MangDang · robot dog
Mini Pupper
A commercial, Raspberry Pi-powered education robot dog based on Stanford Pupper, supporting ROS, SLAM and navigation. Mini Pupper 2 followed in 2022.
- Price
- $279Cheaper than 95%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Mini Pupper is on the market today.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
MangDangCompanyHow it stacks up
Against other robot dogs that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Mini Pupper costs less than 95% of the 21 other robot dogs that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, joints, battery.
Public attention
How much public attention Mini Pupper gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- How it runs
- Assisted. Students steer it with a controller while its software handles gait, and can program SLAM and navigation.
- Chip
- Raspberry Pi 4 (BCM2711) (Raspberry Pi / Broadcom)Runs on a Raspberry Pi 4; Mini Pupper 2 uses a Pi 4 or CM4 plus an ESP32.
- Actuators & motors
- 12 MangDang custom servos; Mini Pupper 2 servos give position feedback (Pro adds velocity and torque feedback)
- Sensors & vision
- Optional LD06 lidar for SLAM; OAK-D Lite camera supported; Mini Pupper 2 adds IMU, touch sensor and microphone
- Compute
- Raspberry Pi 4 (Mini Pupper 2: Pi 4 or CM4 plus ESP32 microcontroller)
- Battery & power
- 800 mAh (Mini Pupper 2: 1,000 mAh)
- AI & software
- Open-source, Ubuntu and ROS (CHAMP framework fork); ROS 2 on Mini Pupper 2
- Other details
- 320 x 240 LCD face; Mini Pupper 2 weighs about 450 g with 200 g payload
From the maker
Mini Pupper is the only machine from MangDang in the atlas.
Watch Mini Pupper
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $279Kickstarter pledges from US$279; Mini Pupper 2 kits $429-$529 (2022)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Sold through Kickstarter from 2021 and retail
- Where it is sold or used
- China
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Mini Pupper 2 launched with ROS 2
CNX Software covered Mini Pupper 2 with Raspberry Pi CM4 option, ESP32 and servo feedback, from $429 on Kickstarter.
CNX Software - Mini Pupper Kickstarter
CNX Software described the Raspberry Pi 4 robot dog for ROS education, from $279.
CNX Software
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Mini PupperMangDang |  BittlePetoiSame job: hobby · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar price |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2021-06 | 2020-08 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 11 cm |
| Weight | — | 0.3 kg |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | — | 0.5 kg |
| Battery | — | 1 h |
| Price | $279 | $195 |
Sources
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