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A curated list of awesome robots that can be fully built and operated at home

Awesome Open Source Robots Awesome

A curated list of awesome robots with open source software, open hardware, and in the best cases both.

Contents

  • Robots
    • Arms
    • Bipeds
    • Humanoids
    • Hybrid
    • Parallel
    • Quadrupeds
    • Wheeled
  • Gallery
  • Add a Robot to the List
  • Not Fully Open Source Robots

Robots

Arms

Name Hardware HW License Software SW License
Thor GitHub CC-BY-SA-4.0 GitHub GPL-3.0

Bipeds

Name Type Hardware HW License Software SW License
Bolt Point-foot Instructions BSD-3-Clause GitHub BSD-3-Clause
Kayra Flat-foot Overview BSD-3-Clause GitHub BSD-3-Clause
TipTap Point-foot GitHub MIT GitHub MIT
Upkie Wheeled Wiki Apache-2.0 GitHub Apache-2.0

Humanoids

Name Hardware HW License Software SW License
Poppy Ergo Jr Hardware CC-BY-SA-4.0 Software GPL-3.0
Poppy Humanoid Hardware CC-BY-SA-4.0 GitHub GPL-3.0

Hybrid

Name Type Hardware HW License Software SW License
Borinot Drone + Arm Hardware BSD-3-Clause GitHub BSD-3-Clause

Parallel

Name Type Hardware HW License Software SW License
TriFingerEdu Manipulator Instructions BSD-3-Clause GitHub BSD-3-Clause

Quadrupeds

Name Type Hardware HW License Software SW License
DIY hobby servos quadruped Point-foot Hackaday.io ❌ CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 GitHub GPL-3.0
mjbots quad Point-foot Fusion 360 GitHub Apache-2.0
Petoi Robot Cat Nybble Point-foot OpenCat MIT
Solo Point-foot Instructions CC0-1.0 GitHub CC0-1.0

Wheeled

Name License Build Software
JPL Open Source Rover Apache-2.0 Build GitHub
OpenScout GPL-3.0 Manual GitHub
WheelBot GPL-3.0 GitHub GitHub

Gallery

Upkie OpenScout Solo TriFingerEdu
Bolt WheelBot Poppy Humanoid JPL Open Source Rover
Borinot Thor

Add a Robot to the List

New robots are welcome to the list, as long as they are open source in both hardware and software.

Not Fully Open Source Robots

The following robots aim to be open source, but they don't pass some items in the Open Source Definition.

  • NimbRo-OP2X - Under the CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0, which is not open source because of the NC part.