EarthRover Mini Plus
Small four-wheel-drive outdoor rover from FrodoBots with front and rear cameras. It has no arm. LeRobot connects to it through the cloud using the FrodoBots Earth Rovers SDK, which must be running locally, and it is driven by keyboard for navigation datasets.
open hardwareLeRobot native since 0.4.3verified 2026-10-24aka Earth Rover Mini Plus, EarthRover Mini+, Earth Rover MINI+, earthrover_mini_plus, FrodoBots EarthRover
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No verified evidence, but both are available in LeRobot (ecosystem context): ACT, Diffusion Policy, EO-1, Evo-1, Fast-WAM, GR00T N1.7, HIL-SERL, LingBot-VA, MolmoAct2, Multitask DiT, π0-FAST, π0, π0.5, SmolVLA, TD-MPC, VLA-JEPA, VQ-BeT, WALL-OSS, X-VLA.
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Specifications
- Arms
- 0
- Homepage
- github.com/frodobots-org/earth-rovers-sdk
- Teleoperation
- Keyboard, WASD (keyboard_rover)
Per the FrodoBots SDK README, the MINI+ has two cameras (front and rear, 1080p sensors streamed at 1024x576 and 480x270), an MPU6050 IMU, two motors with four-wheel drive, 1.4 kg weight, 4 km/h top speed and a 12 km range. Hardware sources, firmware and 3D-print files are in FrodoBots' earth-rover-mini repository, where GitHub detects no license file, so the license is left blank. No camera preset in this matrix matches a front+rear rover pair. Price is not recorded because the FrodoBots shop is not machine-readable.
Framework support
Sources
- T1 · upstream documentedofficial-docssource 2026-08-03verified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)lerobot 0.6.1
LeRobot README lists EarthRover among natively supported hardware.
“SO100, LeKiwi, Koch, HopeJR, OMX, EarthRover, Reachy2, Gamepads, Keyboards, Phones, OpenARM, Unitree G1, reBot B601.”
https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/v0.6.1/README.md - T1 · upstream documentedofficial-docssource 2026-08-03verified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)lerobot 0.6.1
LeRobot guide: cloud-connected via the FrodoBots SDK.
“The EarthRover Mini Plus is a fully open source mobile robot that connects through the cloud using the Frodobots SDK.”
https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/v0.6.1/docs/source/earthrover_mini_plus.mdx - T1 · upstream documentedsource-codesource 2026-08-03verified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)lerobot 0.6.1
Registers earthrover_mini_plus.
“@RobotConfig.register_subclass("earthrover_mini_plus")”
https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/v0.6.1/src/lerobot/robots/earthrover_mini_plus/config_earthrover_mini_plus.py - T1 · upstream documentedrelease-notessource 2026-01-22verified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)lerobot 0.4.3
EarthRover Mini Plus first released in v0.4.3.
“feat(robots): Earth Rover Mini Plus integration by @imstevenpmwork in https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/pull/2575”
https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/releases/tag/v0.4.3 - T1 · upstream documentedvendor-docsverified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)
FrodoBots SDK README: MINI+ chassis, cameras, IMU, and hardware-source repository.
“- **Chassis**: 1.4 kg (car only), 95 mm wheels, two motors with four-wheel drive, turns on the spot, IP34, 18° max slope, 12 km range per charge, top speed 4 km/h.”
https://github.com/frodobots-org/earth-rovers-sdk/blob/1fc6890308988ead376561e2bc9cee0620a63a37/README.md