Poppy Ergo is a robotic 6-degrees-of-freedom arm developped by the Flowers laboratory at Inria Bordeaux.
This robot was developped for scientific purpose of the lab, and highlighted by "The Ergo robots experiment, Artificial curiosity and language formation in robots" with fondation cartier.
This robot has a little brother Poppy Ergo Jr, working with XL-320 motors and thought for education purpose.
Poppy Ergo is animated by 6 Dynamixel MX-28 motors linked with 3D printable parts.
You can control this robot through USB2Dynamixel or USB2AX with the pypot Python library and poppy-creature.
This robot can also be simulated using V-REP.
If you want to install the software locally or if you are working with the simulator, you will have to install Python. We strongly recommand using a pre-packaged distribution as Anaconda and install poppy-ergo package (the easiest way is with pip install poppy-ergo).
For more informations, refer to the Poppy documentation.
You need support ? The Poppy forum is the best (and single) place to ask for help !
You can share your experience, new design, ideas or questions on the Poppy project forum.
To contribute to this repository, you can fork it and propose a pull request (Another useful link)
All the technological development work made in the Poppy project is freely available under open source licenses. Only the name usage "Poppy" is restricted and protected as an international trademark, please contact us if you want to use it or have more information.
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The Poppy project is born in 2012 in the Flowers laboratory at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest. It was initiated during Matthieu Lapeyre's PhD Thesis surpervised by Pierre Yves Oudeyer. At the beginning, the development team was composed by Matthieu Lapeyre (mechanics & design), Pierre Rouanet (software) and Jonathan Grizou (electronics).
This project is initially a fundamental research project financed by ERC Grant Explorer to explore the role of embodiement and morphology properties on cognition and especially on the learning of sensori-motor tasks.