The Robotis Bioloid (stylized as ROBOTIS BIOLOID) is a hobbyist and educational robot kit produced by the South Korean robot manufacturer Robotis. The Bioloid platform consists of components and small, modular servomechanisms called the AX-12A Dynamixels, which can be used in a daisy-chained fashion to construct robots of various configurations, such as wheeled, legged, or humanoid robots. The Robot is programmed with RoboPlus, C (programming language) based software. The Bioloid system is thus comparable to the Lego Mindstorms, and VEX Robotics VEXplorer kits.

Kit types

There are multiple variations of the Bioloid kit:

TurtleBot 3 and other platforms

Turtlebot 3, announced in 2016 and developed in collaboration with Robotis and the Open Source Robotics Foundation, is the smallest and cheapest of the TurtleBots. Other Robotis platforms include: Robotis OP 2, Robotis Manipulator, and ThorMang3.

TB3 plug-ins for Gazebo

Robotis has TurtleBot3 plug-ins for the Gazebo robotics simulator that allow simulating a TB3 Burger, Waffle, or Waffle Pi.

Applications

The platform is currently in use by the U.S. Naval Academy in their mechanical engineering courses, and is also popular in the RoboCup international robotics competition and FIRA competition.