Awesome Robotics Project

A list of open-source, affordable, less-known, or visionary robotics projects ... aaand robotics tooling companies I find interesting.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Just1 - How I built a small autonomous robot ...
• K-Bot - The K-Scale Robot
• LeRobot - State-of-the-art AI for real-world robotics
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Open Duck Mini v2 - Making a mini version of the BDX droid. https://discord.gg/UtJZsgfQGe
• Open Dynamic Robot Initiative - An Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research
• 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
• Thor - DIY 3D printable robotic arm
• TriFinger - An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity
• TurtleBot - Low-cost, personal robot kit with open-source software
• 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)
• 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
• Anki Cozmo Python SDK, C# SDK, and PyCozmo
• unitreerobotics/unitree_sdk2 - Unitree robot sdk version 2

Autonomous Driving

• ApolloAuto/apollo - An open autonomous driving platform
• autowarefoundation/autoware.universe - Open-source software for self-driving vehicles
• commaai/openpilot - openpilot is an open source driver assistance system.

ML & Vision

• any4lerobot - A collection of utilities and tools for LeRobot
• borglab/gtsam - Georgia Tech Smoothing and Mapping Library
• 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.
• 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
• AR.js - Augmented Reality on the Web
• CloudPeek - Lightweight, cross-platform, single-header C++ point cloud viewer
• Lanelet2 - C++ library for handling map data in the context of automated driving
• 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
• 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

Simulators

that are physically accurate, photo realistic, or roboticist friendly.

• AI Habitat - AI Habitat enables training of embodied AI agents in a highly photorealistic & efficient 3D simulator
• CARLA - Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research
• Flightmare - A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator
• Gazebo - Gazebo is an open-source 3D robotics simulator
• 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
• MORSE - The open-source simulator for academic robotics
• MuJoCo - Advanced physics simulation
• 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.
• 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
• Unity Robotics Hub - Central repository for tools, tutorials, resources, and documentation for robotics simulation in Unity
• Webots - Open source robot simulator
• 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."
• hackaday and hackaday.io - "Hackaday.io is the world's largest collaborative hardware development community."
• hackster.io - "Hackster is a community dedicated to learning hardware, from beginner to pro."
• instructables - "Instructables is a community for people who like to make things."

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
• 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
• TechCrunch: Robotics category, robotics tag

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
• AWS RoboMaker - Simulate and deploy robotic applications at cloud scale
• 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.

Deployment & DevEnv

but not robotics-specific

• balena - The infrastructure you need to develop, deploy, and manage fleets of connected devices at scale
• 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 - Deployment Infrastructure for Robotics and IoT

Related Awesome Lists

• Awesome HRI Datasets and Human Simulators
• Awesome Human Robot Interaction
• Awesome Projects
• Awesome Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2)
• Awesome Robotic Tooling
• Awesome Robotics Conferences and Schools (torydebra)
• Awesome Robotics Libraries
• Awesome Robotics (ahundt)
• Awesome Robotics (Kiloreux)
• Awesome Weekly Robotics
• awesome-cloud-robotics

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