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24 alternatives to Fauna Reptile Marketplace

Hi all — I'm Kel, VP of Platform at Fauna Robotics. We're coming out of stealth and shipping Sprout (Creator Edition) today: a developer-ready humanoid robot built to be safe, approachable, and capable. We set out to build Sprout because we believe robots belong around people. Too many humanoids still feel like heavy machinery that doesn't belong in human spaces, and even the “friendlier” ones force teams to spend their time rebuilding baseline hardware and software instead of real applications. Sprout is different: lightweight and soft-bodied (1.07m / 22.7kg), with compliant control +…

Sprout is a lightweight humanoid robot from Fauna Robotics designed for developers to build applications rather than rebuild hardware. Standing 1.07 meters tall and weighing 22.7 kilograms, it features soft-bodied… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Fauna Reptile Marketplace launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Viberia▲146

    Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…

    May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →

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    The Swarm▲698

    Relationships. Are. Back.

    2025 · theswarm.com · its alternatives →

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    AI agent that helps, solves, and closes. All day, every day

    2023 · kaily.ai · its alternatives →

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    Expand your 3d creative process with AI

    2023 · spline.design · its alternatives →

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    Asimov 1▲125

    The most customizable humanoid robot you can buy

    4d ago · menlo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Ben, founder of K-Scale Labs (YC W24). Last year, I wanted to buy a humanoid robot that I could hack on, but the few options for sale were either too expensive, proprietary, or had a limited SDK. We set out to build an affordable humanoid robot using off-the-shelf components that can be built and shipped today, capable of running modern machine learning models, and make it completely open-source for developers like me. Today, we’re releasing our reinforcement learning library and sim2real pipeline for people who want to train policies for humanoid robots. If you have a computer,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sowbot is an open-hardware agricultural robot designed to close the "prototype gap" that kills most agri-robotics startups and research projects — the 18+ months spent on drivers, networking, safety watchdogs, and UI before you can even start on the thing you actually care about. The hardware is built around a stackable 10×10cm compute module with two ARM Cortex-A55 SBCs — one for ROS 2 navigation/EKF localisation, one dedicated to vision/YOLO inference — connected via a single ethernet cable. Centimetre-level positioning via dual RTK GNSS, CAN bus for field comms, and real-time…

    Feb 2026 · sowbot.co.uk · its alternatives →

  8. 8RO

    From the post: Blossom is an open-source robot platform for human-robot interaction (HRI) research that I developed during my PhD. I’ve used Blossom for research in design, machine learning, and telepresence; others have made Blossoms for their own research purposes. I have continued working on “rebuilding” the entire platform: I redesigned the inner frame as a model kit, complete with Gunpla-inspired runners and instructions, and refactored the codebase as r0b0, a Python library for communicating between hardware peripherals and software applications. In preparation to present Blossom at…

    2024 · msgtn.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Build AI Copilots & AI Agents into any React app | 12k Stars

    2024 · copilotkit.ai · its alternatives →

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    Pokee AI▲288

    Vibe Your Agentic Workflows

    Oct 2025 · pokee.ai · its alternatives →

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    Helix▲140

    Bring humanoid robots to life with language and vision

    2025 · figure.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey, we’re Axel and Vignesh, cofounders of Innate (https://www.innate.bot/). We just launched MARS, a general-purpose robot with an open onboard agentic OS built on top of ROS2. Overview: https://youtu.be/GEOMYDXv6pE Control demo: https://youtu.be/_Cw5fGa8i3s Videos of autonomous use-cases: https://docs.innate.bot/welcome/mars-example-use-cases Quickstart: https://docs.innate.bot/welcome/mars-quick-start. Our last thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451707 When we started we felt…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Sphero's newest programmable, driving robot.

    2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Remote robotic bodies that care

    2021 · devanthro.com · its alternatives →

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    BotBot▲77

    The open-source brain for any legged robot

    Feb 2026 · botbot.bot · its alternatives →

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    Autonomous delivery platform for last-mile logistics

    May 2026 · quikbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Arduino UNO-compatible robotic simulation of the C. elegans nematode - nategri/nematoduino

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Alexa-powered humanoid robot

    2017 · ubtrobot.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we build an open-source operating system extension for orchestrating robot swarms fully decentralized. This first beta version allows you to create fully decentralized robot swarms. The system will set up a wireless mesh network and run a p2p networking stack on top of it, such that nodes can interact with each other through various abstractions using our SDKs (Rust, Python, TypeScript) or a CLI. We hope this is a step toward better inter-robot communication (and a fun project if you have a few Raspberry Pis lying around). Our mesh network is created by B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv and we’ve…

    2025 · docs.p2p.industries · its alternatives →

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    Introducing Stack-chan, an open-source hardware robot designed with Fusion360 and Kicad that is easy to assemble and customize. With just 6 screws, you can easily put together the robot and add your own features using JavaScript with the Moddable SDK. Stack-chan is completely open-source and the design files, firmware and software are all available on GitHub repository (https://github.com/meganetaaan/stack-chan) . Give it a try and customize it to your needs. We'd love to see what you create and hear your feedback on this open-source project.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build Your Own Humanoid Robot

    2025 · toddlerbot.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Henry, Matt and James here – we’re building an open source toolkit that makes it easy to integrate an LLM-powered copilot that talks to your API into software products. It works by calling API endpoints which you choose to expose to it. This lets the chatbot complete tasks within your software in response to natural language queries. It’s also open source, so you don’t have to send user data to another 3rd party. We support Llama 2, but we haven’t fine-tuned Llama 2 yet (coming soon) so highest accuracy is seen with GPT-4 or fine-tuned GPT-3.5 (much faster). We started working together 2…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open robotics platform: charity, enterprise, research

    Dec 2025 · kindly.fyi · its alternatives →

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    AI-native workspace with agents and experts shipping 24/7

    Mar 2026 · vibegoat.ai · its alternatives →

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