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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.

AI HardwareOpen Source AI

Gazebo Simulator

Gazebo is an open-source 3D dynamic robotics simulator that has served as the de facto standard simulation environment for the robot software research community for over two decades.

Open Source AI

Genesis (simulator)

Genesis is an open-source, generative physics simulation platform for robotics and embodied AI, released on December 19, 2024 after a roughly two-year (24-month) collaboration involving more than 20 academic…

AI InfrastructureOpen Source AI

LeRobot

LeRobot is an open-source, PyTorch-native library for end-to-end real-world robot learning developed by Hugging Face and a global community of contributors, often described as the "Transformers for robotics"…

Developer ToolsEmbodied AI

Mobile ALOHA

Mobile ALOHA is an open-source, low-cost system for collecting bimanual mobile manipulation data and learning household tasks from it, developed at Stanford University by Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao

Embodied AIOpen Source AI

MuJoCo

MuJoCo (short for Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact) is an open-source physics simulator designed for fast and accurate simulation of articulated mechanical systems with rich contact interactions.

Open Source AIReinforcement Learning

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1 is an open foundation model for humanoid robots developed by NVIDIA and unveiled by Jensen Huang on March 18, 2025 at the company's annual GTC conference in San Jose, California.

AI ModelsHumanoid Robots

NVIDIA Newton

Newton is an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics engine built for robotics simulation and robot learning, co-developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research and stewarded by the Linux Foundation.

Embodied AINVIDIA

NVIDIA Warp

NVIDIA Warp is an open-source Python framework, first released by NVIDIA in March 2022, that takes ordinary Python functions and just-in-time compiles them into native kernels that run on the CPU or on a…

Developer ToolsNVIDIA

ORCA Hand

ORCA (a backronym for Open-source, Reliable, Cost-effective, Anthropomorphic) is an open-source dexterous hand developed at the Soft Robotics Lab (SRL) of ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Open Source AIRobot Hardware

OpenDerm

OpenDerm is an open-source robotic imaging system that photographs human skin at close range with a four-degree-of-freedom gantry, then reconstructs and registers those photographs into a measurable…

Healthcare AIOpen Source AI

OpenPI

OpenPI (stylized openpi) is the open-source repository of robot foundation models, training code, and inference utilities published by Physical Intelligence, the San Francisco robotics and AI startup…

AI ModelsDeveloper Tools

OpenVLA

OpenVLA is a 7-billion-parameter open-source vision-language-action model (VLA) for robotic manipulation, released in June 2024 by a collaboration of researchers from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the…

AI ModelsOpen Source AI

SO-101

The SO-101 (Standard Open Arm 101) is a low-cost, open-source, 3D-printable robot arm designed by The Robot Studio in collaboration with Hugging Face and published in the TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 repository…

Embodied AIOpen Source AI

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.

AI HardwareAI Models

TetherIA

The Aero Hand Open is a low-cost, open-source, anthropomorphic robotic hand developed by TetherIA, a Silicon Valley robotics startup, for affordable dexterous manipulation research.

Open Source AIRobot Hardware

The Robot Studio

The Robot Studio is an independent open-source robotics design studio run by British roboticist Rob Knight, best known for publishing free, buildable designs for anatomically inspired humanoid robots and their…

Open Source AIRobot Hardware

TurtleBot

TurtleBot is an open source, low cost mobile robot platform built around the Robot Operating System (ROS) and intended primarily for robotics education and research.

Open Source AI

V-JEPA 2

V-JEPA 2 (Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture 2) is an open-source video world model released by Meta AI on June 11, 2025 that learns to understand, predict, and plan in the physical world by…

AI ModelsComputer Vision