heat insert on the side without the servo horn, but no bolt. Is there supposed to be a bolt that threads into there to support the opposite side of that carriage? If so there is a gap is that gap intended to have a spacer? Or is it just held in position directly by the servo horn on the opposite side? Also I agree with others this project needs a community. Facebook group, forums, or discord something to allow all of us to communicate about builds, enhancements, and questions. Again thank you so much.

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    10 ай бұрын

    @@kdemotorsports You are right, there should be an M4 x16mm (or it may be 20mm I can't remember atm) bold that goes through here, I may have neglected to add it to the model, but it should screw into an M4 heat set inset that is mounted in the motor hub on the other side. THis should be tightened enough to provide a solid pivot point but not enough to provide lateral force. Thread-locking glue is essential here. Not a great part of the design tbh I'm sure it could be improved.

  • @_Chad_ThunderCock

    @_Chad_ThunderCock

    Ай бұрын

    @@nathanferguson6248hey! You guys have any plans for a open source humanoid robot project?

  • @sylkates
    @sylkates Жыл бұрын

    I am a bad sci fi writer, because I did NOT see open-source robots coming. Great job, folks!

  • @error.418

    @error.418

    Жыл бұрын

    open source robots have been around for decades now... that's not to detract from their work, that's mostly to drive home the point that, yeah... you're out of touch.

  • @philippawlowski6274
    @philippawlowski6274 Жыл бұрын

    Well done Nathan and Alex!

  • @sennabullet
    @sennabullet Жыл бұрын

    You guys are amazing. Thank you for making this available to us.

  • @atlock
    @atlock Жыл бұрын

    Truly amazing product, thank you for making it open source and all the best for your future!

  • @AerialWaviator
    @AerialWaviator Жыл бұрын

    Such a fascinating robotic project. I'm impressed by the leg linkage design.

  • @seabeepirate
    @seabeepirate Жыл бұрын

    Open source the future! Love it, great work people!

  • @InderJalli
    @InderJalli11 ай бұрын

    You have indeed done something significant. Excellent work.

  • @jerry-hilburn
    @jerry-hilburn Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding work gentlemen. Sure to be used by many going forward.

  • @OMNI_INFINITY
    @OMNI_INFINITY11 ай бұрын

    Nicely done! Thanks for making all those files available!

  • @adrianhardcastle9297
    @adrianhardcastle92977 ай бұрын

    Great project! I love the fact you not only thought of the higher principles (keeping the weight off the legs - much like on an off-load buggy or F1 car you take the brakes (weight) inboard and make the wheels as light as possible to be able to react faster) but also the smaller principles, ease of use, access to ports, use of magnets to make parts easy to move and accessible, and safety with the cut-off switch (also does anyone actually code in Asimovs 3 laws of robotics so they cant kill us? or do they forget or just assume someone else puts them in there?!?!?) - its often the little touches that make a great design, well done and congrats

  • @rodrigoalvarez1712
    @rodrigoalvarez17129 ай бұрын

    WOW! Great job guys!!! Amazing project.

  • @dman8776
    @dman8776 Жыл бұрын

    Very impressive design. Nice work!

  • @TimoTeamMeinInternet
    @TimoTeamMeinInternet11 ай бұрын

    Awesome work guys! Genuinely interested how this evolves in the future. :)

  • @metricstormtrooper
    @metricstormtrooper Жыл бұрын

    That's some really neat design, I love the fact that you used off the shelf parts.

  • @willsonj
    @willsonj Жыл бұрын

    Great work fellas! Dingo is the perfect name for it too

  • @onimus93
    @onimus93 Жыл бұрын

    Bill of materials: $300 of printable parts, $100 for servos and $1100 for the rpi

  • @SchoolforHackers

    @SchoolforHackers

    11 ай бұрын

    😂 Ouch, but too true 😂

  • @vistry2036
    @vistry2036 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible engineering guys! Well done 👏

  • @europhil2000
    @europhil2000 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome and good job. This needs more attention!

  • @VIJAYzk
    @VIJAYzk Жыл бұрын

    Thats a beautiful machine. Nice job guys

  • @SmashingBricksAU
    @SmashingBricksAU11 ай бұрын

    Nice work guys and thanks for sharing the project!

  • @illusivec
    @illusivec Жыл бұрын

    This is some cool stuff guys. Well done!

  • @wormjuice7772
    @wormjuice7772 Жыл бұрын

    That sht's dingo! Congrats guys!

  • @kevinmerrell9952
    @kevinmerrell995211 ай бұрын

    Outstanding! Fantastic work! Thank you for sharing this.

  • @DanMcB1
    @DanMcB1 Жыл бұрын

    Great job fellas, amazing use of the tools available.

  • @gomezmario.f
    @gomezmario.f Жыл бұрын

    Awesome project, a vlog during the dev process would've been a gold mine of details for students.

  • @Gomisan
    @Gomisan Жыл бұрын

    That is a great little robot! Well done

  • @fmphotooffice5513
    @fmphotooffice5513 Жыл бұрын

    Applause! Applause! Plenty of optimization and flexibility. Those leg movement optimizations are fascinating.

  • @bzipoli
    @bzipoli Жыл бұрын

    what an amazing step on democratizing robotics research and usage amazing feat! 👏👏👏

  • @h3Xh3Xh3X
    @h3Xh3Xh3X Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for releasing your files publicly!

  • @jordantheman25
    @jordantheman25 Жыл бұрын

    this is such a big step forwards. Great work!

  • @thehulk0111
    @thehulk0111 Жыл бұрын

    i hope later on this project wont die nice work , GOOD JOB

  • @ridmaganganath5691
    @ridmaganganath56917 ай бұрын

    Impressed man!! Amazing Work.

  • @AnilArya51
    @AnilArya51 Жыл бұрын

    Dingo looks cool

  • @B0A2
    @B0A2 Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing! I would love a build guide if possible and a further breakdown of the costs.

  • @nathanferguson6248

    @nathanferguson6248

    Жыл бұрын

    Thankyou! Unfortunately, there won't be any more videos on this project because we have handed it to the next students to work on as we have graduated, however, I've added the bill of materials and cost breakdown to the GitHub repo now.

  • @tristancoffin

    @tristancoffin

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@nathanferguson6248 real quick question does the BoM have any parts drawings or something?

  • @bzipoli

    @bzipoli

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@nathanferguson6248imho you guys should consider expanding into the research/academic field after such an awsome feat ❤

  • @justinbeck9764

    @justinbeck9764

    11 ай бұрын

    @BOA2 do you have interest in diving more in here? I do as well. I'd like to start to 3D print the parts @nathanferguson6248 Any tips on finding the instructions for 3D printing the parts. Do you model files already stl exported with material instructions anywhere you could place, or I didn't find them so far. the BOM is wonderful there which is nice for all the other components.

  • @thefatmoop

    @thefatmoop

    11 ай бұрын

    @@nathanferguson6248 paper launch. "We made this great thing!" someone asks "great can i learn anything more" response "Nope sorry we dropped it" lol

  • @Unnaymed
    @Unnaymed2 ай бұрын

    Amazing work ! Gg to the team ❤

  • @TheMadMagician87
    @TheMadMagician87 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome work fellas, that's really cool!

  • @karissastisser
    @karissastisser11 ай бұрын

    Amazing accomplishment! I can tell you put in a lot of work into this, and really appreciate when work like this is available for others to use as well. As a robotics software engineer that's worked on tracking and SLAM I would worry about a raspberry pi having enough compute to be useful for robotics algorithms, and I didn't hear anything about sensors to understand the environment. This is definitely a great start point though for others to build on, great work!

  • @kdemotorsports

    @kdemotorsports

    10 ай бұрын

    I was already thinking about adding cheap sonar to the front of mine. All kinds of possibilities.

  • @thelockpickinglebowski633
    @thelockpickinglebowski63311 ай бұрын

    They did a great job designing the Dingo.

  • @OMNI_INFINITY
    @OMNI_INFINITY11 ай бұрын

    That gazebo addition is a nice bonus also.

  • @SimonPilkington
    @SimonPilkington11 ай бұрын

    Great work guys 👍

  • @erikfinnegan
    @erikfinnegan Жыл бұрын

    I'm impressed. And thankful for the YT algo to have pushed this vid to my stream.

  • @terezip2213
    @terezip2213 Жыл бұрын

    amazing work! and good on yous for open sourcing it :) cheers from UoN

  • @brunobock372
    @brunobock3726 ай бұрын

    That's really nice! The high entry cost is what kept me away from dog robots. The other researchers in my lab are gonna love this

  • @TheAussieRepairGuy
    @TheAussieRepairGuy Жыл бұрын

    Good to see Aussies keeping the country in the technology game.

  • @websavvy
    @websavvy Жыл бұрын

    awesome work lads!

  • @nonsquid
    @nonsquid Жыл бұрын

    Some people talk, you guys do. Well done and thank you.

  • @giosanchez90
    @giosanchez90 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing work!

  • @tycocollectors
    @tycocollectors6 ай бұрын

    Super cool! Well done.

  • @dignitylifts
    @dignitylifts8 ай бұрын

    That was great! Nice work.

  • @mariusholle8380
    @mariusholle8380 Жыл бұрын

    Great work!!🎉

  • @technoadmin
    @technoadmin Жыл бұрын

    looks awesome, looking forward to tinkering with this

  • @MT-rv3uh
    @MT-rv3uh Жыл бұрын

    Awesome work guys

  • @AaedMusa
    @AaedMusa Жыл бұрын

    Awesome work this is so cool!!

  • @wahyuagungsugimartanto3340
    @wahyuagungsugimartanto3340 Жыл бұрын

    I liked the name, even more for the projects... proud to be a Monash

  • @hierholzerd
    @hierholzerd8 ай бұрын

    Nice Work!!!! Very Impressive

  • @tijuthomas6793
    @tijuthomas67937 ай бұрын

    Awesome project

  • @kairu_b
    @kairu_b Жыл бұрын

    Incredible work

  • @varaprasadgoudg
    @varaprasadgoudg Жыл бұрын

    You guys have turned my dream into reality. ❤❤❤❤

  • @Dekarowski25
    @Dekarowski25 Жыл бұрын

    Great work making it.

  • @marco.nascimento
    @marco.nascimento Жыл бұрын

    Awesome!! Great work

  • @yxx_chris_xxy
    @yxx_chris_xxy11 ай бұрын

    Congratulations! This is really useful.

  • @drillerdev4624
    @drillerdev462411 ай бұрын

    Great work, guys. I hope your linkedin is on fire right now.

  • @sidneyking11
    @sidneyking11 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome job guys

  • @Lupinicus1664
    @Lupinicus166411 ай бұрын

    Great work guys. This will speed up work on walking robots.

  • @narangfamily7668
    @narangfamily76683 ай бұрын

    Amazing work! Would love to make my own someday

  • @RealSnail3D
    @RealSnail3D Жыл бұрын

    Great job guys!

  • @alr492
    @alr4926 ай бұрын

    Its best feature is the capability to be manipulated with a Play Station controller. One of the smartest moves I've seen in Product Development.

  • @bingolio
    @bingolio11 ай бұрын

    Great Job!!

  • @DominequeTaylor
    @DominequeTaylor11 ай бұрын

    Totally grabbing one of these!

  • @yannkitson116
    @yannkitson11611 ай бұрын

    Impressive, thanks for sharing!

  • @paulmcewen7384
    @paulmcewen7384 Жыл бұрын

    Well done guys.

  • @nicxonpiaso6199
    @nicxonpiaso6199 Жыл бұрын

    Cool stuff..Giving Clearpath Robotics and others a bump..We would love to see this enter the commercial markets for end-users to utilize.Great work Alexander and Nathan!💪🙏..The Mining industry are now seeing the importance or Robotics to use in underground environment and seeing varying products entering the Industry turns heads wit WOW..This product has ptential to bid there too!

  • @raguaviva

    @raguaviva

    Жыл бұрын

    You are joking right? This thing cannot even walk

  • @breadcodes
    @breadcodes Жыл бұрын

    Great work!

  • @TradieTrev
    @TradieTrev Жыл бұрын

    That's no dingo! It didn't take my child away and eat it! :P Cool effort and hats off team!

  • @SchoolforHackers

    @SchoolforHackers

    11 ай бұрын

    I think the dingo ate your robot...

  • @dongningprc
    @dongningprc Жыл бұрын

    Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

  • @DiegoPerez-ns5tj
    @DiegoPerez-ns5tj5 ай бұрын

    Thanks for share your work. I hope build this robot in my university, looks very impressive 👏

  • @MangDangRobotics
    @MangDangRobotics Жыл бұрын

    Good job, Man!

  • @EB240
    @EB240 Жыл бұрын

    Well Done!