Open source humanoid robotics — research papers, community projects, tutorials, and industry news.https://robotrove.com/en-ushttps://robotrove.com/blog/open-source-is-the-best-moai-for-robotics-startups/https://robotrove.com/blog/open-source-is-the-best-moai-for-robotics-startups/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.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTindustry-newsnvidiaisaac-gr00topen-sourcehumanoidunitreestartupisaac-simisaac-labros2https://robotrove.com/blog/compass-cross-embodiment-navigation/https://robotrove.com/blog/compass-cross-embodiment-navigation/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.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearch-paperscross-embodimentnavigationsim-to-realunitree-g1nvidiaopen-sourcehumanoidreinforcement-learningpolicy-distillationicra-2026https://robotrove.com/blog/why-robotic-hands-are-the-final-frontier/https://robotrove.com/blog/why-robotic-hands-are-the-final-frontier/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.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTopen-source-projectsrobotic-handsdexterous-manipulationopen-sourcehumanoidtactile-sensingros2leap-handallegro-handshadow-robothttps://robotrove.com/blog/ros2-lyrical-luth/https://robotrove.com/blog/ros2-lyrical-luth/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.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTindustry-newsros2lyrical-luthroboticsopen-sourceltsmiddlewarehttps://robotrove.com/blog/hex-cross-embodiment-vla/https://robotrove.com/blog/hex-cross-embodiment-vla/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.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearch-papersvlacross-embodimentunitree-g1unitree-h1open-sourcehumanoidmanipulationhttps://robotrove.com/blog/open-source-humanoid-robots-2026/https://robotrove.com/blog/open-source-humanoid-robots-2026/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.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTopen-source-projectshumanoidros2hardwarecommunityhttps://robotrove.com/blog/ros2-humanoid-tutorial/https://robotrove.com/blog/ros2-humanoid-tutorial/A practical guide to setting up ROS 2 Jazzy for humanoid robot simulation — from installation to your first walking controller in MuJoCo.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtutorialsros2mujocosimulationpythonhttps://robotrove.com/blog/humanoid-locomotion-survey-2025/https://robotrove.com/blog/humanoid-locomotion-survey-2025/A survey of the most significant papers on bipedal locomotion from 2025 — reinforcement learning, model predictive control, and sim-to-real transfer.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearch-paperslocomotionreinforcement-learningsim-to-realmpc