
EngineAI SA01 Bipedal Research Robot
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Product Description
The EngineAI SA01 is a highly extensible bipedal robot platform purpose-built for research and educational applications. As EngineAI's earlier open-source research platform, it offers a lightweight, fully open design that lets developers and research institutions customise its hardware and software for experiments in locomotion, reinforcement learning, and embodied intelligence.
Focused on legged locomotion rather than full upper-body manipulation, the SA01 provides a clean, accessible starting point for teams exploring bipedal gait research, control algorithms, and AI-driven walking and running behaviours. Its open-source architecture and generous payload capacity make it a practical mounting platform for external compute modules, sensors, and custom perception hardware.
Key Specifications
- Degrees of Freedom: 12 total (6 DOF per leg)
- Dimensions: ~1,290 mm (L) × 299 mm (W) × 323 mm (H)
- Payload Capacity: 10–15 kg additional equipment (compute modules, sensors)
- Movement Speed: ~1 m/s walking and running
- Design: Lightweight, fully open-source hardware and software
- Development: Customisable for locomotion research, reinforcement learning, embodied AI
- Use cases: Universities, robotics labs, education, gait and control algorithm research