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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Actuator
An actuator is a device or mechanism that converts supplied energy and a command into mechanical force, torque, or motion.
Allegro Hand
The Allegro Hand is a low-cost anthropomorphic research hand, four-fingered in its classic form (a five-finger V6 F followed in 2026), built by Wonik Robotics of South Korea, and one of the most widely used…
Alt-Bionics
Alt-Bionics, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas company that designs low-cost robotic hands for two related markets: myoelectric prosthetic hands for people with upper-limb amputations, and dexterous robotic end…
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
Berkeley Humanoid Lite
Berkeley Humanoid Lite is an open-source humanoid robot research platform developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bionic hand
A bionic hand is a powered artificial hand, usually controlled by the electrical signals of the wearer's own muscles, that restores grasping function to a person who has lost a hand or was born without one.
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…
CORLEO
CORLEO is Kawasaki Heavy Industries' four-legged, rideable off-road mobility concept.
COVVI
COVVI Ltd is a British medical technology company based in Leeds, England, that designs and manufactures myoelectric upper-limb prostheses.
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
Dexterous hand
A dexterous hand (also called a dexterous robotic hand or multi-fingered robot hand) is an anthropomorphic end effector that reproduces the grasping, in-hand manipulation, and tactile perception of the human…
Dot (DoorDash)
Dot is an autonomous delivery robot designed and built in-house by DoorDash Labs, the robotics and automation arm of DoorDash.
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…
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
Inspire Robots
Beijing Inspire-Robots Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 北京因时机器人科技有限公司; trading as Inspire Robots or 因时机器人) is a Chinese robotics-component maker, founded in Beijing in 2016, that produces micro linear servo…
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…
Jumper (Robot)
Jumper is a crab-inspired robot from KingKong Robotics with 22 degrees of freedom.
Kyber Labs
Kyber Labs is a United States robotics startup, based in Brooklyn, New York, that builds a low-cost, high-speed
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.
Matic
Matic is a camera-based robot vacuum and mop made by Matic Robots, Inc., a robotics company in Mountain View, California.
Microduck
Microduck is a small biped robot developed by Pollen Robotics, the robotics team within Hugging Face.
Mimic Robotics
Mimic Robotics is a Swiss robotics company that develops dexterous robot hands, human demonstration equipment, control software, and learned manipulation policies for industrial work.
NexArm
NexArm is a desktop robotic arm sold by Hiwonder, a Shenzhen-based maker of educational robotics kits, for imitation-learning, teleoperation and embodied-AI coursework.
OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1)
OM-1, short for Omnibody Model 1, is a general-purpose robot manipulation policy announced by Reward AI on 14 September 2026.
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 Bionics
Open Bionics is a British medical robotics company, based in Bristol, England, that designs and manufactures low-cost, 3D-printed myoelectric prosthetic arms for people with below-elbow limb difference.
OpenArm
OpenArm is an open-source, seven-degree-of-freedom humanoid robot arm developed by Enactic, Inc., a Tokyo robotics company.
PSYONIC
PSYONIC is an American bionics company that designs and manufactures the Ability Hand, a multi-articulating myoelectric prosthetic hand that is also sold as a dexterous end effector for robots.
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
Rochu Robotics
Rochu Robotics (Chinese: 苏州柔触机器人科技有限公司, branded ROCHU) is a Chinese robotics company that develops soft end effectors for industrial automation.
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.
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…
Sarcomere Dynamics
Sarcomere Dynamics Inc. is a Canadian robotics company based in St. Albert, Alberta that designs compact, high-dexterity robotic hands sold under the ARTUS brand.
Series Elastic Actuator
A series elastic actuator (SEA) is an actuator with an intentionally compliant element in the mechanical force path between its power source and its load.
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…
Shadow Robot Company
The Shadow Robot Company is a British robotics firm based in London that designs and builds anthropomorphic dexterous hands and teleoperation systems for research.
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.
Tactile sensing
Tactile sensing is the technology that gives robots a sense of touch: the ability to measure the physical contact between a robot and the world, including contact force, pressure distribution, shear, slip…
Tendon-driven actuation
Tendon-driven actuation (also called cable-driven actuation) is a method of moving a robot's joints by pulling on thin, flexible cables (the "tendons") that run from motors mounted somewhere else on the…
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.
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…
Unitree AS2-W
Unitree AS2-W is a compact wheeled-legged quadruped announced by Unitree Robotics on July 24, 2026.
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.
Xynova Flex 1
The Xynova Flex 1 is a high-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven dexterous hand built by Xynova (Chinese: 曦诺未来), a Hangzhou robotics startup founded in December 2024.
ZWHAND
ZWHAND is the dexterous-hand brand and robotics subsidiary of Shenzhen Zhaowei Machinery and Electronics Co., Ltd. (兆威机电), a listed Chinese precision micro-transmission and micro-motor manufacturer.