Overview

The myBuddy 280 is a purpose-built integrated dual-arm robot rather than an ad-hoc pairing of two single arms. Two myCobot-class 6-DoF arms sit on a common body with a rotating waist joint, giving 13 degrees of freedom in total. It ships in a Raspberry-Pi-onboard configuration (myBuddy 280 Pi) with a 7-inch interactive display and two 2 MP HD cameras. Elephant Robotics supports it with an open Python SDK (pymycobot) and ROS, making it a common education and research-teaching platform for dual-arm manipulation, imitation learning demos, and coordinated two-hand experiments. It is a stationary desktop unit with no mobile base and no leader-arm teleoperation rig.

Highlights

• Integrated dual-arm desktop cobot: two 6-DoF arms on a shared rotating waist, 13 DoF total (not an ad-hoc 2x single-arm build).
• Marketed as the most cost-effective Raspberry-Pi-powered dual-arm robot; myBuddy 280 Pi carries onboard compute plus a 7-inch interactive touchscreen.
• Per-arm: 250 g payload, 280 mm reach, +/-0.5 mm repeatability.
• Two 2 MP HD cameras; ROS support and open pymycobot SDK for scripting and dual-arm imitation experiments.
• Aimed at education, teaching, and basic bimanual manipulation / dual-end-effector research.
• Approx cost: hundreds to a few thousand USD (education price tier).

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