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BRUCE Westwood Robotics
70 cm
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BRUCE
Shipping 2022 Business
Kid-size open-platform bipedal humanoid with 16 DoF and proprioceptive actuators, sold for robotics research and education.
Overview
BRUCE (Bipedal Robot Unit with Compliance Enhanced) is a kid-size open humanoid platform developed with UCLA's RoMeLa lab and sold by Westwood Robotics, maker of THEMIS. It stands 70 cm and weighs 4.8 kg, with 16 degrees of freedom (5 per leg, 3 per arm) driven by proprioceptive BEAR actuators including liquid-cooled knees, plus about 6 TOPS of onboard compute and a 6-axis IMU. It walks out of the box, ships with a wireless e-stop gamepad in a carry-on case, and lists at $8,950 on the official Westwood Robotics store. Aimed at university labs and dynamic-locomotion researchers.
Use cases
Bipedal locomotion research Reinforcement-learning experiments University robotics education
Capability evidence
- Liquid-cooled dynamic actuationBRUCE is a 70 cm kid-size open-platform biped equipped with a liquid-cooled knee actuator for more human-like, dynamic leg movement. TechEBlog ↗ · 2022-12
- Learned humanoid walkingIn the SAIR Lab, BRUCE has been used for research on walking via self-supervised footstep planning (iWalker), plus stair climbing, object tracking and push recovery. SAIR Lab ↗ · 2025-01
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