Research papers, community projects, tutorials, and industry news — everything you need to follow the world of open source humanoid robotics.
FlashDreams is NVIDIA's Apache 2.0 inference framework for real-time autoregressive world models. Built for robotics synthetic training data and sim-to-real pipelines, it delivers 68–103 FPS closed-loop generation with OmniDreams on GB300, and ships first-party integrations for OmniDreams, Cosmos-Predict2.5, and Self-Forcing.
NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T Reference Robot drops the full stack — hardware, simulation, models, deployment — under open licenses. Here's why that changes the economics of starting a robotics company.
NVIDIA's COMPASS uses residual reinforcement learning and policy distillation to deploy a single navigation policy across wheeled and legged platforms — with zero-shot sim-to-real transfer on the Unitree G1 humanoid.
The human hand is a 27-bone masterpiece honed over millions of years of evolution. Replicating it in silicon and steel is why companies are spending decades and billions on a single appendage. Here is why the hand matters, why it is so hard to build, and which open-source projects are democratizing dexterity.
ROS 2 Lyrical Luth is now available as the twelfth ROS 2 release and the latest Long Term Support (LTS) edition, supported until May 2031. Here's a breakdown of the features that matter most for robotics developers.
HEX is a 2.4B-parameter open-source VLA model pretrained on 12 million frames from seven different humanoid robots — and it controls all of them with a single policy.
From Open Duck Mini to Zeroth Bot — a survey of the open source humanoid robot projects you can actually build, study, or contribute to today.