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24 alternatives to Robo9

Mobile robot for education and labs

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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    Telepresence robot giving you a physical presence at work

    2015 · doublerobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    robo▲100

    A revolutionary new robotics toy for kids (pre-launch)

    2015 · rtpmega338aa.com · its alternatives →

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    Six-axis collaborative robot

    2021 · elephantrobotics.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5PT

    We just released a very excited touch sensor that finally simplifies touch sensing for robotics. Our most exciting result: Learned visuotactile policies for precise tasks like inserting USBs and credit card swiping, that work out-of-the-box when you replace skins! To the best of our knowledge, this has never been shown before with any existing tactile sensor. Why is this important? For the first time, you could now collect data and train models on one sensor and expect them to generalize to new copies of the sensor -- opening the door to the kind of large foundation models that have…

    2024 · any-skin.github.io · 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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    V-JEPA 2▲198

    Meta's world model for physical world understanding

    2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →

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    New advanced home robot

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Coding and robotics made easy for kids 🤖

    2018 · robowunderkind.com · its alternatives →

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    An robot to teach kids how to code by DJI

    2019 · dji.com · its alternatives →

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    Miimo▲175

    Robot lawn mower, by Honda.

    2017 · honda.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    A robot for every desk and every home | Top robot 2026 & diy robotic kit, robot toys!

    2019 · personalrobots.biz · its alternatives →

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    HEXA▲122

    An all-terrain hexapod robot

    2016 · 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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    Ziro▲102

    World's first maker friendly gesture controlled robotics kit

    2016 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    A robot you can create on your own, at home

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! My name is Patrick, and I am a junior at my High School’s FRC robotics team FRC 341 “Miss Daisy” (yes named after the movie). Every year, during the first weekend in January, a new robotics game is released (no it’s not battlebots). The game could be about launching balls into a goal, climbing monkeybars, or placing cubes on a see-saw. This year we were challenged to build a robot that could shoot orange foam donuts into a goal about 6 feet in the air. Here is a yt video with the game animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keeDyFxzY4&t. After we received the game…

    2024 · chiefdelphi.com · its alternatives →

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    The broke man's Boston dynamics

    2024 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Ready-to-use AI robot kits for real research

    2025 · trossenrobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    Control robots in your browser — no setup needed

    Jun 2026 · olo-robotics.com · its alternatives →

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    Kamibot▲109

    A robot that teaches your kids to code

    2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Robots for classrooms

    2015 · vexrobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn coding with a screenless robot

    2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    How to Make a CHIP Robot. In this tutorial we walk you through how to build and make a C.H.I.P. robot with the $9 Computer.

    2016 · dexterindustries.com · its alternatives →

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