Research & Open-Hardware Platforms Directory (2026)

Open-source vacuum robot cleaner

A build-it-yourself, 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars!

Golang framework for robotics, drones, and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Webots Robot Simulator

An open and affordable mini quadruped robot based on ESP32.

Open Source Robotic Arm for All Developers

Tooling for professional robotic development in C++ and Python with a touch of ROS, autonomous driving and aerospace.

Massively parallel rigidbody physics simulation on accelerator hardware.

A fully open-source humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments.

Modular AI HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) for Robots

Learn the basics of robotics through hands-on experience using ROS 2 and Gazebo simulation.

EVA OS — A real-time multimodal AIOS for next-generation hardware, enabling your devices being “alive” and as intelligent as a real brain.

ROSA 🤖 is an AI Agent designed to interact with ROS1- and ROS2-based robotics systems using natural language queries. ROSA helps robot developers inspect, diagnose, understand, and operate robots.

Open source robotics simulator. The latest version of Gazebo.

Connect AI models like Claude & GPT with robots using MCP and ROS.

taskt (pronounced 'tasked' and formely sharpRPA) is free and open-source robotic process automation (rpa) built in C# powered by the .NET Framework

Core open-source Vibecoding interactive mouse project, belonging to a self-developed open-source system including the nation's first open-source robot actuator and stepless mobile intelligent monitoring solution.

The hardware design for AgiBot X1.

A list of projects that were or will be featured in Weekly Robotics newsletter

Autonomous mobile robots (2WD, 4WD, Mecanum Drive)

Generic robotic controllers to accompany ros2_control

Universal Robots ROS2 driver supporting CB3 and e-Series

Dalaran — Apache-2.0, robotics-first visualization and data infrastructure for multimodal time-series. ROS 2 native, reads existing .rrd recordings. A hard fork of Rerun.

BrachioGraph is an ultra-cheap (total cost of materials: €14) plotter that can be built with minimal skills.

YARP - Yet Another Robot Platform

A curated list of free and open source software and hardware to build and control a robot vacuum.

Generator of runtime monitors for flight and robotics applications.

RAI is a vendor agnostic agentic framework for Physical AI robotics, utilizing ROS 2 tools to perform complex actions, defined scenarios, free interface execution, log summaries, voice interaction and more.

Webots ROS 2 packages

A high-fidelity, open-source robotics simulator integrating Unreal Engine's photorealistic rendering with MuJoCo's precision physics.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Grasping from Octrees

A model predictive controller for quadruped robots based on the single rigid body model and written in python. Gradient-based (acados) or Sampling-based (jax)

Generic calibration for robots

URDF-Studio is a web-based visual URDF robot modeler with 3D workspace, structured skeleton/detail/hardware workflows, motor library integration, MuJoCo export, and AI assistance.

[RA-L 2024] GRIL-Calib: Targetless Ground Robot IMU-LiDAR Extrinsic Calibration Method using Ground Plane Motion Constraints

Fastest Robotics Runtime System. If phones have Android, robots deserve HORUS.

Vehicle and mobile robotics simulator. C++ & Python API. Use it as a standalone application or via ROS 1 or ROS 2

Guide on how to set-up Linux and Docker for real-time applications using the Ubuntu realtime-kernel/PREEMPT_RT patch with a focus on robotics with ROS and ROS 2

Query robotics, drone, and IoT data in plain English through an MCP server, with an intelligent edge data reduction pipeline that keeps only the data that matters.

A mobile robot simulation with differential drive, depth camera, IMU and 2D LiDAR that supports ROS, ROS2, Gazebo, Ignition, and ISAAC Sim

Aerostack2 is a ROS 2 framework developed to create autonomous multi-aerial-robots systems in an easy and powerful way.

MIGHTY: Hermite spline-based real-time trajectory planner for single- and multi-agent UAVs and ground robots (ROS 2). Accepted to IEEE RA-L.

DiffBot is an autonomous 2wd differential drive robot using ROS Noetic on a Raspberry Pi 4 B. With its SLAMTEC Lidar and the ROS Control hardware interface it's capable of navigating in an environment using the ROS Navigation stack and making use of SLAM algorithms to create maps of unknown environments.

ROS 2 integration for Franka research robots

An Event-Driven, Asynchronous, Behavioral State Machine Library for ROS2 (Robotic Operating System) applications written in C++

Collection of best practices for working with Docker/Docker-Compose and the Robot Operating System (ROS/ROS 2) in simulation as well as with hardware and real-time requirements

Doosan robotic arm, simulation, control, visualization in Gazebo and ROS2 for Reinforcement Learning.

ROS2 URDF description for Universal Robots

Modular open-source brain for legged robots. Web UI for teleops, autonomous navigation, mapping & monitoring. 3D-printable hardware that runs on ROS2.

Open-source diff drive robot ROS 2 compatible

Hardware Interface for EtherCAT module integration with ros2_control

A navigation system for outdoor robotics in rough uneven terrains.

A LiDAR odometry pipeline for wheeled mobile robots

Hardware hacker’s flying probe automation stack for agent-driven target discovery, microscope mapping, safety-monitored CNC motion, probe review, and controlled pin probing.

ROS2.0 Foxy and Humble repositories which provide ready-to-use ROS2.0 Gazebo + MoveIt!2 simulation packages for different Industrial and Collaborative Robots.

Compact brushless motor controller with FOC, integrated absolute angle sensor and CAN Bus.

Log and visualize multimodal data for robotics and physical AI

Automated, hardware-independent Hand-Eye Calibration for ROS2

Write your robot software in minutes.

ROS2 Package to work with the robot G1 from unitree

Develop an open source robotic lawn mower (HW+SW reference platform)

Turns your phone or VR headset into a robot arm teleoperation device by leveraging WebXR

Developing robot description model for Unitree Go2 robot configured with Champ Legged Robots Research Repository

Belay is a python library that enables the rapid development of projects that interact with hardware via a micropython-compatible board.

sensor calibration tools for autonomous driving and robotics

🦕 nanosaur is a little robot, powered by ROS 2. Made for NVIDIA Jetson

ROS2 developer packages for robotic products from UFACTORY

This repository provides ready-to-use ROS2 (Humble) packages to execute simple programs and sequences and control different Industrial and Collaborative Robots using ROS 2.

A modular, open-source robotic platform designed for the study and development of two-wheeled single-tracked autonomous vehicles.

A mission planner and visualizer for controlling outdoor ROS robots.

100+ robotics algorithms in Rust: planning, localization, SLAM, control, and benchmarks.

The LLVM for Robot Descriptions. A programmable IR engine to compose, validate, and compile URDF/XACRO/SRDF models from Python or Blender.

ros2_medkit - diagnostics gateway for ROS 2 robots. Faults, live data, operations, scripts, locking, triggers, and OTA updates via REST API. No SSH, no custom tooling.

ROS 2 implementation of robotics algorithms based on the Probabilistic Robotics book

Deep Reinforcement Learning for mobile robot navigation in ROS2 Gazebo simulator. Using DRL (SAC, TD3) neural networks, a robot learns to navigate to a random goal point in a simulated environment while avoiding obstacles.

🤖🐑 It's a sheep, it's a dolly, it's a following robot. Dolly was born to be cloned.

Robot Vulnerability Database. An archive of robot vulnerabilities and bugs.

76 audit-ready Claude skills automating the industrial robot, cobot, AMR, ROS2, V&V, AI/ML, and IEC 62443 lifecycle. 38 builder + reviewer pairs anchored to ISO 10218, 13849, 62061, 12100, 9283, 15066, 3691-4, and IEC 62443.

An Adaptive and Extensible Platform for Cloud and Fog Robotics Using ROS 2

A differential drive robot is controlled using ROS2 Jazzy running on a Raspberry Pi 4 (running Ubuntu Server 24.04). The vehicle is equipped with a Raspberry Pi camera for visual feedback and an RPLIDAR A1 sensor used for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance.

🤖 Poppy Ergo Jr is an open-source robotic arm based on modular 3D printed conception and low-cost XL-320 motors.

A zenoh plug-in that allows to transparently route DDS data. This plugin can be used by DDS applications to leverage zenoh for geographical routing or for better scaling discovery. For ROS2 robotic applications, use https://github.com/eclipse-zenoh/zenoh-plugin-ros2dds

About 3D Printed robot arm powered by ROS 2 and Arduino and controlled via MoveIt! 2 and Amazon Alexa. It is developed and programmed in the online course named "Robotics and ROS 2 - Learn by Doing! Manipulators"

Lightweight interface for controlling ROS-based robotic arms using LeRobot

An open source and affordable robot arm. Perfect for STEM, Coding & Robotics education, IoT robotics, research, and DIY robotics kit development. The world's most copied robotics project.

Source code of the book Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming

Implementation of the D* lite algorithm in Python for "Improved Fast Replanning for Robot Navigation in Unknown Terrain"

ROS 2 implementation of a Teleoperated robot with live video feed using webrtc and SLAM using realsense's stereocameras. Running on a Jetson Nano

开源六轴协作机械臂系统，包含机械结构、电路和软件

Self-evolving runtime infrastructure for Physical AI and embodied agents. Ground AI agents into robot bodies with e-URDF, sandbox safety, capability routing, praxis capture, physical memory, runtime intervention, and skill evolution.

TortoiseBot is an extremely learner-friendly and cost-efficient ROS-based Open-sourced Mobile Robot that is capable of doing Teleoperation, Manual as well as Autonomous Mapping, Navigation, Simulation, etc.

Benchmarking suite to evaluate 🤖 robotics computing performance. Vendor-neutral. ⚪Grey-box and ⚫Black-box approaches.

Autonomous Mobile Robot developed and programmed in the online course named "Self-Driving and ROS 2 - Learn By Doing! Map & Localization"

Real-time 2.5D elevation mapping engine for embedded mobile robots: C++17 core with optional ROS1/ROS2 support

Open source simulator for maritime robotics researchers

An open-source 3D-printable robotic arm

A Flexible Framework for Robot visualization and programming in Python

ROS 2 (rcl, rclc & micro-ROS) node for MotoPlus-compatible Yaskawa Motoman robot controllers

A robot-specific processing unit. Contains CPUs, FPGAs and GPUs and maps ROS efficiently to them for best performance.

HandsFree Open Source Robot Project

A 3D Printed Quadrupedal Robot for Locomotion Research. :turtle:

RosTeamWorkspace is a framework for boosting collaboration in teams when developing software for robots using Robot Operating System (ROS1 and ROS2).

Implementation of an autonomous mobile robot with semantic segmentation, object detection, motion planning and control systems

A robotic fruit picking demo project for O3DE with ROS 2 Gem

HyperDog is a quadruped robot which is fully based on ROS 2 and Micro-ROS

The zm_robot is a AGV using four mecanum wheel driving.

Nindamani, the AI based mechanically weed removal robot

Collection of tutorials and examples for the Robot Operating System ROS 2

An Open-source Robot Fleet Management Dashboard

Tutorial, books, videos, resources to help us learn and DIY Open Sources Robot