Awesome Open Source Robots

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

In this context, "hardware" includes electronics and mechanical designs, basically anything physical with public source files shared in order to build and modify it. See also the Open Source Hardware Definition.

Contents

• Gallery
• Robots
  • Arms
  • Bipeds
  • Educational
  • End Effectors
  • Humanoids
  • Hybrid
  • Mobile Manipulators
  • Parallel
  • Quadrupeds
  • Tracked
  • Wheeled
• Adding a Robot to the List

Gallery

Robots

Arms

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Koch v1.1	Jess Moss	GitHub	Apache-2.0	GitHub	MIT
low_cost_robot	Alexander Koch	GitHub	MIT	GitHub	MIT
SO-ARM 102	Robonine	GitHub	CERN-OHL-P-2.0	LeRobot	Apache-2.0
Thor	Ángel L.M.	GitHub	CC-BY-SA-4.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0

Bipeds

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Bolt	Open Dynamic Robot Initiative	Instructions	BSD-3-Clause	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause
CocoNuts	Marc Duclusaud	GitHub	CERN-OHL-S v2	GitHub	Apache-2.0
Duke Humanoid	Duke University	Wiki	MIT	GitHub	MIT
Kayra	Ramin Assadollahi	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause
MABEL	Raspibotics	GitHub	GPL-3.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0
MEVITA	JSK Robotics Laboratory	Google Drive	MIT	GitHub	MIT
Open Duck Mini	Antoine Pirrone	GitHub	Apache-2.0	GitHub	Apache-2.0
RobotX	James Bruton	GitHub	GPL-3.0	GitHub	LGPL-3.0
TipTap	Darren V Levine	GitHub	MIT	GitHub	MIT
Upkie	Stéphane Caron	Wiki	Apache-2.0	GitHub	Apache-2.0

Educational

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Rotary Inverted Pendulum	Henrique Ferrolho	Instructions, Meshes	MIT	Arduino, Julia, Python	MIT
ROSMO	Rosmo	Build guide, Schematic	CERN-OHL-S	GitHub	Apache-2.0

End Effectors

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Amazing Hand	Pollen Robotics	Assembly guide, CAD	Apache-2.0	GitHub	Apache-2.0

Humanoids

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Asimov v1	Menlo Research	GitHub	CERN-OHL-S-2.0	GitHub	GPL-2.0
Berkeley Humanoid Lite	Hybrid Robotics	GitHub	CC-BY-SA-4.0	GitHub	MIT
NimbRo-OP2X	NimbRo team	GitHub	❌ CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0	Software	BSD-3-Clause
Poppy Ergo Jr	Poppy project	Hardware	CC-BY-SA-4.0	Software	GPL-3.0
Poppy Humanoid	Poppy project	Hardware	CC-BY-SA-4.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0
ToddlerBot	Stanford University	MakerWorld	❌ CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0	GitHub	MIT
Microban	Marc Duclusaud	Github	❌ CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0

Hybrid

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Acromonk	DFKI RIC Underactuated Lab	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause
Borinot	HiDRo group	Hardware	BSD-3-Clause	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause

Mobile Manipulators

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
BamBot	Tim Qian	GitHub	Apache-2.0	GitHub	Apache-2.0

Parallel

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
TriFingerEdu	Open Dynamic Robot Initiative	Instructions	BSD-3-Clause	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause

Quadrupeds

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
DIY hobby servos quadruped	Miguel Ayuso Parrilla	Hackaday.io	❌ CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0
MEVIUS	JSK Robotics Laboratory	Google Drive	MIT	GitHub	MIT
mjbots quad	Josh Pieper	Fusion 360	❌	GitHub	Apache-2.0
Solo	Open Dynamic Robot Initiative	Instructions	CC0-1.0	GitHub	CC0-1.0

Tracked

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Sowbot	Agroecology Lab	Hardware	CERN-OHL-S	GitHub	MIT

Wheeled

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Hoverbot	Josh Pieper	GitHub	Apache-2.0	GitHub	Apache-2.0
JPL Open Source Rover	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	GitHub	Apache-2.0	GitHub	Apache-2.0
Just1	Nicolas Rodriguez	GitHub	MIT	GitHub	MIT
OpenScout	Samuel Carter	GitHub	GPL-3.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0
WheelBot	A. René Geist	GitHub	GPL-3.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0

Adding a Robot to the List

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