What is Open-source AI Robotics?

clem Clem 🤗

With the announcement of our acquisition of Pollen Robotics, many people have been asking me what is "open-source AI robotics"?

In my opinion, it's a mix of:

• Open-source models (https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=robotics&sort=trending + LeRobot + others)
• Open-source datasets (https://huggingface.co/datasets?sort=trending&search=robot)
• Open-source hardware (can be 3D printed or standard like https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/examples/10_use_so100.md).

Anything else? Maybe ultimately, you could even have an open-source app store of robotics skills (http://hf.co/spaces?) that you pick from to train your robots to do thousands of fun and useful things.

We've been surprised to see thousands of people building their open-source robotic arms with the latest tutorial we released so we believe there's demand for it: https://x.com/search?q=so100&src=typed_query!

Let's go! 🤖🦾