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Valetudo — Open-source, cloud-free local control layer for supported LiDAR robot vacuums (Dreame, Roborock), replacing vendor clouds with loc
Wire-Pod (Digital Dream Labs Vector 1.0 & 2.0) — Community-maintained local server bypass for Vector's voice/cloud features, an alternative to the official subscription.
OpenMoxie — Community-developed local server framework restoring conversational function to Embodied Moxie units after the official cloud shut
OpenMower — Open-source firmware and carrier board converting perimeter-wire mowers (e.g. YardForce Classic 500) into wire-free, RTK-accurate
Unitree SDK2 (unitree_sdk2_python) — Official local control SDK for Unitree Go2 and G1, built on CycloneDDS — no vendor app required.
Unitree SDK2 (C++) — Official C++ local control SDK for Unitree's humanoid and quadruped robots, the native counterpart to unitree_sdk2_python.
Unitree ROS2 — Official ROS2 packages and bringup configs for Unitree robots, built on top of the SDK2 control layer.
Unitree MuJoCo — Official MuJoCo simulation environment for Unitree robots, used for testing control code before deploying to hardware.
Unitree RL Lab — Official reinforcement-learning training framework for Unitree robots, covering locomotion policy training and sim-to-real deploym
stackchan-kai — Independent, clean-slate Rust firmware for the M5Stack CoreS3 Stack-chan — no_std, built on Embassy, with no cloud dependency.
AiboHack RCode (legacy Sony Aibo ERS-210/220/31x) — Long-running community hacking framework for extending autonomous behavior on legacy Aibo memory-stick models.
VacuumTiger — Rust-based open-source firmware stack for hackable robot vacuums, replacing proprietary vendor SDKs with local network streaming a
ESPHome Firmware for Litter-Robot 4 — Community ESPHome-based firmware replacing the Litter-Robot 4's stock ESP32 software, enabling fully local Home Assistant control
dorita980 — Unofficial local API library for Wi-Fi-enabled iRobot Roombas (600 series through Combo 10 Max), enabling LAN-only control without
OpenToys — Local-first, on-device AI platform for children's electronic toys and companion robots, processing voice data without a cloud depe
QBIT — Open-source ESP32-C3 desktop companion robot and personal IoT avatar, with dot-matrix animation firmware and published hardware pa
Eidon Tracker — Open-hardware, battery-powered IMU-to-Bluetooth wearable for capturing human motion, released by Eidon AI after the company shut down: PlatformIO firmware, PCB files, 3D-printable enclosure, and a whitepaper. MIT-licensed.
Eidon Glove — Open-hardware hand-tracking glove from Eidon AI, a 16-DOF Bluetooth HID device for humanoid teleoperation and embodied-AI data collection: ESP32-C3 firmware, KiCad PCB files, and a 3D-printable exoskeleton. The repository has no LICENSE file.
AIBO ERS-7 OPEN-R SDK — Community-archived SDK and neural-network framework for the Sony AIBO ERS-7, letting owners compile custom walking gaits and behav

Configs & Recipes

Valetudo Map Card for Home Assistant — Community Lovelace card rendering live Valetudo map/zone data inside Home Assistant dashboards.
CHAMP Quadruped Control Framework — Open-source ROS framework for building quadruped robots and developing new control algorithms, with pre-configured robots includin
Worx Landroid Home Assistant Automation Recipe — Community integration recipe (via the Landroid Cloud HACS integration) for scheduling and monitoring Worx Landroid mowers from Hom
Wire-Pod Local LLM Hook Recipes — Community configuration recipes wiring Wire-Pod's chat intent into locally-hosted LLMs instead of a cloud API.
LeRobot Teleoperation Calibration Presets — Community-shared calibration presets for teleoperating and training SO-100/SO-101 arms with Hugging Face LeRobot.
Roomba-MQTT-Integration — Community hardware and MQTT recipe using an ESP8266 to retrofit older, offline Roomba 600/700/800 models with Wi-Fi and Home Assis
Autonomous Vacuum Web Dashboard — Community-shared tuning parameters, sensor debouncing maps, and a web dashboard for customizing cleaning behavior on ESP32-based r

Open Source

Hugging Face LeRobot Humanoid — Open-source humanoid platform under the LeRobot project.
LeRobot Humanoid Hardware — BOM, STL files, and wiring/assembly docs for the LeRobot humanoid platform (Apache-2.0).
Xiaomi CyberDog 2 — Open-source quadruped platform with public ROS2 stack.
Petoi Bittle X V2 — Runs OpenCatEsp32, the ESP32/BiBoard branch of Petoi's OpenCat quadruped framework.
MangDang Mini Pupper 2 Pro — Open-source ROS robot dog kit.
SO-101 — Successor to SO-100, same open-source LeRobot lineage.
Elephant Robotics myCobot 280 — Open-source 6-axis collaborative arm, Python/ROS support.
Waveshare RoArm-M2-S — Open hardware + firmware desktop arm kit.
Annin Robotics AR4 — Open-source 6-axis arm, machined or 3D-printed at home.
ROBOTIS Open-Manipulator-X — ROBOTIS's official open-source manipulator platform.
Arctos Robotics Arm — 3D-printable open-source 6-axis arm.
AlohaMini — Open-source 3D-printable dual-arm mobile robot, LeRobot-native.
LeKiwi — Low-cost open-source holonomic mobile manipulator base.
Linorobot2 — Open-source ROS2 framework for DIY autonomous mobile robots.
Otto DIY Maker Kit — Open-source 3D-printed bipedal robot kit with open hardware, firmware, and app.
TurtleBot4 / Clearpath TurtleBot — ROS 2 educational/research robot with its full navigation, drivers, and simulation stack open-sourced — software only; hardware is
Waveshare UGV Rover Series — Raspberry Pi/ESP32-powered tracked rover chassis with open firmware and demo code for motion control, ROS, and AI-camera vision —
stack-chan/stack-chan — Official open-source firmware, remote-control firmware, and mobile app source for the Stack-chan desktop robot platform, co-develo
GELLO — A low-cost, general-purpose teleoperation controller from Stanford's IRIS lab — a 3D-printed, DYNAMIXEL-servo leader arm that mirr
Elephant Robotics ultraArm P340 — Elephant Robotics' own pymycobot Python SDK, genuinely MIT-licensed and verified against its GitHub LICENSE file, includes a dedic
WLKATA Mirobot Education Kit — WLKATA's own genuinely open-source, MIT-licensed, PC-side Python SDK for controlling Mirobot; the arm's onboard firmware itself is
AgileX PiPER — AgileX's own official, MIT-licensed Python SDK for controlling the PiPER arm, published under its GitHub organization.
Letianpai Rux Robot — Letianpai's own official, GPLv2-licensed open-source system ROM for GeeUI, the software platform running on the Rux Robot.
Moorebot Scout — Moorebot's own official open-source repository for Scout, covering its recognition and extension-framework code (confirmed MIT-lic
SunFounder PiCar-X — SunFounder's own official Python library repository for PiCar-X.
Waveshare JetRacer — Waveshare's own GitHub fork of NVIDIA's original open-source JetRacer project, adapted for its pre-assembled AI Kit hardware.
SunFounder GalaxyRVR — SunFounder's own GPL-3.0-licensed firmware repository for GalaxyRVR.
Microduck — Pollen Robotics' own official open-source repository for Microduck, the duck-like biped robot it developed alongside Hugging Face.
Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini — Pollen Robotics' official Apache 2.0-licensed SDK (Python and JavaScript) for Reachy Mini, verified against its GitHub LICENSE fil
Pololu 3pi+ 2040 — Pololu's own official, MIT-licensed example code repository for the 3pi+ 2040 robot.
Blossom — Handcrafted open-source social robot (Cornell HRC2/interaction-lab) built from a 3D-printed frame, tensile cable-driven motion, an

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