TurtleBot 3 Waffle

Canonical robot record

Overview

The TurtleBot3 Waffle is one of the models in ROBOTIS's TurtleBot3 family, a line of small, affordable, customizable ROS-based mobile robots intended for education, research, hobby projects, and product prototyping. The Waffle was the larger of the original two TurtleBot3 platforms and used Intel's Joule single-board computer as its onboard brain.

Like the rest of the TurtleBot3 line, the Waffle was built on an improved modular design meant to supplement the function of its predecessors, offering high flexibility and an easily upgradable structure so users could reconfigure the chassis and add components for their own applications.

ROBOTIS has discontinued the original Waffle because the Intel Joule single-board computer it relied on reached end-of-life. The Raspberry Pi-based Waffle Pi has taken its place as the actively supported wheeled TurtleBot3 platform.

RoboZaps maintains this record as part of its canonical robotics database. Specs are source-verified where linked; the record compares public facts across manufacturers rather than representing a single robot maker.