
Overview
The 2026 successor to the JetHexa, with the same 18-servo hexapod body but new electronics. The original runs ROS Melodic on a Jetson Nano with an OLED display, while JetHexa2027 moves to ROS 2 Humble on a Raspberry Pi 5 or Jetson Orin board, uses an Aurora930 Pro depth camera and COIN-D6 or RPLIDAR C1 lidar, and adds a color LCD, voice module, large model lessons and the OpenClaw agent. It suits learners who want lidar SLAM, RTAB-Map 3D navigation and depth vision on a legged robot. The depth camera only comes in the Advanced and Ultimate kits, offline large models need a Jetson Orin, and Hiwonder's own benchmarks show the Pi 5 version running 3D vision at 15–20 fps.
Specifications
| Category | Multi-legged robots · Developer & research platforms |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026 |
| Country | China |
| Availability | Available |
| Programmability | Full SDK |
| Built-in autonomy | Navigates · Goes to places on its own, such as mapped rooms, waypoints or its charging dock |
| LLM support | Official LLM tools · Multimodal large model lessons (online APIs on every controller, offline models only on the Jetson Orin versions) plus the OpenClaw agent, which calls robot tools for navigation, action groups and scene reports and links to Telegram. Hiwonder recommends a Jetson Orin controller for the large model features. Hiwonder JetHexa2027 ↗ |
| MuJoCo simulation | None found · Nothing found. |
| NVIDIA Isaac simulation | None found · Nothing found. |
| Gazebo simulation | Official model · Hiwonder lists a 1:1 URDF model, MoveIt2 kinematics and Gazebo robot simulation for JetHexa2027. Hiwonder JetHexa2027 ↗ |
| Best for | Ages 14+ (estimated) |
| Vision sensors | Lidar, Depth camera, Camera |
| Actuators | Smart servos (Dynamixel, Feetech…) |
| Audio | Speaker, Microphone |
| Compute type | Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, Arduino / ESP32 / microcontroller |
| Compute | Raspberry Pi 5 (4 or 8 GB), Jetson Orin Nano Super (4 or 8 GB) or Jetson Orin NX Super (8 or 16 GB), or bring a board, plus an STM32 robot controller |
| Weight | 2.49 kg (Starter) to 2.71 kg (Ultimate), 430×400×226 mm standing |
| Speed | Not published |
| Legs / DOF | 6 legs × 3 DOF = 18 HX-35H bus servos (35 kg·cm) |
| Sensors | Aurora930 Pro depth camera 0.15–3 m (Advanced and Ultimate) or 2DOF pan-tilt monocular camera (Starter and Standard), COIN-D6 lidar 0.06–12 m (Standard and Advanced) or RPLIDAR C1 12 m (Ultimate), WonderEcho Pro voice module, IMU, color LCD. 11.1 V 3,500 mAh battery, about 60 min |
| SDK | Ubuntu 22.04 + ROS 2 Humble (in Docker on the Pi 5), Python/C/C++, slam_toolbox mapping, AMCL and multi-point navigation, RTAB-Map 3D mapping and navigation with the depth camera, YOLO26, MediaPipe, OpenCV, MoveIt2 and Gazebo, OpenClaw agent, phone app and PC action editor |
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