Mercury X1 wheeled humanoid robot combines NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX AI controller and ESP32 motor control boards - CNX Software
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Elephant Robotics Mercury X1 is a 1.2-meter high wheeled humanoid robot with two robotic arms using an NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX as its main controller and
  • Alphane MoonMEnglish
    1•5 days ago

    The Mercury X1 can be purchased on Elephant Robotics for $15,999 US, which happens to be the starting price of the Unitree G1 2-legged humanoid robot with NVIDIA Jetson Orin, but lacking any programming guide as the Unitree robot looks to be configurable through a mobile app only.

    You buy a robot for $16 K and you can only configure it via mobile app and don’t have direct access?

    Although the documentation for this particular robot doesn’t seem all that hot. Seems like big issue considering the price.

    The documentation has instructions on how to get started and a few demos/tutorials for QR Code Recognition and Grasping, Spatial Movement, Mobile Grasping, and Keyboard typing. I could not find anything about the ESP32 firmware and all instructions are high-level Python or ROS code or commands. I also feel the documentation could be improved as things like specs seem incomplete, and while the product page mentions a “Mercury API is a C++ control interface”, it’s nowhere to be found in the documentation.