Catbot

Quadruped Hybrid Pneumatic-Electric Robot. Utilizes McKibben Muscles for bio-inpired locomotion.

Setup

Docker Dev Container

• Install Docker
• ctrl+shift+p -> Dev Containers: Reopen in Container

Set up the Python environment

Install uv and use the Catbot CLI. On the Raspberry Pi this keeps ROS Humble's system Python ABI while uv manages the project dependencies in a user-local environment.

npm install -g .
catbot setup

For development from the current checkout, use catbot setup -D and pass -D to later commands.

Run script

Build the packages:

• colcon build To run the UI package:
• ros2 run ui ui

Install dependencies

• install uv
• install nodejs

Install nodejs dependencies and catbot-cli

Run the following command in the terminal:

npm install -g .
catbot setup

For more command information goto catbot-cli

Contributing

Before contributing

Make sure to read the documentation in the wiki. Questions with the documentation are welcomed in the issues tab.