When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s ...

Scaling embodied AI has long been bottlenecked by data. Teleoperating real robots is expensive and slow, yielding only a limited number of demonstrations per day. While robot-free data collection ...

An open-source quadruped robot named Q8botOne aims to provide an affordable, fully assembled robotic ...

Open source robotics AI platform LeRobot surpassed 58,000 community datasets in 2026 — 50x growth in under a year — making it the largest dataset category on Hugging Face and signaling a ...

The Reachy Mini is an open source robot developed collaboratively by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities in robotics and programming. Powered by a ...

NVIDIA releases a major open source collection of physical AI agent skills and tools spanning NVIDIA Omniverse, Cosmos, Alpamayo ...

China has unveiled what developers describe as the country's first robot operating system built on OpenHarmony, underscoring Beijing's broader push to establish a domestic software and hardware ...

NVIDIA has released open source physical AI tools and agent skills for robotics and industrial AI development.

European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp and manipulate things with new dexterity. The new ...

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

At ICRA 2026, GENISOM AI may have been new to many international attendees — but it is not a concept-stage robotics startup.