Build a humanoid robot yourself! 🪚 OpenArm is an open-source humanoid robot. It comes with full CAD, control code, firmware, and simulation tools, everything needed to build, modify, and operate it. The arms are designed to be compliant and backdrivable. Teleoperation is supported, with force feedback and real-time gravity... compensation so operators can guide the arm naturally. Super important, on the simulation side, OpenArm works with platforms like MuJoCo and Isaac Sim, letting developers test policies in virtual environments before running on hardware. Assemble it yourself from a kit or get it prebuilt, the goal is accessibility for research labs, small teams, and enthusiasts. The project is run by Enactic in Tokyo, Japan, and aims to lower the barrier for experimenting with dexterous manipulation. Let's put robotics in mainstream! 🔥🔥 P.S. I put the project page in the comments!show more

Start building:

who can I throw money at to to get this delivered in a box?

This robot is better at the bottle flip challenge than humans.

Finally robots can welcome people with open arms

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@jicapal wonder if you could put this in a backpack and use at work to be hands free in some situations like doc ock

Also @enactic_ai

@enactic_ai shiiii, couldn’t find them somehow, hope the link to GitHub is enough ✌🏼

6500$ according to the hardware docs

OpenArm hits the sweet spot between accessibility and real-world capability — bridging simulation with compliant hardware is exactly what open-source robotics needed. This could accelerate the next wave of embodied AI innovation.

Interesting. We’ve been working on a platform that lets robotics teams run full digital-twin simulations before deploying to hardware, letting real-world robots learn faster and safer. Love seeing open-source projects like this pushing dexterous manipulation into the mainstream

The teleoperation looks nice with almost 0 latency.

we got robot arms now

okay, I will. and thank you, let's!

very cool

Excellent idea 💡!

Can I deploy on Docker?

Bookmarked This looks awesome. In this age of AI no maker/robotics enthusiast has an excuse to not create stuff like this, now that AI is eliminating all technical expertise barriers.

looks pretty efficient ! nicely done

brb setting this up in my home office

Compliant, backdrivable arms are not just safe; they are a cheat code for learning and teleop data. Switch on gravity compensation, then the arm feels weightless; you can guide it by hand and record trajectories, torques, and contact events to replay or train policies later. Add a simple wrist force torque estimate from motor current and joint velocity; now you can do ad hoc haptics, bump detection, and soft grasping. Bonus: use sim to autotune impedance modes: soft for exploration, stiff for precision, medium for everyday tasks. Cheap tactile works too: foam pads with conductive film become touch sensors; great for learning where the robot contacts the world. Build; demo; record; refine; repeat; that is the loop that turns open hardware into capable behavior.

Is it going to be compatible with cameras and automation? I need arms that can be mounted and fully automated. This is the first example I have seen that looks to be fast enough.

I believe this will a the future of robots , Lego type diy assembly of the hardware and open source and ai for the rest

Love it. How much $ is budget for arm?

Not sure if I’m more impressed by the project or the teleoperator assembling that box!

This is so good for many of us out there.

Awesome

can i order one?

Avengers assemble

How much? 💰

Congrats!! Legs next?

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'we was promised robot legs' ;{