stephane-caron/awesome-open-source-robots

A curated list of awesome robots that are fully open source

Awesome Open Source Robots

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

Contents

• Gallery
• Robots
  • Arms
  • Bipeds
  • Educational
  • Humanoids
  • Hybrid
  • Parallel
  • Quadrupeds
  • 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
Thor	Ángel L.M.	GitHub	CC-BY-SA-4.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0

Bipeds

Project	Maker	Foot type	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
Bolt	Open Dynamic Robot Initiative	Spherical	Instructions	BSD-3-Clause	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause
Duke Humanoid	Duke University	Linear	Wiki	MIT	GitHub	MIT
Kayra	Ramin Assadollahi	Flat	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause	GitHub	BSD-3-Clause
MABEL	Raspibotics	Wheeled	GitHub	GPL-3.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0
Open Duck Mini	Antoine Pirrone	Spherical	GitHub	Apache-2.0	GitHub	Apache-2.0
TipTap	Darren V Levine	Spherical	GitHub	MIT	GitHub	MIT
Upkie	Stéphane Caron	Wheeled	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

Humanoids

Project	Maker	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
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

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

Parallel

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

Quadrupeds

Project	Hardware	HW License	Software	SW License
DIY hobby servos quadruped	Hackaday.io	❌ CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0	GitHub	GPL-3.0
MEVIUS	Google Drive	MIT	GitHub	MIT
mjbots quad	Fusion 360	❌	GitHub	Apache-2.0
Solo	Instructions	CC0-1.0	GitHub	CC0-1.0

Wheeled

Project	Maker	License	Build	Software
Hoverbot	Josh Pieper	Apache-2.0	GitHub	GitHub
JPL Open Source Rover	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Apache-2.0	Build	GitHub
OpenScout	Samuel Carter	GPL-3.0	Manual	GitHub
WheelBot	A. René Geist	GPL-3.0	GitHub	GitHub

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.