AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot
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…
Rebuild of Blossom is an open-source social robot platform designed for human-robot interaction research. The project includes a redesigned inner frame formatted as an assembly model kit with instructions and r0b0, a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Locofy.ai▲720Hey there, I am Honey - Co-founder at Locofy. We, along with other makers, have been building Locofy.ai to help massively accelerate the builders - the designers, developers, product managers & founders, and we're excited to share it today with the HN Community. Locofy.ai simply converts designs into production-ready frontend code for web and mobile apps. It adapts to your preferred design tools, tech stack, and workflows with ease and lets you launch upto 4x faster, while letting designers design the way they want and giving high-quality responsive code that developers love. With this…
2022 · locofy.ai · its alternatives →
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Kimi K2.6▲339Open-source SOTA for long-horizon coding and agent swarms
Apr 2026 · kimi.ai · its alternatives →
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I have been working on making WebRTC + Embedded Devices easier for a few years. This is a hackathon project that pulled some of that together. I hope others build on it/it inspires them to play with hardware. I worked on it with two other people and I had a lot of fun with some of the ideas that came out of it. * Extendable/hackable - I tried to keep the code as simple as possible so others can fork/modify easily. * Communicate with light. With function calling it changes the light bulb, so it can match your mood or feelings. * Populate info from clients you control. I wanted…
2025 · github.com · 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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My cofounder and I used to work at Robinhood where we shipped the company’s first OAuth integrations, so we know a lot about how data moves between companies. For example, we know that the pain of building new API integrations scales with the level of fragmentation and number of competing "standards". In the current meta, we see this pain with a lot of AI startups who invariably need to connect to their customers data, but have to support 50+ integrations before they even scale to 50+ customers. This is the process for an AI startup to add a new integration for a customer: - Pore over the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Recast.AI 2.0▲164The ultimate end-to-end collaborative bot platform
2017 · recastai.com · its alternatives →
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Build a team of AI specialists that deliver quality work
Mar 2026 · agentlab.morphmind.ai · its alternatives →
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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 +…
2014 · faunarobotics.com · its alternatives →
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Subgrapher▲90P2P desktop app for building, browsing, & sharing knowledge
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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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I built an early version of a social network for sharing GenAI prompts and bots created with them. GenHub is the open-soure GenAI prompt platform that allows you to: Create a profile/ join the social network Bring your own prompts Build bots with your prompts Run your bots, save the results (searchable) Run other people's bots that they created with their prompts Clone other's prompts This is a beta and things will change, break, and improve in the coming months
2023 · genhub.ai · its alternatives →
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I am a 75-year-old producer. In 2004, I helped bring "Crimson Room" to the global web. After spending 11 years in Fukushima—including 6 years working inside the nuclear power plant—I witnessed firsthand how large organizations can discard individuals. VPP (Virtual Protest Protocol) is my response to the debt-ridden, unequal society we are leaving to the next generation. It is a minimal, sprite-based protocol (MIT License) designed to create high-density, low-bandwidth civic spaces for digital dissent. Key Technical Challenges & Specs: Cell-based Scalability: To support 50,000+ concurrent…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We built Weam because we felt existing AI tools didn’t work well for teams. Everything was scattered across chats, prompts, and workflows — hard to share, harder to organize. Weam is an open-source platform that tries to fix that. Organize prompts, chats, and agents into “Brains” (team folders). Run agents and even Pro Agents for workflows. Bring your own LLM keys (works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, etc.). Self-hosted, so you keep control of your data. Includes RAG pipelines for document-based AI. It’s early but we’d love feedback. Repo here:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I am about to graduate from university this year, and I had an idea to create a mobile app similar to TikTok but for OnlyFans. Interestingly, the inspiration to replicate TikTok came from an episode of the Acquired Podcast discussing Meituan. It seemed somewhat ironic to copy a Chinese app. I ran out of money to pay rent though, so I’m looking for jobs here in Sydney instead now. I want to keep working on this project in my spare time and would appreciate any feedback and particularly guidance for how to run an open-source project!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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