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Awesome Robotics Project

A list of open-source, affordable, less-known, or visionary robotics projects.

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General

Animatronic Eye Mechanism

Animatronic Eye Mechanism from https://nmrobots.com/

ANYMal C

Autonomous four-legged robot

AWS DeepRacer

Autonomous 1/18th scale race car designed to test RL models

BCN3D

Open Source 3D Printed Robotic Arm for educational purposes

Berkeley Humanoid Lite

An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot

In 2 lists

BetaBot

3d printable Robot arm

BiDexHand

BiDexHand: Open-Source 16-DoF Biomimetic Dexterous Hand

Bobble-Bot

Demonstration robot for learning principles of real-time control

CHAMP

𓃡 CHAMP Quadruped Controller ROS Package

In 3 lists

CyPhyHouse : a toolchain for distributed robotics

CyPhyHouse : a toolchain for distributed robotics

DG-5F

A robotic hand capable of human-level gripping and manipulation

Dobb-E

Open-source, general framework for learning household robotic manipulation

DUMMY

The Robot Arm Is Not So Dumb

ExoMy

The 3D printed rover developed by the European Space Agency

Forte

Strong, Accurate, and Low-Cost Robot Manipulator

GoodBoy

3D Printed Arduino Robot Dog

JPL Open Source Rover Project

Open-source 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars

In 4 lists

Just1

How I built a small autonomous robot ...

K-Bot

The K-Scale Robot

LeRobot

State-of-the-art AI for real-world robotics

In 6 listsDetails

LHF connect

A small semi-autonomous device that connects patients in isolation with the people they love

Linorobot

Suite of low-cost open-source mobile robots

In 3 lists

MABEL

A Boston Dynamics inspired balancing robot

Magni

Affordable robotic mobile base with 100kg payload

Maker's Pet

Extremely low-cost open-source 3D-printed Arduino/ROS2 home pet robot

In 2 lists

MuSHR

Affordable, open-source robotic race car

NanoSaur

NVIDIA Jetson dinosaur robot, fully 3D printable, ROS2 competible

Nguyen Vincent's omnidirectional ROS2 robot

Making an omnidirectional ROS2 robot. No talking, no music. Just building.

Niryo One

3D printed 6 axis robotic arm

NVIDIA ISSAC PLATFORM

Robotic AI Development Platform with Simulation, Navigation and Manipulation

Nybble

Open-source robotic cat

In 2 lists

Open Duck Mini v2

Making a mini version of the BDX droid. https://discord.gg/UtJZsgfQGe

In 2 lists

Open Dynamic Robot Initiative

An Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research

In 3 lists

Open-Source Robotic Arm

Open-source robotic arm using PC with ROS, STM32, and CAN bus

OpenBot

Turning Smartphones into Robots

Openmanipulator

Open-software/hardware/embedded-board robotic arm

OpenPodcar

Open source hardware design and software for OpenPodcar.

OpenΒionics

Open-source initiative for the development of robotic and bionic devices

Poppy Project

Open-source platform for interactive 3D printed robots

PyRobot

Python package for running experiments in robot learning

PythonRobotics

Python sample codes for robotics algorithms

Reachy 2

Open-source humanoid robot

ROBEL

Collection of affordable, reliable hardware robot designs

RoboArm

robot arm

RoboPrime

Full featured 21 DOF 3D Printed Humanoid Robot based on ATmega328P chip

Robotics Middleware Framework

Task queuing, conflict-free resource scheduling, utilities to help create robot fleet adapters, and so on

ROSbot 2.0

Open source mobile robot platform

RUKA

Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning

Stanford Doggo

Open-source quadruped robot

In 2 lists

Thor

DIY 3D printable robotic arm

TriFinger

An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity

TurtleBot

Low-cost, personal robot kit with open-source software

In 2 lists

UMIRobot

A simple 3D printable robot arm with open-source hardware and software.

Vine Robots

Soft continuum robots design with low-cost fabrication in mind and for the navigation of difficult environments.

Walter

6DOF Industrial Robot, vintage style

Library, Framework, SDK >Robots

boston-dynamics/spot-sdk

Spot SDK

copper-project/copper-rs

Robot SDK in Rust (deterministic and high performance)

In 2 lists

facebookresearch/home-robot

Mobile manipulation research tools for roboticists

facebookresearch/pyrobot

PyRobot: An Open Source Robotics Research Platform

resibots/minitaur_sdk

Minitaur SDK extension

robotemi/sdk

temi SDK

unitreerobotics/unitree_sdk2

Unitree robot sdk version 2

Library, Framework, SDK >Autonomous Driving

ApolloAuto/apollo

An open autonomous driving platform

In 5 listsDetails

autowarefoundation/autoware.universe

Open-source software for self-driving vehicles

commaai/openpilot

openpilot is an open source driver assistance system.

In 5 listsDetails

Library, Framework, SDK >ML & Vision

any4lerobot

A collection of utilities and tools for LeRobot

borglab/gtsam

Georgia Tech Smoothing and Mapping Library

In 3 lists

facebookresearch/theseus

A library for differentiable nonlinear optimization

KFCore

A lightweight, high-performance Kalman Filter library in C, C++, and MATLAB

nano-pgo

For an education purpose, from-scratch, single-file, python-only pose-graph optimization implementation

openMVG/openMVG

open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion.

In 3 lists

CRISP

Compliant ROS2 Controllers for Learning-Based Manipulation Policies

Command Line Tools

linux_isolate_process

ros command

Unifying the ROS command line tools

ROSA

The ROS Agent

ROSBoard

ROS node that runs a web server on your robot.

Pixi: Modern package management for Robotics

TermViz - ROS visualization on the terminal

Data Visualization & UI

A-FRAME

A web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences

In 6 listsDetails

AR.js

Augmented Reality on the Web

CloudPeek

Lightweight, cross-platform, single-header C++ point cloud viewer

In 2 lists

Lanelet2

C++ library for handling map data in the context of automated driving

In 2 lists

mujoco-scene-editor

Lightweight, interactive scene editor for MuJoCo scenes

phntm_bridge_client

Fast WebRTC + Socket.io ROS2 Bridge for real-time data and video streaming, teleoperation, HRI, and remote robot monitoring

Realtime robot data visualization in the browser

rerun.io

Open source visualization infrastructure for computer vision and robotics

In 2 lists

ROS Reality

Connect a ROS-enabled robot to Unity

ros2_bag_exporter

ROS2 Bag Exporter is a ROS 2 c++ package designed to export ROS 2 bag files (rosbag2) into various formats

rosetta — ROS 2 ⇄ LeRobot bridge

Standardizes the interface between ROS 2 topics and LeRobot policies using a small YAML contract

URDF-Architect

URDF-Architect is a web-based visual URDF robot modeler with 3D workspace, structured skeleton/detail/hardware workflows, motor library integration, MuJoCo export, and AI assistance.

URDFormer

code release for URDFormer

web-based visualization libraries

A web based application for playback and visualization of ROS bag files made by Cruise Automation. Licence: Apache 2.0.

In 3 lists

Simulators

AI Habitat

AI Habitat enables training of embodied AI agents in a highly photorealistic & efficient 3D simulator

In 2 lists

CARLA

Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research

In 2 lists

Flightmare

A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator

Gazebo

Gazebo is an open-source 3D robotics simulator

In 4 lists

Gibson

Gibson is a perceptual and physics Simulator

LIBERO

Benchmarking Knowledge Transfer in Lifelong Robot Learning

MetaDrive

Open-source Driving Simulator for AI and Autonomy Research

In 2 lists

MORSE

The open-source simulator for academic robotics

In 2 lists

MuJoCo

Advanced physics simulation

In 3 lists

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Simulate, test and iterate virtual robots in a high fidelity 3D environment

OmniGibson

A platform for accelerating Embodied AI research built upon NVIDIA's Omniverse engine

Open 3D Engine (O3DE)

An Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.

In 5 listsDetails

Project dave

A simulation environment to support the rapid testing and evaluation of underwater robotic solutions

SimplerEnv

Simulated Manipulation Policy Evaluation Environments for Real Robot Setups

In 2 lists

Unity Robotics Hub

Central repository for tools, tutorials, resources, and documentation for robotics simulation in Unity

In 4 lists

Webots

Open source robot simulator

In 2 lists

ZeroSimROSUnity

Robotic simulation in Unity with ROS integration

Dataset

nvidia/PhysicalAI-Autonomous-Vehicles

PhysicalAI Autonomous Vehicles

YCB Benchmarks – Object and Model Set

YCB Benchmarks – Object and Model Set

Deployment

ROS Kubernetes / KubeEdge

Kuberenetes / ROS&ROS2 Cluster Samples

Hardware Communities

adafruit

"Adafruit designs, manufactures and sells a number of electronics products, electronics components, tools and accessories."

In 2 lists

hackaday

and hackaday.io - "Hackaday.io is the world's largest collaborative hardware development community."

In 3 lists

hackster.io

"Hackster is a community dedicated to learning hardware, from beginner to pro."

In 2 lists

instructables

"Instructables is a community for people who like to make things."

In 2 lists

Conferences & Events

Amazon re:MARS

Global AI event for Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space

BARS

Bay Area Robotics Symposium

BazelCon

The premier annual event to strengthen and unify the Bazel Community

COMMA_CON

IRL event full of technical talks from comma's openpilot, research, infrastructure, and hardware teams

CppCon

The annual, week-long face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community

In 2 lists

MODEX

The Premier Supply Chain Event

Robotics Summit & Expo

The International Design and Development Event for Robotics and Intelligent Systems

ROSCon

The robotics conference for developers

TEROS

Texas Regional Robotics Symposium

Newsletter

Evan Ackerman's Twitter feed

IEEE SPECTRUM - Robotics

The Robot Report

The Verge - Robot

Weekly Robotics

. A weekly newsletter with news, projects and research related to robotics.

In 2 lists

Newsletter >Bloggers

https://engmanage.substack.com/

https://generalrobots.substack.com/

https://geohot.github.io/blog/

https://itcanthink.substack.com/

https://medium.com/@elliotgraebert

https://mjyc.github.io/blog/

https://mtmason.com/matt-mason-robotics-blog/

https://ranchhandrobotics.com/

https://roboticseabass.com/about/

https://rodneybrooks.com/blog/

https://sergeylevine.substack.com/

Robotics Tooling Companies

Airbotics

Open-source software deployment platform for robotics

Applied Intuition

ADAS and AV simulation and development tools

Artificial

Redefining Lab Automation Software

Autoware.AI

the world's first "All-in-One" open-source software for autonomous driving technology

In 2 lists

AWS RoboMaker

Simulate and deploy robotic applications at cloud scale

In 2 lists

cogniteam

Standout software solutions for autonomous robots

Ekumen

We are an international engineering boutique, provider of advanced software development services and technology

FogROS2

a framework that allows existing ROS 2 automation applications to gain access to additional computing resources from commercial cloud-based services

FogROS

a framework that allows existing ROS automation applications to gain access to additional computing resources from commercial cloud-based services (deprecated)

Formant

Speak Robot; Intelligent platform for robotic fleets

Freedom robotics

POWERFUL CONTROL AND MONITORING FOR ROBOTS

Generalist

Honu Robotics

Expert partners for your next innovation

InOrbit

MISSION CONTROL for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

KABAM Robotics

WORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL YOUR ROBOTS & SMART DEVICES

Lightwheel-Platform Enterprise

Make Simulation Successful

micropsi industries

Automate Manual Workstations Yourself

miru

Configuration Management for Robotics

Nema

AI agents that accelerate robotics hardware design

Open Navigation LLC

Your Friendly Neighborhood Navigators

PHANTOM AI

Democratizing advanced driver assistance systems

Physical Intelligence (π)

Rapyuta Robotics

We make robots attainable and useful

rethink robotics

Rethink Robotics Meets German Engineering

Roboto

Curating the world's robotics data

ROS Development Studio

Develop your ROS project from a single place online

ROSbloX

Your ultimate building blocks for rapidly creating a robot's software stack.

RosHub

Manage one robot or entire fleets

scale

The Data Platform for AI

SEMIO

bringing robots to life

SLAMCore

Spatial Intelligence for robots and machines

SOUTHIE AUTONOMY

Easy, Flexible Automation for Contract Packaging

TANGRAM

The Modern Perception Platform

Transitive Robotics

Open-core, Full-stack Robotic Software Capabilities

Vinci

Powering the future of hardware design

Windows 10 IoT + ROS

Bringing the intelligent edge to robots with ROS on Windows 10 and Azure

YOU ONLY NEED ONE HUB

Cloud-based system for designing, sharing, and evaluating Autonomous Vehicles, ADAS, and Robotics.

Robotics Tooling Companies >Deployment & DevEnv

balena

The infrastructure you need to develop, deploy, and manage fleets of connected devices at scale

In 3 lists

MENDER

Over-the-Air Software Updates for IoT Devices

Synpse

Deploy. Monitor. Manage.

aviator

Keep builds green with a highly customizable merge queue

DevZero

More time writing code.

miru

Configuration Management for Robotics

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