Mini Pi rendered in ARMOR
Mobile & Legged bipedal legged locomotion open-source hardware research platform 12 DOF

Mini Pi

by High Torque Technology Co., Ltd. (HighTorque Robotics)

HighTorque Robotics' compact bipedal walking platform — a 12-DOF, arms-free legged robot built for gait and locomotion research, small and light enough to pick up with one hand.

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Model

13Links
12Joints
12Actuated DOF
14Meshes

Mesh formats: STL

Mini Pi is HighTorque Robotics’ compact bipedal walking platform — 12 actuated degrees of freedom across two legs, with no arms, waist, or head. HighTorque markets it as a “bipedal robot,” a deliberately distinct product line from the arm-and-head-equipped Mini Hi and Mini Pi+, which the company calls “humanoid robots.” At around 520 mm tall and 7 kg, it’s light enough to pick up with one hand.

The mechanism

Twelve actuated revolute joints, 6 per leg (hip pitch/roll, thigh, calf, ankle pitch/roll) — no mimic joints, no closed kinematic loops, no upper body at all. Built purely for gait and locomotion-control research.

About this file — read before importing

This links directly to HighTorque-Robotics/ht_robot_urdf, HighTorque Robotics’ own repository — specifically its pi_12dof/ package, one of three sibling robot descriptions in the same monorepo (the others are Mini Hi and Mini Pi+). ARMOR links directly to the repository rather than re-hosting anything, so what you get is exactly what HighTorque Robotics publishes, unmodified.

License & attribution

Source code
BSD (stated, not backed by a committed LICENSE file)
Model & mesh files
BSD (stated, not backed by a committed LICENSE file)
Attribution
ht_robot_urdf (HighTorque Robotics) — pi_12dof/package.xml declares BSD, but no LICENSE file has ever been committed anywhere in the repository (confirmed via the full git history, not just the current tree).

ARMOR does not host or redistribute this model. Choosing “Open in ARMOR” downloads the files directly from High Torque Technology Co., Ltd. (HighTorque Robotics)’s own repository, unmodified. Your use of the model is governed by the license above.

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ARMOR is an independent tool published by DCDC LLC. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by HighTorque Robotics. "HighTorque" and "Mini Pi" are used here only to identify the robot this file describes. This model is downloaded directly from HighTorque Robotics' own repository. Its package.xml states a BSD license, but no LICENSE file has ever been committed to the repository — verify current terms directly with HighTorque before relying on this for anything beyond visualization.

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