robotindex About robotindex
robotindex is an open registry for physical robotics.
robotindex details robotics data verified, structured, and auditable. Every platform is indexed directly from technical datasheets, teardowns, regulatory filings, datasets, and upstream Git repositories.
When evaluating a robotic platform, the biggest friction point is discovering whether the hardware actually has working open-source drivers, active controllers, or usable policies, or if it’s just a glossy product render.
- Audited Schemas: We index raw hardware primitives, including actuator torque ceilings, degrees of freedom, onboard compute, and sensor topologies.
- Code as Attributable Spec: We track the repositories written for each platform. A driver, a controller, or a trained policy is evidence the hardware is reachable.
- Data as Provenance: We track public datasets recorded on each platform: episodes, trajectories, and sensor streams. A dataset recorded on a robot is direct evidence that the platform has been operated in practice, which a product page cannot establish.
- The Unattached Layer: We track simulators, physics engines, world models, perception stacks, policy architectures, benchmarks, and training corpora: MuJoCo, Genesis, Bullet, Isaac, LeRobot, Open X-Embodiment, Cosmos. Roughly 80% of indexed repositories and two-thirds of datasets are hardware agnostic.
- Strict Open Source: The badge requires a public repository with an approved OSI or hardware license.
- Direct Interfaces: We prioritize local control over cloud lock-in. If a bot exposes RTSP streams, local REST/WebSocket endpoints, or native ROS 2 packages, it’s surfaced here.
What's here
Robots
Live
Products organized across nine categories, from humanoids and robot arms to lawn mowers, security cameras, children companions, and DIY coding kits. Platforms graduate to Featured only when their core specs are independently corroborated; everything else starts as New, Pending, or Under Review while availability and specs are verified. Every entry links through to a full product page with specs, pricing, sourcing notes, and a link to its open-source repo or community firmware project, when available.
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Orgs
Live
A current watch list of robotics organizations across ten categories: foundation-model labs, humanoid and arm makers, simulation and tooling projects, big-tech research groups, and academic labs. Each entry links to its GitHub and Hugging Face organizations, alongside the product pages covering what they build.
These organizations are tracked separately from the main index on the premise that institutional funding, growth, and research trajectories require distinct analysis. Smaller companies and startups may not qualify for this list, though their individual repositories, datasets, and products are fully cataloged across the registry.
The main index enforces a floor of 50 stars for a repository or 100 monthly downloads for a dataset, selected by publication output rather than raw popularity.
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These organizations are tracked separately from the main index on the premise that institutional funding, growth, and research trajectories require distinct analysis. Smaller companies and startups may not qualify for this list, though their individual repositories, datasets, and products are fully cataloged across the registry.
The main index enforces a floor of 50 stars for a repository or 100 monthly downloads for a dataset, selected by publication output rather than raw popularity.
Repos & Datasets
Live
Five core sources capture active robotics work: GitHub repositories, Hugging Face datasets, tracked organizations, arXiv papers, and ongoing releases across developer communities and subreddits.
Coming soon: monthly robotics trends and analysis.
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Coming soon: monthly robotics trends and analysis.
Models & Training
Live
The AI substrate powering physical robotics: world models, simulation and reinforcement learning training infrastructure, and the core datasets that power modern policies. Out of thousands of ingested repositories, only those clearing strict validation gates—such as active community adoption, verified provenance, and clear utility for physical AI—surface in this index.
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Builds & Mods
Live
The open-source hardware repositories, community firmware replacements, and configuration recipes that stand behind the products in the directory. These entries give builders root level access to flash boards, tune controllers, and bypass manufacturer vendor lock in.
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Discussion
Phase 2
Threaded discussions attached to individual products and builds for field reports, troubleshooting, and firmware chatter, kept separate from fact-checked directory entries.
Developers
Phase 2
Transforms robotindex into programmatic infrastructure. Through deterministic REST and GraphQL endpoints alongside an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, developers and agents can query verified hardware by exact constraints.
Every machine exports into normalized robot.yaml manifests that plug directly into ROS 2 setups, containerized environments, and physical simulation engines.
The registry will distribute nightly flat snapshots in JSON and SQLite formats, backed by webhooks that alert downstream services to new firmware audits, tier verifications, and community builds. github.com/robotindex/robotindex-data.
Every machine exports into normalized robot.yaml manifests that plug directly into ROS 2 setups, containerized environments, and physical simulation engines.
The registry will distribute nightly flat snapshots in JSON and SQLite formats, backed by webhooks that alert downstream services to new firmware audits, tier verifications, and community builds. github.com/robotindex/robotindex-data.