Open Source Robotic Arms

Basics

• This page lists the current open source robotic arms out ther ein the world

List

Hint: Please include license so there is no controversy

• Dexter - appears to be open source and trainable - [1]. FPGA controller is $900 itself, full kit about $4k. So it's expensive. Business model appears to sell the control boards. Is there a lower cost to control it?
• Thor - [2] - License - CC-BY-SA 4.0 - [3]
• Ergo Jr - [4] - CC-BY-SA
• BCN3D - MIT license - [5]. Quite sophisticated. Good candidate. Not trainable?

• Andreas Hoelldorfer is the originator of this - and is continuing development - see comments at [6]

• CHAP - [7] - BSD
• Open Source humanoid arm - [8]. GPL, CC-BY-SA

YouTube

• Trainable simple arm - [9]

No Go List - Not Open Source

• Niryo One - NC - [10]
• DOBOT- [11] - from [12]. Proprietary, with open source software replacement - [13]
• Evil Minion – open control code, closed hardware - [14]

See Also

• Industrial Robot
• Open Source Robotic Arm Construction Set

Useful Links

• MoveIt! - [15] - open source robotic arm control software from ROS
• MoveIt! appears to have trainability featurees - such as CHOMP - [16]