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Direct Drive Tech DIABLO
Direct Drive Tech · Starting from $4,399 · Get a current price
Overview
DIABLO (Chinese name Xingtian) is Direct Drive Tech's self-balancing two-wheel-legged robot, billed by the maker as the first fully direct-drive wheeled biped. Six direct-drive joints, a flange-connected modular body and a Raspberry Pi 4 controller make it an open development platform for delivery, patrol and payload-carrying add-ons.
Software & 3D models
- URDF: yes
- MuJoCo: not found
- Isaac Sim (USD): not found
- Gazebo: yes
- CAD (STEP): not found
- SDK: yes
- ROS: not found
- ROS 2: yes
- RoboDK: not found
Checked 2026-10-17. Links are not published; we share them with clients.
Variants & pricing
| Variant | Status | Available | Current price |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIABLO | available | — | $4,399 |
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Full price history
| Price | Date | Variant | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | 2026-10-17 | DIABLO | Direct Drive Tech official site | No public price: product page says to contact the maker for an enquiry. |
| $4,399 | 2026-10-17 | DIABLO | Top3DShop | USD 4,399.00, schema.org availability InStock, 2-3 week lead time per the listing; tax and shipping basis not stated on the page, which also carries a 'request the quote' caveat. |
| $4,399 | 2026-10-17 | DIABLO | AIFITLAB | USD 4,399.00 regular price; listing says backordered, ships when back in stock; shipping calculated at checkout. |
Locomotion
wheel-legged, self-balancing, crouch / creeping mode
Use cases
research, education, delivery, inspection, secondary development
Key facts
- Official spec table (Chinese product page, read 2026-10-17): standing size 540x371x491 mm, crouched 540x371x270 mm, 22.9 kg including the coupling mechanism, 6 DoF, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Ubuntu 20.04, OTA upgrades and power-loss protection supported.
- Payload is 4 kg standing and 80 kg in crouched (creeping) mode; maximum continuous speed 2 m/s; jump height 80 mm.
- Battery 0.178 kWh (220 V charger, 235.2 W), about 1.5 h runtime, about 1 h standard charge time, per the official table.
- Maker claims about 30% longer runtime from the direct-drive design and a development cycle for wheeled chassis cut by at least 20% through modular design (official page, marketing claims, not measured).
- Reseller AIFITLAB additionally lists operation noise under 49 dB and about 3 h standing time at 25 C; these are not on the official page and are not used in the specs.
- Category note: DIABLO is a wheel-legged biped, filed under quadruped only because the catalog has no wheel-legged category.
- RobotShop (reported at USD 5,999) and Generation Robots (reported at GBP 5,293 incl. VAT) listings were not retrievable on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 403 / no product on the fetched page) and are not recorded as prices.
- Software flags sdk, ros_support and open_source are recorded false only because the official page states none of them; they are not confirmed absences.
- 'First fully direct-drive self-balancing wheel-legged robot' is the maker's own claim; no independent source was fetched.
About Direct Drive Tech
Chinese maker of direct-drive and quasi-direct-drive wheel-legged robots (DIABLO, TITA, D1) for inspection, delivery and secondary development. Chinese name 本末科技 / 本末动力.
https://robotics.directdrive.com · Founded: None · HQ: China (city not verified)
Last updated: 2026-10-17 · Full dataset (CSV/JSON, CC BY 4.0)