Robots

Can A Thousand Tiny Swarming Robots Outsmart Nature?

Awesome Robotic Tooling

Drake - Model-Based Design and Verification for Robotics.

Awesome Robotics

Covariant - AI Robotics for the Real World. (Article)

Underactuated Robotics - Algorithms for Walking, Running, Swimming, Flying, and Manipulation.

VIPER - Volume Invariant Position-based Elastic Rods

Machine learning & Robotics: My (biased) 2019 state of the field

MiniNet: An Efficient Semantic Segmentation ConvNet for Real-time Robotic Applications

Projects from edX | CSMM.103x Robotics

Mithi's Hexapod Robot Simulator

Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot (HN)

Flowers Inria - Studies mechanisms that can allow robots and humans to acquire autonomously and cumulatively repertoires of novel skills over extended periods of time.

Stanford Quadruped - Raspberry Pi-based quadruped robots that can trot, walk, and jump.

PyRep - Toolkit for robot learning research.

Venom : All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

REx Lab - Stanford Robotic Exploration Lab.

Open Robotics - Offer robotics R&D, consulting, custom engineering, and application development services to industry and government.

Investing in Robotics with YC Founder Trevor Blackwell (2020) (HN)

A beginner’s guide to robot programming with Python (2020)

Sergey Levine's research

S-RL Toolbox - Reinforcement Learning (RL) and State Representation Learning (SRL) for Robotics.

Open problems in Robotics (2020) (HN)

Robots I Love (2020)

Multiply Labs - Personalized medicine. Enabled by robotics.

Guided Curriculum Learning for Walking Over Complex Terrain (2020)

PythonRobotics - Python sample codes for robotics algorithms. (Web)

Obstacle avoiding robot made with the avr-hal crate, all in Rust

Agility Robotics (The Next Steps (2020))

Vicarious - Intelligent Robotics for the Next Age of Manufacturing.

How do you Architect your Robots? State of the Practice and Guidelines for ROS-based System (Code)

Multiprotocol TX Module - 2.4GHz transmitter module which enables almost any transmitter to control many different receivers and models, including many popular helicopters, planes, quadcopters, and miniquads.

Robotkernel - Robot Framework IPython kernel for Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab.

Simbody - High-performance C++ multibody dynamics/physics library for simulating articulated biomechanical and mechanical systems like vehicles, robots, and the human skeleton. (Web)

OpenSim Core - Software that lets users develop models of musculoskeletal structures and create dynamic simulations of movement.

PyDy - Multibody dynamics tool kit.

yeadon - Human inertia model developed by Fred Yeadon in 1990.

Resonance - Learning Mechanical Vibration Engineering Through Computation.

Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) in PyTorch

How to build robots at home (2020)

Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at CoRL 2020

droidlet - High-level robotics-agent and platform.

Robotics Toolbox for Python

Robot Framework - Generic open source automation framework. It can be used for test automation and robotic process automation (RPA). (Code) (HN)

$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2 (2020) (HN)

Probabilistic Robotics

Springer Handbook of Robotics

Planning Algorithms / Motion Planning by Steve Lavalle

Robotics - Modelling, Planning and Control by Bruno Siciliano

Robotic Manipulation (2020)

Assistive Gym - Physics-based simulation framework for physical human-robot interaction and robotic assistance.

Caesar.jl - Robot toolkit: Towards non-parametric and parametric navigation solutions.

JuliaRobotics - Robotics powered by Julia. (GitHub)

Robogym - Robotics Gym Environments.

Mathematics Behind Robotics (2020)

GraspNet - Large-Scale Benchmark for General Object Grasping. (Code)

Getting Started in Robotics (2021) (HN)

FERM: A Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

The Way Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance (2021) (HN)

HKU MaRS Lab - Focuses on general mechatronic systems and robotics, with emphasis on their practical use in real human life and industry. (GitHub)

Building General-Purpose Robots (2021)

OpenRR - Open Rust Robotics.

Rearranging the Visual World (2021)

RELLIS-3D: A Multi-modal Dataset for Off-Road Robotics (Web)

Robotics Courses List

Vention - Build your machine today. Receive it tomorrow.

DART - Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit. (Code)

PyRobot - Open Source Robotics Research Platform. (Web)

Foxglove - Visualization and Debugging for Robotics. (Code) (GitHub) (Twitter)

towr - Light-weight, Eigen-based C++ library for trajectory optimization for legged robots.

Smart Robotics Lab at Imperial College

Christoper Choi's Research

How To Become a Robotics Software Engineer (2021)

CLVR (Cognitive Learning for Vision and Robotics Lab) (GitHub)

Science and Engineering for Learning Robots (2021)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Grasping from Octrees (Paper)

Kidnapped Robot Problem (2021)

How Robots Can Learn End-to-End From Data (2021)

Robotic ‘Third Thumb’ use can alter brain representation of the hand (Tweet)

Rogue Robotics - Creative electronics engineering company.

Verifiable Robotics Research Group (GitHub)

3D Printing with a Robot Arm (2021)

The Importance of A/B Testing in Robotics (2021)

BOLeRo - Behavior Optimization and Learning for Robots.

RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots (HN)

Intrinsic - Unlocking creative and economic potential with industrial robotics. (Intro) (HN)

Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? (2021) (HN)

RoFI - Metamorphic Distributed Robots

Frankx - High-Level Motion Library for Collaborative Robots.

Robot Learning of Shifting Objects for Grasping in Cluttered Environments

CausalWorld - Robotic Manipulation Benchmark for Causal Structure and Transfer Learning.

The Polar Bear - Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis. (Code) (HN)

Linorobot - Autonomous ground robots (2WD, 4WD, Ackermann Steering, Mecanum Drive). (Web)

RaiSim - Cross-platform multi-body physics engine for robotics and AI. (Code)

Photogrammetry & Robotics Bonn (GitHub)

Crocoddyl - Efficient and Versatile Framework for Multi-Contact Optimal Control (ICRA). (Web)

CLIPort: What and Where Pathways for Robotic Manipulation (2021) (Code)

Differentiable and learnable robot model - Implements computations such as forward kinematics and inverse dynamics, in a fully differentiable way.

YARR - Yet Another Robotics and Reinforcement (YARR) learning framework for PyTorch.

IKBT - Python package to solve robot arm inverse kinematics in symbolic form.

Learning Periodic Tasks from Human Demonstrations (2021) (Tweet)

Towards Learning to Play Piano with Dexterous Hands and Touch (2021)

Bridge Data: Boosting Generalization of Robotic Skills with Cross-Domain Datasets (2021) (Web) (Tweet)

dm_robotics - Libraries, tools and tasks created and used at DeepMind Robotics.

Robots Must Be Ephemeralized (2021)

Attention-driven Robotic Manipulation (ARM)

PyTouch: A Machine Learning Library for Touch Processing (2021) (Code)

Implicit Behavioral Cloning (2021) (Code)

STORM - Stochastic Tensor Optimization for Robot Motion - A GPU Robot Motion Toolkit.

Geometry-ware multi-task policy can not only manipulate 100+ objects but also outperform single-task RL experts

SoftGym: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation (2020) (Code)

Conference of Robotic Learning 2021

RoboStack - Bundling of the Robot Operating System (ROS) by Open Robotics. (Paper) (Tweet)

Everyday Robots - Helper robots that learn. (Tweet)

Weekly Selection of Robot Videos

Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group (GitHub)

Rex - OpenAI Gym environments for an open-source quadruped robot (SpotMicro).

robo-gym - Open source toolkit for Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning on real and simulated robots.

Neural-Control Family: What Deep Learning + Control Enables in the Real World (2021) (Tweet)

RPA Framework - Open-source libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

Xenobots: replicating living robots made from frog cells (2021) (HN)

Beyond Pick-and-Place: Tackling Robotic Stacking of Diverse Shapes (2021) (Code)

Open Dynamic Robot Initiative - Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research.

Research Notes on Humanoid Robots (2021)

iGibson: A Simulation Environment to train Robots in Large Realistic Interactive Scenes (Web)

Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots (2018)

HKU MaRS Lab - Mechatronics and Robotic Systems (MaRS) Laboratory. (GitHub)

Main Street Autonomy - Sell software that makes robots work.

coffee - Deepmind Robotics moma API for PyBullet.

Towards Practical Multi-Object Manipulation using Relational Reinforcement Learning (2019) (Code)

Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics (HN)

Robotics 101: Computational Linear Algebra

Evolution Gym: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evolving Soft Robots (Code)

Kimera: an Open-Source Library for Real-Time Metric-Semantic Localization and Mapping (2020) (Code)

Probabilistic Robotics (2005) - Introduction to the techniques and algorithms of the newest field in robotics. (Code)

linorobot2 - Autonomous mobile robots (2WD, 4WD, Mecanum Drive).

Motion Capture via Probabilistic Inference (2019)

Learning to Walk in Minutes Using Massively Parallel Deep Reinforcement Learning (2021) (Code)

Robotic Systems Lab | ETH Zurich (GitHub)

Differentiable Gaussian Process Motion Planning (2020) (Code)

Dojo - Differentiable physics simulator for robotics.

DojoPy - Python interface for Dojo.

OCS2 Toolbox - Optimal Control for Switched Systems.

Robot-Centric Elevation Mapping

Charge Robotics - Robots that build solar farms. (HN)

SurRoL: An Open-source Reinforcement Learning Centered and dVRK Compatible Platform for Surgical Robot Learning (2021) (Code)

SafePicking: Learning Safe Object Extraction via Object-Level Mapping (2022) (Code)

LiDAR-Camera Calibration using 3D-3D Point correspondences (2017) (Code)

Continuum Robot Examples - Incremental guide to continuum robot mathematical modeling and numerical implementation.

Tutorial: Tools for Robotic Reinforcement Learning (2022) (Code)

SymForce - Fast symbolic computation, code generation, and nonlinear optimization for robotics. (Docs)

Index Pick and Place - Open source pick and place machine to aid in Mid-Scale Manufacturing.

From rigid to soft to biological robots (2022)

iSDF: Real-Time Neural Signed Distance Fields for Robot Perception (2022) (Code)

CHAMP - Open source development framework for building new quadrupedal robots and developing new control algorithms.

Urdfpy - Python parser for URDFs.

SimNet: Enabling Robust Unknown Object Manipulation from Pure Synthetic Data via Stereo (2021) (Code)

OpenMower - DIY Smart Mowing Robot for Everyone. (Video) (HN)

ODriveHardware - High performance motor control.

PyTorch Robot Kinematics

ROS Best Practices, Conventions and Tricks (Code)

ANYbotics - Autonomous Legged Robots for Industrial Inspection. (GitHub)

Hero 2.0, an ultra-low cost 3D-printed robotics platform (HN)

Cloud Robotics Core - Open source platform that provides infrastructure essential to building and running robotics solutions for business automation. (Web)

Common path planning algorithms used in robotics

Awesome Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2)

Asking robots to design stained glass windows (2022) (HN)

R3M: A Universal Visual Representation for Robot Manipulation (2022) (Code)

MCAP - Modular, performant, and serialization-agnostic container file format for pub/sub messages, primarily intended for use in robotics applications. (Web)

Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs? (2022)

Robotic Exploration Lab (GitHub)

Wandering Robots in the Wild (2022)

Spectral Measurement Sparsification for Pose-Graph SLAM (2022) (Code)

Marine Robotics Group @ MIT (GitHub)

Towards robot accelerators, democratizing hardware acceleration in robotics (HN)

What type of software is widely used for robotics in industry? (2022)

Roboticists discover alternative physics (2022) (HN)

GenLoco: Generalized Locomotion Controllers for Quadrupedal Robots (2022) (Code)

Hybrid Robotics (GitHub)

Robotic Processing Unit - Robot-specific processing unit. Contains CPUs, FPGAs and GPUs and maps ROS efficiently to them for best performance.

TEASER++ - Fast and robust point cloud registration library.