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XGO Robot
XGO Rider AI Desktop Wheel-Legged Robot
$567.15
The XGO Rider costs $567.15. It is a desk-sized two-wheeled robot that balances itself on legged suspension, driven by direct-drive hub motors and magnetic-encoder servos, built around a Raspberry Pi compute module — CM5 on the Rider 2, CM4 on the original. You program it in Python or in blocks, and voice interaction, gesture, face and skeleton recognition all work out of the box. Its Kickstarter raised $602,285.
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product typedesktop wheel-legged AI robot
main modelXGO-RIDER 2 / XGO-Rider
movementtwo-wheel self-balancing wheel-legged locomotion
motion featureomnidirectional movement
joint system360° magnetic encoder servos in shoulder joints
wheel systemFOC direct-drive hub motors
roll angle±20°
core moduleRaspberry Pi CM5 for XGO-RIDER 2; Raspberry Pi CM4 referenced for earlier XGO-Rider campaign
Before you buy
Where to buy the XGO Rider
XGO Robot sells the Rider at xgorobot.com, and MetaOriental links there rather than shipping it. The XGO Rider costs $567.15.
Who the XGO Rider is for
The XGO Rider is a learning platform rather than a companion robot — it is aimed at students, teachers and hobbyists working through robotics and Python. The robot balances on two wheel-legs with magnetic encoder servos in the shoulders and direct-drive hub motors, and it runs on Raspberry Pi so the code is yours to change. Buy it to program it; it does nothing useful out of the box on purpose.
Is the XGO Rider worth $567.15?
At $567.15 the Rider costs more than a Raspberry Pi kit and less than a research platform, which is roughly where its capability sits. Anyone who wants a robot that already works will find this frustrating, because the point is the unfinished part. For a classroom or a self-taught engineer, self-balancing wheel-leg locomotion is a much harder problem to build from scratch than the price gap suggests.
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