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24 alternatives to Salem Robotics

Deploy autonomous robots for surveys and manipulation tasks

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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    Basalt▲1,154

    Small tool to get a scoring + recommandations instantly. What do you think ?

    2025 · getbasalt.ai · its alternatives →

  2. 2OR

    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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    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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    Self-hosted proactive AI assistant that lives locally

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentHub▲279

    Automate any workflow with AI

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    NBot▲383

    Personalized curators that surface what you care about

    Dec 2025 · nbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    BU▲138

    Openclaw in the cloud

    Mar 2026 · cloud.browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn your website into an AI agent with one script tag.

    Feb 2026 · rover.rtrvr.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build an autonomous industrial vehicle in sim

    2022 · polymathrobotics.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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    Your AI-Employee Working 24/7

    Feb 2026 · penguinbot.org · 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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    Sonara▲137

    Automate your job search

    2023 · 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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    Robot for Home Monitoring

    2021 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Helping our planet with environmental robots!

    2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    WorkBot▲127

    An AI platform for Customer Service and Data Insights

    2024 · workhub.ai · its alternatives →

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    BabyAGI▲141

    A pared-down version of Task-Driven Autonomous AI Agent

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sentinel▲101

    Control your robots from anywhere in the world

    Jun 2026 · avearobotics.com · its alternatives →

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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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    Ready-to-use AI robot kits for real research

    2025 · trossenrobotics.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23MP

    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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    Rex▲57

    The brain for robots

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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