Youbot
YouBot is an open-source mobile manipulation platform from KUKA Robotics, featuring a 5-DOF arm on an omnidirectional mobile base. Widely used in research and education for mobile manipulation benchmarking, it has been discontinued for production but remains in active use at universities worldwide as a reference platform.
Primary use case: Open-source mobile manipulation platform from KUKA widely used in research and education for mobile manipulation benchmarking. Discontinued but still in use at many institutions.
Height
80 cm
Weight
26 kg
DOF
5
Payload
0.5 kg
Specifications
Physical
Height
80 cm
Weight
26 kg
Degrees of Freedom
5
Locomotion
wheeled (omnidirectional)
Manipulation
Payload
0.5 kg
AI & Compute
AI Capabilities
AI-powered factories
Commercial
Availability
Research
Primary Use Case
Open-source mobile manipulation platform from KUKA widely used in research and education for mobile manipulation benchmarking. Discontinued but still in use at many institutions.
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