Berkeley Humanoid Lite
Open-source forskningshumanoid från Berkeleys Hybrid Robotics Lab. Lite-versionen är en drastiskt billigare iteration av Berkeley Humanoid, framtagen för att andra forskningslabb ska kunna replikera plattformen utan miljonbudget.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite är ett akademiskt svar på frågan om hur billigt en humanoid kan göras utan att förlora forskningsvärdet. Designen är publicerad i papers och som öppen kod.
För Plåtniklas läsare är detta inte en köpbar produkt utan en referens som signalerar var den akademiska kostnadsfronten ligger 2026.
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Berkeley Humanoid Lite is an open-source humanoid robot designed to be accessible, customizable, and beneficial for the entire community. All components can be sourced from widely available e-commerce platforms and fabricated using standard desktop 3D printers, keeping the total hardware cost under $5,000.
Yufeng Chi et al., lite.berkeley-humanoid.org , 2025-04-24
Despite significant interest and advancements in humanoid robotics, most existing commercially available hardware remains high-cost, closed-source, and non-transparent within the robotics community. This lack of accessibility and customization hinders the growth of the field and the broader development of humanoid technologies. To address these challenges and promote democratization in humanoid robotics, we demonstrate Berkeley Humanoid Lite, an open-source humanoid robot designed to be accessible, customizable, and beneficial for the entire community.
arxiv.org
Berkeley Humanoid Lite stands at about 1 meter and weighs approximately 16 kg. The open-source Berkeley Humanoid Lite provides an entry point into the robotics field. By developing Berkeley Humanoid Lite, the researchers set out to provide a launching point for anyone with an interest in humanoid technology. The core of Berkeley Humanoid Lite’s design is a modular 3D-printed gearbox for the actuators and robot body. All other components can be sourced from widely available e-commerce platforms or fabricated with standard desktop 3D printers. This keeps the total hardware cost under $5,000 (based on U.S. market prices), a fraction of the cost of purchasing a commercially built robot of similar scale. In addition, replacements for broken or worn parts can be easily fabricated using the 3D printer. Recognizing that 3D-printed parts inherently lack the strength of materials such as aluminum, the researchers adopted a cycloidal gear design for the gearbox inside the actuator. The researchers also tested Berkeley Humanoid Lite’s ability to complete simple tasks, such as grasping objects and walking forward. To enable hand manipulation, the researchers assembled a teleoperation system for the robot. Using joystick controls, they demonstrated Berkeley Humanoid Lite’s ability to grab and play with items, including a Rubik’s Cube. The researchers also used reinforcement learning to develop a locomotion controller that enables the bipedal robot to walk. Berkeley Humanoid Lite’s hardware design, embedded code, and training and deployment frameworks are fully open source. The researchers wanted users to be able to see how everything works and to easily customize the robot.
engineering.berkeley.edu , 2025-06-01