Build Guide

Anatomy of a Quadruped Robot

A 2026 quadruped robot is the most engineering-mature class of legged platform you can buy. Humanoids are still arguing about hand designs and torso layouts; quadrupeds have settled. Twelve actuators,...

The Robot Sensor Stack

A modern legged robot ships with somewhere between fifteen and forty distinct sensor channels, depending on how you count. The marketing photo shows two — the LiDAR turret on top...

Anatomy of a Modern Humanoid

A 2026 humanoid robot is not one machine. It is six or seven engineering disciplines bolted together — actuators, joint control, perception, on-board compute, batteries, thermals, and (sometimes as an...

On-Device vs Off-Device Compute for Robots

Every workload on a robot lives in one of two places: on-board, riding the battery and the chest fans, or off-board, on a wall-powered server one LAN hop away. The...

Robot SDKs, ROS 2, and Simulation Environments

A 2026 robot platform — humanoid or quadruped — ships with three software stories you have to deal with before any of your own code runs. The manufacturer SDK that...

Robot Networking: Wi-Fi, Tethers, 5G, and Why L...

A humanoid is a mobile node on a network that was almost certainly designed for laptops sitting still. That mismatch is the source of roughly 95% of the "the robot...