SunFounder PiDog AI Robot Dog Kit for Raspberry Pi 4/3B+/3B/Zero 2W, ChatGPT-4o Enabled with Voice Command & Video Recognition, App Control, FPV, 12 Servos, Gyroscope, Camera, Mic (RPI NOT Included)

PiDog is awesome! SunFounder has tons of tutorials (video and text) on their web site (click on their Online Tutorials, and then on Robotic Kits, and finally on PiDog Robotic Kit). This kit is not for the faint-hearted to assemble, but everything is labeled very clearly (probably the most organized kit I've ever ordered and assembled honestly). It would be a great intro into robotics for anyone and you can learn to code in Python as well as learn some Linux administration. There are quite a few Python routines already included with PiDog, so it's easy to play with. Just remember, you'll need to already have a Raspberry Pi as this kit does not include it (I used it with a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2019 Quad Core 64 Bit WiFi Bluetooth 4GB RAM) and it works well. Definitely worth the price IMO.

Takes a few hours to build, then a couple of hours to load and calibrate. Overall fun and can't wait to load it with an AI model to localize better.

Pretty cool, good platform for learning the basics of robotics or figuring out how to write something more autonomous. Although merely assembling the dog and using the software on their website doesn't teach you much about how the signals are being interpreted by the motors. More just how to use python.The completed dog cannot spin in place as the legs only move forward/backward and have no lateral motion, so it's limited to very wide slow turns compared to fancier robot dogs. I also got one faulty servo that did not have the complete range of motion, so I installed that one on the "tail" which is relatively unimportant. I will probably use the pi robot hat and sensors for other things later, that's where most of the value lies.

Completely agree with the other reviews, this is a clever design showcasing how a variety of sensors and the SunFounder's robot hat can be combined to achieve complex actions and behaviors, in this case mimicking the behavior of a dog! The examples you see on the video are real, the ear scratching, the howling, including the superdog pose when getting picked up.It is educational to be shown examples of how all these are achieved with a capable board, a bunch of sensors, and programming. Sensor readings, servos and motor controls are very easy to work with via Python. The instructions are very clear, and the website has plenty and very good examples showing every aspects of using the board to build what you want, including autoboot into listening mode so it can be always on.I have yet to try the ChatGPT integration, but I have worked with OpenAI APIs before so I am confident it will work. I can imagine prompting additional puppy actions triggers and verbal dialog / action capabilities into PiDog, making it a perfect STEM toy and kids companion.PiDog is sheer fun, but the hardware that comes with it has a lot of potential uses. It is definitely worth getting if you are like me who want to experiment building robots, but just want to focus on the level of events and actions, and don't want to spend time on the low-level hardware integration, interrupts, register readings side of things! I am excited to experiment building things I had in mind for a long time but was limited by not knowing how to work with sensors. Now I am no longer blocked!One more thing to highlight is their responsive and helpful customer service. My speaker failed on arrival, and after some troubleshooting back and forth with their patience customer service, including showing them videos of my testing, I was given a replacement board for free and everything now works.

When I was considering buying this, I reached out to SubFounder and asked about its compatibility with The Pi 5. I was told it wasn’t compatible yet but that they were working on an update that should be out soon, and that it was already being tested. I took their word and ordered this.That was last September and I’m still waiting. It’s sad when a company with such goodwill feels the need to lie.

This robot is an excellent "starter" or "educational" kit for the new robotics enthusiast. For the price, the kit is impressive on many levels:1. A wide variety of sensors lets you experiment with many different modalities: camera/video, sound, ultrasonic distance, acceleration, direction of sound, and touch.2. solidly built with precision fitting parts, and clear instructions and videos to construct it3. tons of open source examples coded in python, illustrating simple behaviors as well as complex things like balance on uneven terrain, and integration with ChatGPT4. an interesting array of servos and outputs, including speaker, tail-wag, full roll/pitch/yaw head movement, mood-lights, and 8-servo walkingDuring construction, I made one mistake. I posted a question to the SunFounder forum, and got an exceptionally quick and helpful response, to solve my problem.I am a coder by profession, so I really appreciate all the examples they have provided. There are so many options for customizing behaviors. I will be playing with this (ie, coding cool behaviors) for many many hours.And the robot is pretty cute to look at too.

Too complex unless you are a developer or advanced programmer. Found it very difficult to access it from a PC