85 resources · 15 types · checked 2026-10-19
Open tools for building robots.
Emergence Club resources collects open-source robotics frameworks, simulators, models, datasets and hardware, plus sourcing and manufacturing channels.
Build: open source
62 resources · 8 types
Communities
3 resources
ROS Discourse
Open Robotics · Communities
LeRobot Discord
Hugging Face · Communities
Open Duck Mini Discord
Open Duck Mini project · Communities
Software frameworks
15 resources
ROS 2
Open Robotics · Software frameworks
MoveIt 2
MoveIt / PickNik Robotics · Software frameworks
ros2_control
ros-controls · Software frameworks
Nav2 (Navigation2)
Open Navigation · Software frameworks
LeRobot
Hugging Face · Software frameworks
Isaac Lab
NVIDIA · Software frameworks
MuJoCo Playground
Google DeepMind · Software frameworks
RSL-RL
ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab · Software frameworks
Unitree RL Gym
Unitree Robotics · Software frameworks
Unitree SDK 2
Unitree Robotics · Software frameworks
dora-rs
Software frameworks
Pinocchio
Stack of Tasks / INRIA / LAAS-CNRS · Software frameworks
Habitat-Lab
Meta AI (FAIR) · Software frameworks
K-Sim
K-Scale Labs · Software frameworks
cuRobo
NVIDIA (NVlabs) · Software frameworks
Simulation
11 resources
Gazebo (gz-sim)
Open Robotics · Simulation
Isaac Sim
NVIDIA · Simulation
MuJoCo
Google DeepMind · Simulation
Genesis
Genesis Embodied AI · Simulation
Bullet Physics / PyBullet
Bullet Physics · Simulation
Drake
Robot Locomotion Group (MIT CSAIL) / Toyota Research Institute · Simulation
ManiSkill
Hao Su Lab (UC San Diego) · Simulation
Habitat-Sim
Meta AI (FAIR) · Simulation
RoboCasa
RoboCasa Team · Simulation
robosuite
ARISE Initiative (Stanford / UT Austin) · Simulation
Webots
Cyberbotics · Simulation
Models
8 resources
OpenVLA
Stanford / UC Berkeley / TRI et al. · Models
Octo
Octo Model Team (UC Berkeley et al.) · Models
openpi (pi0 / pi0-FAST / pi0.5)
Physical Intelligence · Models
Isaac GR00T N
NVIDIA · Models
SmolVLA
Hugging Face · Models
Diffusion Policy
Columbia / Stanford (REAL lab) · Models
Open source
ACT (Action Chunking with Transformers)
Tony Z. Zhao et al. (Stanford) · Models
RDT-1B
Tsinghua University (TSAIL) · Models
Datasets
5 resources
Open X-Embodiment
Google DeepMind and partner institutions · Datasets
LIBERO
Lifelong-Robot-Learning (UT Austin) · Datasets
AgiBot World
OpenDriveLab / AgiBot · Datasets
BridgeData V2
RAIL (UC Berkeley) · Datasets
LeRobot datasets on the Hugging Face Hub
Hugging Face · Datasets
Open-source hardware
9 resources
SO-100 / SO-101 arm (SO-ARM100)
The Robot Studio / Hugging Face · Open-source hardware
Open source
Koch v1.1 arm
Jess Moss (based on Alexander Koch design) · Open-source hardware
Open source
ALOHA
Tony Z. Zhao et al. (Stanford) · Open-source hardware
Open source
Mobile ALOHA
Stanford · Open-source hardware
Berkeley Humanoid Lite
Hybrid Robotics (UC Berkeley) · Open-source hardware
Open source
Open Duck Mini
Antoine Pirrone (community project) · Open-source hardware
Reachy Mini
Pollen Robotics / Hugging Face · Open-source hardware
LeKiwi
SIGRobotics UIUC · Open-source hardware
Open source
ToddlerBot
Haochen Shi et al. (Stanford) · Open-source hardware
Tooling
7 resources
Rerun
Tooling
Foxglove SDK
Foxglove · Tooling
MCAP
Foxglove · Tooling
Viser
Viser project · Tooling
robot_descriptions.py
robot-descriptions · Tooling
MuJoCo Menagerie
Google DeepMind · Tooling
PlotJuggler
Tooling
Tutorials & learning
4 resources
Hugging Face Robotics Course
Hugging Face · Tutorials & learning
Open source
Underactuated Robotics (MIT 6.832)
MIT / Russ Tedrake · Tutorials & learning
Open source
Robotic Manipulation (MIT)
MIT / Russ Tedrake · Tutorials & learning
Modern Robotics
Northwestern University (Lynch & Park) · Tutorials & learning
Sourcing & manufacturing
23 resources · 7 types
PCB & PCBA
2 resources
Electronics distributors
8 resources
LCSC Electronics
Electronics distributors
DigiKey
Electronics distributors
Mouser Electronics
Electronics distributors
Arrow Electronics
Electronics distributors
Farnell
Electronics distributors
RS
Electronics distributors
SparkFun Electronics
Electronics distributors
Adafruit
Electronics distributors
CNC machining
3 resources
3D printing
1 resources
Craftcloud
3D printing
Robot parts shops
7 resources
Servos & motors (retail)
1 resources
ODrive Robotics
Servos & motors (retail)
Sourcing networks
1 resources
SourceDirect
Sourcing networks
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