Enactic OpenArm 2.0

Enactic designs the arm but does not manufacture it, so the price depends on the seller. Enactic's own figure is a complete bimanual OpenArm 2.0 system from about $6,500 through certified manufacturers in Japan, China and Taiwan. WowRobo lists the earlier OpenArm V1.1, one set of two arms with grippers, at $5,000 by bank transfer, $5,400 by card or CNY 38,800 in China, with a quoted 10-15 day production lead time. OpenELAB lists a WowRobo OpenArm at $9,999 each, $19,998 for a leader and follower pair. A third party reports a self-build from the published bill of materials at under $3,000. Two related open-source products complete the 2.0 ecosystem: the OpenArm Cell, a standard evaluation enclosure with fixed background, lighting, cameras and arm position, at $6,200, and the OpenArm KER, a 1.7 kg motorless shoulder-worn leader arm at 70% scale with 15-bit magnetic encoders, at $2,599. Prices exclude shipping. The spread is wide enough to confirm with the seller before ordering. robotindex does not sell this product and takes no commission from any seller listed.

Most research arms are open in the sense that you can write code for them. OpenArm is open in the sense that you can build one: CAD, STEP files, Fusion 360 assemblies, firmware, control software and simulation assets are all published, and the hardware carries CERN-OHL-S-2.0 rather than a licence covering only the software layer. That is why this page carries the Open Source badge. The more unusual part of 2.0 is the OpenArm Cell, a standard enclosure meant to let a result from one lab be reproduced in another under identical conditions; whether it is adopted widely remains to be seen. The KER leader arm maps its joints one to one to the follower, so teleoperation needs no coordinate transform. Support is broad: Hugging Face's LeRobot v0.5.0 added native OpenArm support on 9 March 2026, and Enactic maintains ROS 2, MuJoCo and URDF repositories, with the main repository at roughly 3,600 GitHub stars. Timeline: a first public beta in February 2025, the formal launch of OpenArm 01 on 23 July 2025, Release No.2 (v1.1) on 31 October 2025, OpenArm 2.0 in May 2026 with a redesigned gripper, the Cell and VR teleoperation, and KER v0.2.0 on 26 June 2026. Documentation is at docs.openarm.dev.