robotindex MangDang Mini Pupper 2 Pro
A 12-DOF quadruped robot dog kit running full ROS2 on a Raspberry Pi 4/CM4, descended from Stanford Student Robotics' open-source "Stanford Pupper" research platform. The Pro tier upgrades to servos with velocity and torque feedback, not just position, and pairs with an optional spinning lidar for genuine SLAM/Nav2 navigation — a step up in compute and software depth from this catalog's Petoi Bittle X V2, at roughly double the price once add-ons are included.
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Image: MangDang (official)
Specs
Battery
1000mAhruntime not officially published; short per user reports
Weight
~450gMini Pupper 2 platform figure (Pi 4 variant); no separate Pro-tier figure found
Dimensions
21 × 11 × 16.5 cmPi 4 variant; CM4 variant is ~2.5cm shorter (14cm height)
Compute
Raspberry Pi 4 / CM4+ ESP32 co-processor for low-level motor/sensor I/O
Camera
Pi Camera v2, 8MP~62° FOV; OAK-D-Lite stereo depth camera optional
Software
ROS 2 Humble, Ubuntu 22.04Cartographer SLAM + Nav2; ROS1 path also documented
Joints
12 DOF, feedback servosPro adds velocity + torque feedback, not just position
Lidar
STL-06P (optional)360° spinning DTOF lidar, ~12m range, sold separately
Gait Origin
Stanford Pupper lineagebuilt on Stanford Student Robotics' open gait code
Assembly
Kit build, no solderingMangDang flags Pro for experienced makers specifically
Reference Price
The Mini Pupper 2 Pro Maker Kit lists at $799, with MangDang's own store showing it discounted to $559 on promotion. At research time it was listed as sold out directly from MangDang, so buyers currently have to look to distributors such as RobotShop and OzRobotics.
Insights
MangDang's core GitHub repo for Mini Pupper is genuinely open (MIT license, ~1,200 stars), with real if modest community activity — a legitimate open robotics project, not a large or fast-moving one.
Firmware & Community
mangdangroboticsclub/QuadrupedRobot
Open-source ROS robot dog kit repo covering firmware, motion control, and simulation.
Verified against MangDang's official Mini Pupper 2 Pro and Mini Pupper 2 product pages, its "About Us" page, and both Kickstarter campaign pages (2021 original, 2022 Mini Pupper 2); the mangdangroboticsclub/QuadrupedRobot and mini_pupper_ros GitHub repositories and their license/star counts; the peer-reviewed Stanford Pupper paper (arXiv:2110.00736) and Stanford Student Robotics' own project page; the LDROBOT STL-06P lidar datasheet; the Raspberry Pi Official Magazine's independent review; and IEEE Spectrum's 2022 robot gift guide entry. Flagged as uncertain: exact battery runtime in minutes (not officially published by MangDang); the Mini Pupper 2 Pro Maker Kit's current availability, shown sold out directly from MangDang at research time; and the extent of independent peer-reviewed citation of MangDang's specific commercial kit, as opposed to the underlying Stanford Pupper research it's derived from.