Awesome Open Source Robotics

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A curated list of inspiring and impactful open-source robotics projects, tools, and resources.

This list is intentionally selective. For the full database with BOMs, assembly guides, and detailed information, visit Open Source Robotics.

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Contents

• Projects
  • Robotic Arms
  • Robotic Hands
  • Legged Robots
  • Humanoids
  • Drones & UAV
  • Agriculture
  • Medical & Assistive
• Software & Frameworks
• Foundation Models
• Simulators
• Benchmarks
• Datasets
• Research
  • Papers
  • Books
  • Courses
• Events
• People to Follow
• Podcasts
• YouTube Channels
• Blogs
• Inspiring Companies
• Updates
• License

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Projects

A curated selection of notable open-source robotics projects.

Robotic Arms

• SO-101 Open Robot Arm 6-DOF robot arm for teleoperation and AI robotics research

• BCN3D Moveo Open-source 3D printed robotic arm for education

• OpenArm 7DOF humanoid arm for physical AI research in contact-rich environments

Robotic Hands

• Aero Hand Open Tendon-driven robotic hand: 389g, $314, 7 DOF with Python SDK and ROS2

• TRLC-DK1 Bimanual robot platform for humanoid data collection with LeRobot

• LEAP Hand Low-cost anthropomorphic hand with 16 DOF for robot learning

• Delta X Soft Gripper $10 DIY food-grade soft gripper using 3D-printed molds and silicone

• DexHand v2.3 Open-source dexterous hand design from The Robot Studio and NVIDIA

• OpenBionics Prosthetic Hands Affordable 3D-printed prosthetic hand designs for research and assistive use

Legged Robots

• Solo12 Lightweight 12-DOF quadruped robot for legged locomotion research with torque-controlled actuators

• Open-Source Leg Open-source robotic prosthetic leg platform with hardware designs and Python SDK

Humanoids

• Mobile ALOHA $32k whole-body teleoperation system for bimanual mobile manipulation

• LeKiwi Low-cost holonomic mobile manipulator with SO-ARM101 and LeRobot

• HOPEJr DIY humanoid robot with 66 DOF, 3D-printed parts, and LeRobot support

• TienKung 3.0 Open-source full-size humanoid robot platform for locomotion and manipulation research

Drones & UAV

• ArduPilot Leading open-source autopilot for drones, planes, rovers, and submarines

• PX4 Autopilot Professional open-source flight controller for drones and autonomous vehicles

• OpenDroneMap Photogrammetry toolkit for processing drone imagery into maps and 3D models

• QGroundControl Cross-platform ground control station for MAVLink-based drones

• Paparazzi UAV Complete open-source autopilot system for fixed-wing and multirotor UAVs

• Flix Educational open-source quadcopter flight controller on ESP32

Agriculture

• FarmBot Open-source CNC farming robot for automated precision agriculture

• OpenWeedLocator Low-cost, open-source weed detection for site-specific spraying

• Acorn Precision Farming Rover Solar-powered autonomous rover for small-scale regenerative farming

Medical & Assistive

• SOFA Framework Physics simulation framework for medical robotics, surgical training, and soft body modeling

• da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) Open-source research platform for the da Vinci surgical robot system

• Assistive Gym Physics simulation for training assistive robots in caregiving tasks

• BioAmp EXG Pill Tiny biosignal acquisition board for EMG, ECG, EEG, and EOG research

Software & Frameworks

Essential tools and frameworks for robotics development.

• LeRobot HuggingFace ML library for real-world robotics in PyTorch

• ROS 2 Next-gen Robot Operating System for real-time production robotics

• Dora AI Dataflow middleware for AI robotics applications, built in Rust

• Open-RMF Open Robot Management Framework for multi-fleet robot coordination

• openTCS Transport control system for coordinating fleets of autonomous vehicles

• RLinf Scalable infrastructure for post-training foundation models via RL

• Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots RL system for legged robot parkour trained in under 20 hours

Foundation Models

AI models for robotics and embodied intelligence.

• OpenPI Physical Intelligence VLA foundation models for general robot control

• NVIDIA Isaac GR00T NVIDIA open foundation model for humanoid robot reasoning and skills

• OpenVLA 7B-parameter Vision-Language-Action model for robotic manipulation

• ACT (Action Chunking with Transformers) Transformer-based policy learning for bimanual manipulation

• SmolVLA 450M parameter VLA model that runs on consumer hardware

• RynnBrain Robotic foundation model from Alibaba DAMO Academy for generalized robot control

Simulators

Physics simulators and virtual environments for robotics development and testing.

• GENESIS World's fastest physics engine: 43M FPS for embodied AI learning

• MuJoCo DeepMind physics engine for robotics and ML research

• Isaac Lab NVIDIA unified robotics learning framework on Isaac Sim

• ManiSkill GPU-parallelized simulation for generalizable manipulation skills

• NVIDIA Isaac Sim NVIDIA Omniverse app for AI-driven robot simulation and testing

• SurRoL RL-based simulation platform for surgical robot learning

Benchmarks

Standardized benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for robotics research.

• MetaWorld Multi-task and meta RL benchmark for robotic manipulation

• RLBench 100+ task benchmark for vision-guided manipulation research

• LIBERO Lifelong robot learning benchmark with 130 procedural tasks

• CALVIN Language-conditioned manipulation benchmark for long-horizon tasks

Datasets

Training datasets for robot learning and research.

• Open X-Embodiment (OXE) Largest open robotics dataset: 1M+ episodes from 22 embodiments

• DROID 76K robot manipulation trajectories from 564 diverse scenes

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Research

Papers

• Instant Policy: In-Context Imitation Learning via Graph Diffusion - ICLR 2025 Robot Learning Workshop (Best Paper Award)

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Books

• Dancing with Roomba: Cracking the Robot Riddle and Building an Icon by Joseph L. Jones

• Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control by Kevin M. Lynch, Frank C. Park

• Probabilistic Robotics by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox

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Courses

• Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control Specialization on Coursera

• HuggingFace Robotics Course on Hugging Face

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Events

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

• Humanoids Summit

• NeurIPS - Neural Information Processing Systems

• CoRL - Conference on Robot Learning

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People to Follow

• Angela Schoellig (University of Toronto)

• Audrow Nash

• Chelsea Finn (Stanford University)

• Deepak Pathak (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley)

• Rémi Cadène (UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant))

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Podcasts

• Audrow Nash Podcast

• RoboPapers

• The Robot Brains Podcast

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YouTube Channels

• Skyentific

• CMU Robotics Institute

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Blogs

Robotics blogs and newsletters worth following.

• Six Degrees of Robotics by Christopher Sanchez

• State of Robot Learning — Dec 2025 by Kyle Vedder

• We All Are Robots by Lukas Ziegler

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Inspiring Companies

Robotics companies and research labs pushing the boundaries.

• 1X Technologies Developing general-purpose humanoid robots with scalable automation.

• Agility Robotics Creators of Digit, a bipedal robot for real-world logistics.

• Apptronik Innovators in humanoid robots, including Apollo.

• Boston Dynamics Industry leader in dynamic robots like Spot and Atlas.

• Enchanted Tools Creators of Miroka, emotionally engaging humanoid-like robots.

• Engineered Arts Creators of Ameca, advanced humanoid robots for human interaction.

• Hanson Robotics Developers of lifelike humanoid robots like Sophia.

• Sunday Building Memo, a household robot trained on 10 million real-world chores using...

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Updates

Weekly platform updates with new projects, features, and what we're working on.

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License

This list is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal.

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Contributing

Suggestions welcome! Visit Open Source Robotics to suggest new content or open an issue in this repository.

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