Make: Volume 93

OKAY ROBOT Pupper AI Quadruped

P

upper is a cute and athletic robot puppy that

lets anyone experiment with physical AI. Ask

Pupper to do a dance and it might decide to hop

on three legs, or spin in a circle, using its LLM.

Or, tell Pupper to climb over a stack of Jenga

blocks and it will skillfully navigate the obstacles

using its neural network that’s been trained using

reinforcement learning.

With Pupper we’re bringing the capabilities of

state-of-the-art robots, like walking with neural

networks and LLM

-based voice interaction,

to

a smaller, safer, and more affordable form-

factor. Unlike other small robot dogs, Pupper

uses powerful brushl ...