Awesome Robotics Project
A list of open-source, affordable, less-known, or visionary robotics projects ... aaand robotics tooling companies I find interesting.
- 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
- BetaBot - 3d printable Robot arm
- Bobble-Bot - Demonstration robot for learning principles of real-time control
- CHAMP - š” CHAMP Quadruped Controller ROS Package
- CyPhyHouse : a toolchain for distributed robotics - CyPhyHouse : a toolchain for distributed robotics
- 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
- GoodBoy - 3D Printed Arduino Robot Dog
- JPL Open Source Rover Project - Open-source 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars
- 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
- MuSHR - Affordable, open-source robotic race car
- NanoSaur - NVIDIA Jetson dinosaur robot, fully 3D printable, ROS2 competible
- 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 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.
- OpenĪionics - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- borglab/gtsam - Georgia Tech Smoothing and Mapping Library
- facebookresearch/theseus - A library for differentiable nonlinear optimization
- openMVG/openMVG - open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion.
Command Line Tools
- linux_isolate_process
- ros command - Unifying the ROS command line tools
- ROSBoard - ROS node that runs a web server on your robot.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- MetaDrive - Open-source Driving Simulator for AI and Autonomy Research
- MORSE - The open-source simulator for academic robotics
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim - Simulate, test and iterate virtual robots in a high fidelity 3D environment
- 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
- 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
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
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
- balena - The infrastructure you need to develop, deploy, and manage fleets of connected devices at scale
- COGNICEPT - Keep your robots going
- FogROS - a framework that allows existing ROS automation applications to gain access to additional computing resources from commercial cloud-based services
- Formant - Speak Robot; Intelligent platform for robotic fleets
- Freedom robotics - POWERFUL CONTROL AND MONITORING FOR ROBOTS
- InOrbit - MISSION CONTROL for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
- PHANTOM AI - Democratizing advanced driver assistance systems
- Rapyuta Robotics - We make robots attainable and useful
- 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
- TANGRAM - The Modern Perception Platform
- Transitive Robotics - Open-core, Full-stack Robotic Software Capabilities
- 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.
- rethink robotics - Rethink Robotics Meets German Engineering
- SOUTHIE AUTONOMY - Easy, Flexible Automation for Contract Packaging
- micropsi industries - Automate Manual Workstations Yourself
- cogniteam - Standout software solutions for autonomous robots
Deployment & DevEnv
but not robotics-specific
- 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.
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 Libraries
- Awesome Robotics (ahundt)
- Awesome Robotics (Kiloreux)
- Awesome Weekly Robotics
- awesome-cloud-robotics
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- My curated list of robotics companies (Google Sheet)
