Maker's Pet Loki

Maker's Pet Loki is an open-source, 3D-printed home pet robot built on the Kaia.ai ROS2 robotics platform. It's a 200mm round differential-drive base sized to fit common 210x250mm and 220x220mm print beds, topped with a spinning laser distance sensor for room mapping and a phone/tablet mount that doubles as its "face."

Loki uses two BLDC gearmotors for locomotion, a spinning LiDAR (YDLIDAR X4/X3/X2, Neato XV11, LDS02RR, or RPLIDAR A1 are all supported) for 360-degree room scanning, and an ESP32 microcontroller running Kaia.ai's Arduino/micro-ROS firmware to bridge sensors and motors to a ROS2 stack. Once paired with the Kaia.ai software (ROS2 Humble/Iron via Docker), Loki can autonomously map a room (Cartographer SLAM), navigate with Nav2, explore unknown spaces, and be driven manually via keyboard teleop.

What you get in this Program:

• The 3D-printable STL parts for the round chassis, head, bumpers, battery pack, and sensor mounting plates (choose the plate matching your LiDAR model)
• A learning-mode control stub (drive + stop) that runs in the orobot IDE, so you can explore the Program Editor pattern before wiring up the real Kaia.ai ROS2 stack
• The real build: 3D print the parts, assemble per the official videos, flash the kaiaai/firmware Arduino sketch to an ESP32, then bring up ROS2 via the Kaia.ai Docker setup

Attribution: Design, firmware, and ROS2 packages by Ilia O. / Maker's Pet (REMAKE.AI), licensed Apache 2.0. Source: https://github.com/makerspet/makerspet_loki (STL/CAD files live in the companion repo https://github.com/makerspet/3d_models, firmware in https://github.com/kaiaai/firmware).

Hardware note: Loki's real self-driving stack (ROS2, Cartographer SLAM, Nav2) runs on the ESP32 + micro-ROS + a companion PC/laptop over WiFi, not on orobot's own firmware. This Program's device code is a simplified learning stub for the orobot IDE — full autonomous behavior requires following the upstream build/bring-up instructions.