E-puck mobile robot

The e-puck is a small (7 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot.

It was originally designed for micro-engineering education by Michael Bonani and Francesco Mondada at the ASL laboratory of Prof. Roland Siegwart at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).

The e-puck is open hardware and its onboard software is open-source, and is built[1] and sold[2] by several companies.

New modules can be stacked on top of the e-puck; the following extensions are available:[3] Since the e-puck is open hardware, its price is lower than competitors.

[4] This is leading to a rapid adoption by the scientific community in research[5] despite the original educational orientation of the robot.