A list of open-source, affordable, less-known, or visionary robotics projects (and startup companies I'm interested in)

• TurtleBot - Low-cost, personal robot kit with open-source software
• Linorobot - Suite of low-cost open-source mobile robots
• ROSbot 2.0 - Open source mobile robot platform
• Magni - Affordable robotic mobile base with 100kg payload
• Bobble-Bot - Demonstration robot for learning principles of real-time control
• ANYMal C - Autonomous four-legged robot
• Stanford Doggo - Open-source quadruped robot
• JPL Open Source Rover Project - Open-source 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars
• MuSHR - Affordable, open-source robotic race car
• AWS DeepRacer - Autonomous 1/18th scale race car designed to test RL models
• Openmanipulator - Open-software/hardware/embedded-board robotic arm
• Thor - DIY 3D printable robotic arm
• Niryo One - 3D printed 6 axis robotic arm
• Poppy Project - Open-source platform for interactive 3D printed robots
• OpenΒionics - Open-source initiative for the development of robotic and bionic devices
• ROBEL - Collection of affordable, reliable hardware robot designs
• Nybble - Open-source robotic cat
• PyRobot - Python package for running experiments in robot learning
• NVIDIA ISSAC PLATFORM - Robotic AI Development Platform with Simulation, Navigation and Manipulation
• CHAMP - 𓃡 CHAMP Quadruped Controller ROS Package
• GoodBoy - 3D Printed Arduino Robot Dog
• LHF connect - A small semi-autonomous device that connects patients in isolation with the people they love
• OpenBot - Turning Smartphones into Robots
• ExoMy - The 3D printed rover developed by the European Space Agency
• TriFinger - An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity
• MABEL A Boston Dynamics inspired balancing robot
• Open Dynamic Robot Initiative - An Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research
• Robotics Middleware Framework - Task queuing, conflict-free resource scheduling, utilities to help create robot fleet adapters, and so on
• PythonRobotics - Python sample codes for robotics algorithms
• CyPhyHouse : a toolchain for distributed robotics - CyPhyHouse : a toolchain for distributed robotics
• NanoSaur - NVIDIA Jetson dinosaur robot, fully 3D printable, ROS2 competible
• DUMMY - The Robot Arm Is Not So Dumb
• OpenPodcar - Open source hardware design and software for OpenPodcar.
• UMIRobot - A simple 3D printable robot arm with open-source hardware and software.

• web-based visualization libraries
  • Foxglove Studio - Visualization and Debugging for Robotics
• Realtime robot data visualization in the browser
• ROSBoard - ROS node that runs a web server on your robot.
• AR.js - Augmented Reality on the Web
• A-FRAME - A web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences
• ROS Reality - Connect a ROS-enabled robot to Unity
• ros command - Unifying the ROS command line tools
• rerun.io - Open source visualization infrastructure for computer vision and robotics

• Anki Cozmo - Python SDK, C# SDK, and PyCozmo
• temi SDK
• Spot SDK

• 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."
• adafruit - "Adafruit designs, manufactures and sells a number of electronics products, electronics components, tools and accessories."
• instructables - "Instructables is a community for people who like to make things."

• Formant - Speak Robot; Intelligent platform for robotic fleets
• RosHub - Manage one robot or entire fleets
• Freedom robotics - POWERFUL CONTROL AND MONITORING FOR ROBOTS
• Rapyuta Robotics - We make robots attainable and useful
• balena - The infrastructure you need to develop, deploy, and manage fleets of connected devices at scale
• AWS RoboMaker - Simulate and deploy robotic applications at cloud scale
• SEMIO - bringing robots to life
• InOrbit - MISSION CONTROL for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
• ROS Development Studio - Develop your ROS project from a single place online
• Windows 10 IoT + ROS - Bringing the intelligent edge to robots with ROS on Windows 10 and Azure
• scale - The Data Platform for AI
• PHANTOM AI - Democratizing advanced driver assistance systems
• Autoware.AI - the world's first "All-in-One" open-source software for autonomous driving technology
• FogROS - a framework that allows existing ROS automation applications to gain access to additional computing resources from commercial cloud-based services
• COGNICEPT - Keep your robots going
• TANGRAM - The Modern Perception Platform
• SLAMCore - Spatial Intelligence for robots and machines
• Artificial - Redefining Lab Automation Software
• Transitive Robotics - Open-core, Full-stack Robotic Software Capabilities
• Airbotics - Open-source software deployment platform for robotics
• YOU ONLY NEED ONE HUB - Cloud-based system for designing, sharing, and evaluating Autonomous Vehicles, ADAS, and Robotics.
• ROSbloX - Your ultimate building blocks for rapidly creating a robot's software stack.
• Applied Intuition - ADAS and AV simulation and development tools

• 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

• Gazebo - Gazebo is an open-source 3D robotics simulator
• CARLA - Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research
• MORSE - The open-source simulator for academic robotics
• Isaac - Simulate, test and iterate virtual robots in a high fidelity 3D environment
• Gibson - Gibson is a perceptual and physics Simulator
• Webots - Open source robot simulator
• AI Habitat - AI Habitat enables training of embodied AI agents in a highly photorealistic & efficient 3D simulator
• Flightmare - A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator
• Project dave - A simulation environment to support the rapid testing and evaluation of underwater robotic solutions
• ZeroSimROSUnity - Robotic simulation in Unity with ROS integration
• Unity Robotics Hub - Central repository for tools, tutorials, resources, and documentation for robotics simulation in Unity
• 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.

• Awesome Weekly Robotics
• Awesome Robotics (Kiloreux)
• Awesome Robotics (ahundt)
• Awesome Human Robot Interaction
• Awesome Robotics Libraries
• Awesome Robotic Tooling
• Awesome Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2)
• Awesome HRI Datasets and Human Simulators
• awesome-cloud-robotics

• IEEE SPECTRUM - Robotics
• The Robot Report
• Weekly Robotics
• Evan Ackerman's Twitter feed

• Robotics Summit & Expo - The International Design and Development Event for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• MODEX - The Premier Supply Chain Event
• BARS - Bay Area Robotics Symposium
• TEROS - Texas Regional Robotics Symposium

• My public ROSJects - A collection of ready-to-start ROS projects on browser
• My curated list of robotics companies (Google Sheet)
• Awesome HRI Papers for Industry
• Awesome Robotics System Design
• (Wannabe) Awesome (Remote) Robot DevEnvs