A collection of robotics platforms across industry and academia for educational purposes. Image credit lays with the respective companies and authors.
| Company | Comments |
|---|---|
| Dyna Robotics |  Mobile Base with two standard arms (at least $20k imo). Link to above here |
| Piper arm for $2.5k by AgileX Robotics |  |
| OpenArm. $6.5k cost |  |
| Allegro Hand. Cost supposedly over $16k according to LEAP Hand paper |  |
| Ufactory Arm |  |
| Standard Bots |  |
| Reachy2 | $70k humanoid with mobile base by Pollen Robotics. Purchased by Huggingface earlier this year.  |
| RM65-B |  |
| I2RT |  |
| Elephant Robotics: Arms for as cheap as $800. Mobile platforms + arms for as cheap as $1600. |  |
| Feather Robotics: ca. ~$30k |  |
| The Amazing Hand | Huggingface hand for less than $250.  |
| ARX R5 and X5 |  Price ~8-10k. |
| ARX X7s |  Humanoid with mobile base. ~ $43k |
| Huggingface HopeJR Arm |  |
| K-Scale Labs - price starts at ~$9k |  |
| WidowX: Trossen arms ca. $4-5k depending on version |  |
| Hello Robot |  |
| TRACER by AgileX |  |
| TIAGo Base |  |
| Fetch Mobile Base |  |
| Willow Garage PR2 |  |
| Paper | Comments |
|---|---|
| Touch in the Wild Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper | Seems like extension of [[Universal Manipulation Interface In-The-Wild Robot Teaching Without In-The-Wild Robots]].  |
| DexWrist A Robotic Wrist for Constrained and Dynamic Manipulation | MIT paper that developed a compliant robotic wrist for advanced manipulation  |
| Demonstrating Berkeley Humanoid Lite An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot | Berkeley Humanoid  |
| RUKA Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning | Has good overview of existing hands and introduces open-source RUKA hand (ca. $1.3k)  |
| A low-cost and lightweight 6 DoF bimanual armfor dynamic and contact-rich manipulation | $6k bimanual manipulator that is stationary  |
| Categorizing robots by performance fitness into the tree of robots - Nature Machine Intelligence | Categorizes robot arms  |
| DOGlove Dexterous Manipulation with a Low-Cost Open-Source Haptic Force Feedback Glove | Tactile glove that assists haptic force feedback during teleoperation  |
| ToddlerBot Open-Source ML-Compatible Humanoid Platform for Loco-Manipulation | Stanford Humanoid  |
| TidyBot++ An Open-Source Holonomic Mobile Manipulator for Robot Learning |  |
| 𝜋₀ - A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control | Uses [[FAST Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models]].  🔎 |
| DROID - A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset | Large dataset collected by 50+ authors, Berkeley, Stanford, UT Austin.  |
| Universal Manipulation Interface In-The-Wild Robot Teaching Without In-The-Wild Robots |  |
| Mobile ALOHA - Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation |  |
| LEAP Hand Dexterous, Low-cost Hybrid Rigid-Soft Hand for Robot Learning | Leap hand 2.0 was introduced at RSS. Links for hand not working well though. Supposedly there is a cheap hand version for $200-$300. V2 looks like  |
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