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24 alternatives to Kindly Robotics

Open robotics platform: charity, enterprise, research

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hi all, excited to share our latest work, OK-Robot, which is an open and modular framework to perform navigation and manipulation with a robot assistant in practically any homes without having to teach the robot anything new! You can simply unbox the target robot, install OK-Robot, give it a "scan" (think a 60 second iPhone video), and start asking the robot to move arbitrary things from A to B. We already tested it out in 10 home environments in New York city, and one environment each in Pittsburgh and Fremont. We based everything off of the current best machine learning models, and so…

    2024 · ok-robot.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Promptly▲319

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    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Proud to share our open-source robot platform, Dobb·E, a home robot system that needs just 5 minutes of human teaching to learn new tasks. We've already taken Dobb·E to 10 different homes in New York, taught it 100+ tasks, and we are just getting started! I would love to hear your thoughts about this. Here are some more details, below (or see a Twitter thread with attached media: https://twitter.com/i/status/1729515379892826211 or https://nitter.net/i/status/1729515379892826211): We engineered Dobb·E to maximize efficiency, safety, and…

    2023 · dobb-e.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 →

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    A gig platform for skill-based volunteering.

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    Your favorite smoothies and juices made by a friendly robot

    2020 · robojuice.ai · its alternatives →

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    MODI▲220

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    Dokko▲185

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    Get advice from a helpful human, now available in Slack.

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    A fun way to give kudos to your teammates!

    2017 · growbot.io · its alternatives →

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    SwearJar▲135

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    Need a little good news in your life?

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    Raise money for charity with your computer's idle processing

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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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    An emotionally aware, humanoid robot

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    Humblebot▲131

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