Robot Development
36 tools
Robot development platforms cover operating systems (ROS/ROS 2), simulators (Gazebo, Isaac Sim), dev kits (NVIDIA Jetson) and learning platforms. ROS 2 is the de facto standard — learning it means speaking the industry's common language. Suggested path: ROS 2 basics + Gazebo simulation (zero hardware cost), then a Jetson kit or arm for hands-on validation.
Sunday ACT-1
Robot Development
Sunday Robotics' ACT-1 is a robot foundation model trained on zero robot data, learning from humans via the Skill Capture Glove.
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NVIDIA Newton
Robot Development
Newton is an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp for roboticists and simulation researchers.
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Physical Intelligence pi0
Robot Development
Physical Intelligence pi0 is a general-purpose robot foundation model from Physical Intelligence.
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MuJoCo Playground
Robot Development
MuJoCo Playground is an open-source library from Google DeepMind for GPU-accelerated robot learning and sim-to-real transfer.
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MoveIt Pro
Robot Development
MoveIt Pro is PickNik Robotics' commercial platform for developing and deploying robot arm applications.
InOrbit
Robot Development
InOrbit provides an AI-powered robot orchestration platform for software-defined operations at scale.
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Viam
Robot Development
Viam is a robotics software platform for building, deploying, and managing robotics applications across the entire lifecycle.
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Intrinsic Flowstate
Robot Development
Intrinsic is an Alphabet software and AI robotics company building a platform for the next generation of intelligent automation.
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SAPIEN
Robot Development
SAPIEN is an open-source simulated environment and dataset for learning and evaluating embodied AI agents.
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iGibson
Robot Development
iGibson is a simulation environment from StanfordVL for training robots in large realistic interactive scenes.
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Habitat 3.0
Robot Development
Habitat 3.0 is a Meta AI embodied AI simulation platform for studying collaborative human-robot interaction in home environments.
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Drake
Robot Development
Drake is a C++ toolbox for model-based design and verification of robotics, started by MIT's Robot Locomotion Group.
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RLBench
Robot Development
RLBench is a large-scale robot learning benchmark and environment for vision-guided manipulation research.
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PyBullet
Robot Development
PyBullet is an open-source Python module for physics simulation, robotics, and machine learning.
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Reachy 2
Robot Development
Reachy 2 is a humanoid robot developed by Pollen Robotics for interactive and manipulation applications.
LeKiwi
Robot Development
LeKiwi is an open-source mobile robot platform from Hugging Face's LeRobot project for assembling, teleoperating, and training real-world robot policies.
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NVIDIA Omniverse
Robot Development
NVIDIA Omniverse provides libraries and microservices for building industrial digital twins and robotics simulation applications.
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NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6
Robot Development
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T is an open reference platform for building, training, testing, and deploying AI-powered humanoid robots.
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SO-ARM101
Robot Development
SO-101 is Hugging Face LeRobot's flagship robot arm, documented with assembly, motor setup, and calibration instructions.
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NVIDIA Isaac ROS
Robot Development
NVIDIA Isaac ROS is a collection of CUDA-accelerated packages and AI models for building advanced AI robotics applications on ROS 2.
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NVIDIA Isaac Lab
Robot Development
NVIDIA Isaac Lab is an open-source, GPU-accelerated simulation framework for training robot policies at scale.
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SmolVLA
Robot Development
SmolVLA is a compact 450M open-source Vision-Language-Action model from Hugging Face, pretrained on community-shared LeRobot datasets.
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NVIDIA Cosmos
Robot Development
NVIDIA Cosmos is a world foundation model platform for developing physical AI such as robots and autonomous vehicles.
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Gemini Robotics 2
Robot Development
Gemini Robotics 2 is Google DeepMind's most advanced vision-language-action model for controlling many types of robots.
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Open-RMF
Robot Development
Open-source platform for multi-robot fleet coordination
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Husarion
Robot Development
Hardware and software solutions for building ROS-based robots.
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The Construct
Robot Development
Learn ROS and robotics through online courses and simulations.
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Formant
Robot Development
Cloud platform for managing and scaling robot fleets.
Foxglove
Robot Development
Visualize and debug robotics data in real time.
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MoveIt
Robot Development
Open-source software for robot motion planning and manipulation
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CoppeliaSim
Robot Development
Versatile robot simulation framework with advanced physics
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Webots
Robot Development
Open-source robot simulator for research and education
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NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Robot Development
Photorealistic robot simulation on Omniverse
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ROS (Robot Operating System)
Robot Development
The open-source backbone of robotics
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Hugging Face LeRobot
Robot Development
Open-source robot learning for everyone
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Gazebo
Robot Development
Classic open-source robot simulator
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FAQ
How to start robot development from zero?
Path: Python/C++ basics → official ROS 2 tutorials → navigation/grasping demos in Gazebo → a Jetson Orin or Raspberry Pi for hardware. You can start with zero hardware cost.
ROS or ROS 2?
Go straight to ROS 2. ROS 1 is end-of-life (Noetic was the last release); all new projects and job requirements are ROS 2.
Can simulation replace real-robot testing?
It covers 70-80% of algorithm validation (navigation, planning, vision), but sensor noise and mechanical tolerances — the sim-to-real gap — require real hardware.