$8,950Westwood store price (list was $15,290)

AvailableRL walkingUCLA RoMeLa designProprioceptive actuatorsUS-made

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Overview

Born in UCLA's RoMeLa lab (the group behind DARwIn-OP) and commercialized by Westwood Robotics, BRUCE is a carbon-fiber kid-size humanoid with liquid-cooled knee actuators built for dynamic locomotion research. It is one of the few truly dynamic small humanoids sold by a US company with open control code. The arms are simple, so it is a locomotion platform rather than a manipulator.

Specifications

Category	Bipeds · Kid-size humanoids (≤ 1.3 m)
Released	2022
Availability	Available
Programmability	Open source (hardware + software)
Best for	Professionals & labs
Vision sensors	No vision sensors
Actuators	Brushless / direct-drive motors
Audio	No audio
Compute type	Unknown
Balance type	RL walking
Height	70 cm
Weight	4.8 kg
Compute	Onboard ~6 TOPS, 8 GB RAM, 32 GB storage
Speed	Not published
DOF	16 (5 per leg, 3 per arm)
Sensors	6-DoF IMU (up to 2 kHz), foot contact sensors
Balance	Proprioceptive, backdrivable actuators with model-predictive and learned controllers; walks, runs and jumps dynamically.
SDK	Open platform: BRUCE-OP GitHub code, SSH access, standard deep-learning frameworks