ALOHA 2
ALOHA 2 is an open-source, low-cost bimanual teleoperation hardware platform released in February 2024 by an Google DeepMind led team working with the original ALOHA authors at Stanford University.
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AMD Kria
AMD Kria is a family of embedded system-on-modules (SOMs) and matching carrier boards sold for machine vision, robotics, motor control, and industrial automation.
AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100
The AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series is a line of embedded x86 system-on-chip processors announced by AMD on 2026-07-23 at the company's Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco, aimed at robotics…
Actuator
An actuator is a device or mechanism that converts supplied energy and a command into mechanical force, torque, or motion.
Arduino VENTUNO Q
Arduino VENTUNO Q is a single-board computer and developer board for edge AI, computer vision, and robotics. Arduino first unveiled it on March 9, 2026. Public pre-orders opened on August 25, 2026.
Artificial muscle
Artificial muscle is an umbrella term for actuator technologies that generate motion by contracting along a line, the way biological muscle shortens to pull a tendon
Atlas Electric (Boston Dynamics)
Atlas Electric is the all-electric, production-grade humanoid robot designed and manufactured by Boston Dynamics.
Axial flux motor
An axial flux motor is an electric motor in which the magnetic flux crossing the gap between rotor and stator runs parallel to the shaft, rather than radiating outward from it as in a conventional motor.
Ball screw
A ball screw is a mechanical linear-motion device that converts the rotary motion of a shaft into precise straight-line motion
Brushless DC motor
A brushless DC motor (BLDC motor) is an electric motor design in which permanent magnets are mounted on the rotating rotor and an electronic controller switches current through stationary stator windings to…
CATL
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) is a Chinese battery manufacturer based in Ningde, Fujian province, and the largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage in the world.
Coreless motor
A coreless motor, also called an ironless motor, is a small electric motor whose rotor, the spinning part, carries a self-supporting winding of copper wire with no iron core wound inside it.
Crossed-roller bearing
A crossed-roller bearing is a precision rolling element bearing that packs cylindrical rollers into a single V-shaped raceway
Electronic skin
Electronic skin (usually shortened to e-skin) is a flexible, stretchable sensing surface built to give a robot, prosthetic limb, or wearable device something close to the tactile sense of biological skin: the…
End effector
An end effector is the device mounted at the working end of a robot arm or wrist: the part that actually touches, grips, welds, or otherwise acts on the world, while the rest of the arm exists only to position…
EtherCAT
EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) is a real-time industrial Ethernet fieldbus protocol, developed by Beckhoff Automation and introduced in April 2003, that delivers microsecond-class…
Force-torque sensor
A force-torque sensor (F/T sensor) is a transducer that measures three orthogonal forces (Fx, Fy, Fz) and three torques or moments (Tx, Ty, Tz) applied simultaneously at a single point, across six degrees of…
Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry)
Foxconn, officially Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 鴻海精密工業股份有限公司; trading as Hon Hai Technology Group)
Galbot ET1
Galbot ET1 is a bipedal humanoid robot introduced by the Chinese robotics company Galbot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
Harmonic Drive
A Harmonic Drive, also known as a strain wave gear, is a precision mechanical gear reducer that achieves very high reduction ratios (roughly 30:1 to 320:1) in a single compact stage by using the controlled…
HighTorque Mini Pi+
HighTorque Mini Pi+ is a small humanoid robot platform made by High Torque Robotics. The manufacturer styles the name as Mini Pi plus, Mini Pi Plus, and Mini Pi+ across its English and Chinese materials.
Inertial Measurement Unit
An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is an electronic device that measures a body's specific force and angular rate
Intel RealSense D555
The Intel RealSense D555 (also branded simply as RealSense D555 PoE) is a stereoscopic depth camera announced in mid-2025 that is the first product in the RealSense D400 family to integrate Power over Ethernet…
Jetson Thor
NVIDIA Jetson Thor (also marketed as Jetson AGX Thor) is a Blackwell architecture edge AI computing module developed by NVIDIA that delivers up to 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI compute in a 40 to 130 watt power…
Leadscrew
A leadscrew (also written lead screw, and sometimes called a power screw) converts rotary motion into linear motion using a threaded shaft and a matching internally threaded nut that slide directly against…
LiDAR
LiDAR is an active optical sensing method that estimates distance from transmitted laser light and its return from a target.
Microduck
Microduck is a small biped robot developed by Pollen Robotics, the robotics team within Hugging Face.
NVIDIA Jetson T4000
NVIDIA Jetson T4000 is a commercial system-on-module developed by Nvidia for edge AI and robotics. It is a member of the NVIDIA Jetson Thor family and became available on January 5, 2026.
OMRON Corporation
OMRON Corporation is a Japanese electronics, industrial automation, and healthcare technology company headquartered in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, and is one of the world's larger suppliers of factory automation…
Planetary gear train
A planetary gear train, also called an epicyclic gear train, is a gear reduction mechanism built from small "planet" gears that mesh with, and orbit around
Planetary roller screw
A planetary roller screw is a precision mechanical component that converts rotary motion into linear motion by running a ring of threaded steel rollers between a central screw shaft and a surrounding nut
Quadruped Robot
A quadruped robot is a four-legged robotic system that uses dynamic, articulated legs to walk, trot, run, climb, and traverse uneven terrain.
Quasi-direct drive
Quasi-direct drive (commonly abbreviated QDD) is an actuator architecture that pairs a high-torque-density electric motor, typically a large-diameter brushless DC motor, with a low-ratio mechanical transmission
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH, known as Bosch, is a German engineering and technology company that is the world's largest automotive supplier and one of Europe's largest corporate investors in artificial intelligence.
Robot
A robot is a programmable machine that senses its environment, computes a decision, and acts on the physical world through a closed loop of perception, planning, and actuation.
Robotics
Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and engineering of robots: embodied machines whose mechanisms, sensors, computation, and actuators are organized to perform tasks in the physical world.
Rolling-element bearing
A rolling-element bearing is a machine component that lets one part rotate or pivot against another while carrying load, typically a shaft turning inside a housing, by placing hardened balls or rollers between…
Rotary encoder
A rotary encoder is an electromechanical sensor that measures the angular position, direction, and speed of a rotating shaft and converts that motion into an electrical signal a controller can read.
Servo motor
A servo motor is a motor operated inside a closed feedback loop: a controller sends a target position, speed, or torque, a sensor, typically a rotary encoder, reports what the motor actually did, and the…
SmolVLA
SmolVLA (Small Vision-Language-Action) is a compact, open-source vision-language-action model (VLA) for robotics developed by Hugging Face and released in June 2025.
Stepper motor
A stepper motor (also called a stepping motor) is an electric motor that converts a sequence of electrical pulses into discrete mechanical steps rather than smooth continuous rotation.
Tesla Cybercab
The Tesla Cybercab is a two-seat, battery-electric robotaxi built by Tesla, Inc. for its Robotaxi ride-hailing service.
Wuji Hand
The Wuji Hand is a five-finger dexterous hand developed by Wuji Tech, a Chinese robotics company that grew out of the Shanghai motor maker Pan Motor.
reBot Arm
reBot Arm is an open-hardware desktop robotic-arm series developed by Seeed Studio for robotics education, teleoperation, and embodied-AI experiments.