- ESP32 Controller & Arduino Programming – miniHexa is an open-source AI hexapod robot powered by ESP32, fully compatible with Arduino, and designed for precise control and easy expansion.
- 18DOF Structure & High-Speed Servos – Equipped with 18 anti-stall micro servos, it delivers fast, precise, and stable movements for complex actions.
- Inverse Kinematics & Flexible Movement – Advanced algorithms enable 360° omnidirectional motion with smooth posture, angle, and balance transitions.
- Compatible with vision, voice, ultrasonic, touch, and more, it supports creative functions like face detection, tracking, and voice control.
- Comprehensive Learning Resources – Offers 200+ tutorials, open-source code, and schematics to support AI learning, programming, and innovation.
miniHexa is an entry-level hexapod robot with an ESP32 controller and 18 anti-stall micro servos. Built-in inverse kinematics enable smooth, flexible 360° omnidirectional movement. It includes ultrasonic and IMU sensors plus expansion ports for AI vision, voice interaction, and more. miniHexa supports basic functions like distance measurement and obstacle avoidance, as well as advanced features such as visual recognition, target tracking, and voice control. It supports Arduino programming. Extensive learning tutorials and development resources are provided to help you easily embark on the journey of hexapod robot development!
① Compact Body, Powerful Performance
miniHexa is a lightweight hexapod robot. We fine-tuned every detail to incorporate agile maneuverability into a compact design, ensuring it has sufficient power and precise movement.
② Open Source Robot, More Creativity
miniHexa supports Arduino programming and offers comprehensive tutorials, open-source code, and schematics to help you easily master robot motion control and programming.
③ High-Performance Hardware Configuration
miniHexa's compact body features an ESP32 controller, 18 high-speed servos, a glowy ultrasonic sensor, and batteries. Despite its small size, miniHexa brings your grand vision of a spider robot to life.
④ 18DOF Structure, High-Speed Micro Servos
miniHexa is equipped with 18 joints, providing a wide range of flexible movements. It uses high-performance anti-blocking micro servos, ensuring precise control and smooth, efficient motion.
1. Inverse Kinematics & Flexible Movement
Powered by inverse kinematics, miniHexa smoothly controls 18 joints for flexible, omnidirectional motion. Easily switch between postures, angles, and balance to adapt to any scenario. Built-in high-precision IMU keeps the robot balanced and stable, even in challenging environments.
1) Efficient Gait Switching
miniHexa features a tripod gait based on inverse kinematics, enabling high stability and dynamic balance through alternating three-legged support. This grants the robot excellent adaptability across diverse terrains.
2) Agile 360° Omnidirectional Movement
miniHexa supports 360° omnidirectional movement, enabling agile transitions between walking modes and synchronized posture adjustments for more lifelike, bio-inspired motion.
3) Unlimited Attitude Adjustment
miniHexa adjusts yaw, pitch, and roll angles on the move, delivering high-degree-of-freedom, bio-inspired motion that's smooth, fluid, and adaptable to diverse scenarios.
4) Dynamic Height & Balance Control
miniHexa freely shifts its center of gravity forward or backward,dynamically adapting to changing tasks for quicker, more agile movement.
2. Professional Visual PC Software
miniHexa offers a professional-grade visual PC software that allows precise control of movement and body stance, custom action creation, and visual deviation adjustment, greatly enhancing operational flexibility and efficiency.
1) Coordinate Control
Easily send real-time spatial coordinate commands by clicking anddraggingpointson the PC interface, precisely moving the robot's end effector to the target position with visualized path control.
2) Attitude Control
Adjust the robot's body height, pitch, roll, and other posture parameters in real time for flexible control over its stance and movement.
3) Action Group Editing
Set frame-by-frame motion parameters via drag-and-drop,enabling quick creation of smooth robot action sequences-no coding required.
3. Obstacle Avoidance
miniHexa is equipped with o glowy ultrasonic sensor capable of measuring distances and emitting light in various colors, offering real-time feedbock on the robot's status and emotions.
1) Ultrasonic Ranging
Using an ultrasonic sensor, miniHexa can measure the distance to objects ahead, enabling distance detection in real time.
2) Ultrasonic Obstacle Avoidance
Using ultrasonic sensor to measure distance and autonomously avoid obstacles, miniHexa can detect barriers, plan its path, and prevent collisions in complex environments.
4. High-Performance Al Vision Module
-Support AP Direct Connection Mode
-Support Serial Port and lIC Communication
-2-Megapixel HD camera
-Support STA LAN Mode
1) Wifi Real-Time Live Feed Transmission
miniHexa is equipped with an ESP32-S3 vision module and supports dual network communication modes. By connecting via WiFi, users can access the live camera feed through a designated URL,available on both the app and PC.
1) Color Recognition
miniHexa can accurately recognize various colors using a color threshold segmentation algorithm. It can perform various feedback actions when programmed.
2) Color Tracking
miniHexa's ESP32-S3 vision module tracks objects of different colors and executes preset programs, enabling automatic tracking of colored objects.
3) Face Recognition
miniHexa uses lightweight convolutional neural network algorithms to perform facial recognition within its field of view and activate corresponding preset programs.
4) Vision Line Following
miniHexa is equipped with an ESP32-S3 vision module that recognizes lines of various colors and automatically tracks them to perform line following functions.
5. AI Voice Interaction
miniHexa features the WonderEcho Al voice interaction module, which supports voice control, voice broadcast, and various other functions,withoptions forcustomization.
1) Voice Control
miniHexa can "hear" voice commands within a 5-meter range and automatically execute the corresponding predefined actions, while broadcasting the appropriate response message.
2) Voice Broadcast
With the AI voice interaction module, miniHexa can continuously broadcast different voice prompts, delivering seamless audio feedback.
3) Voice & Vision Integration
miniHexa uses vision module to detect objects by color and provides voice feedback.
4) Voice Obstacle Alert
miniHexa automatically provides voice alert when detecting an object ahead using its RGB glowy ultrasonic sensor.
6. Ample Expansion, Unlimited Possibilities
miniHexa is equipped with a variety of sensors, including a touch sensor, two infrared obstacle avoidance sensors, an ultrasonic sensor, a dot matrix display,and more. These allow for secondary development and expansion, offering extensive creative possibilities.
1) Touch Control
Integrated with a high-sensitivity touch sensor, miniHexa can detect touch status in real time and respond with appropriate actions automatically.
2) Intelligent Fall Prevention
miniHexa uses infrared sensors to detect terrain edges and actively prevents falls in real time.
3) Dot Matrix Display
When measuring distance with ultrasound, data can be shown on the dot matrix display.
4) Infrared Obstacle Avoidance
miniHexa extends detection range with infrared sensors to sense obstacles ahead in real time, enabling autonomous avoidance and path adjustment.
5) Glowy Ultrasonic Sensor
Equipped with an IIC interface, it minimizes CPU resource usage while enabling front obstacle distance measurement and customizable RGB light colors.
6) Extensive Expansion Interfaces
miniHexa integrates expansion ports for ultrasonic sensors, touch sensors, and other sensors.
7) Aluminum Alloy Frame
Made from thickened, hardaluminum alloy with a painted surface treatment, miniHexa offers excellent body rigidity and impact resistance.
8) High-Rate LiPo Battery
miniHexa is equipped with 2 large-capacity 18650 lithium batteries, allowing miniHexa to achieve up to 60 minutes of battery life!
