Zowi Biped

163 stars on GitHub · CC-BY-SA 4.0 · bq / JavierIH

Zowi is the official open-source biped from bq (sponsored until 2016) — a compact 4-servo educational walking robot, descended from the Otto/BoB Thingiverse lineage (original concept by k120189, Thingiverse 43708). Designed entirely in FreeCAD so every part is editable and remixable. Licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://github.com/JavierIH/zowi

Hardware:

• 4 Futaba S3003 (or compatible) servos
• BQ ZUM BT328 or Arduino-compatible board
• 4xAAA battery holder

The repository ships the canonical body/chassis/leg/foot STLs plus a deep mods folder with remix variants: Forge, IronZowi, JIM, Kobuki, MicroRaider, Scopum, Zowarrior, Zowimanoid, Zowiquilator. Also includes Arduino code, schematics, and Spanish-language docs.

Resources:

• Original Thingiverse concept: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:43708
• DIWO blog (Spanish): http://diwo.bq.com/zowi-introduccion-a-los-robots-bipedos/

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Printing

Zowi is a 4-servo biped (Otto-family). The complete printed set is just five parts: body, chassis, leg, footL, and footR. Print one of each. footL and footR are a mirror pair (left and right feet) and are both required — they are not alternates.

The LED-matrix mouth and ultrasonic/sensor modules are off-the-shelf electronics and are not printed.

This Print All list was cleaned up to contain only the canonical Zowi parts. The upstream source repository also hosts several community remixes/mods (e.g. Forge, IronZowi, JIM) with their own arms, hands, heads, shields, and full-body redesigns; those are separate alternate builds, not part of the stock 4-servo Zowi, and have been removed along with a set of duplicate re-imported core files so the list yields exactly one buildable robot.