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24 alternatives to xArm
The most cost-effective intuitive industrial robotic arm
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. xArm launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A cost-effective robot arm for your automation
2021 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, we're Max and Byran from MUREX Robotics, a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire. We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology! It is only 6.9 dollars (actually!) from JLCPCB :) I hope you like it. You can find us at [email protected] and [email protected] as well if you have any questions. We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere (we have <25 units of stock), probably for $10+shipping. Let us know if you're interested in more! Board files for everything we make is here:…
2024 · docs.murexrobotics.com · its alternatives →
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6DOF Intelligent Wireless Control Manipulator
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hexbot Robot Arm▲150All-in-one robot arm that turns your desktop into a workshop
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Makerarm▲126The first robotic arm that makes anything, anywhere
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Six-axis collaborative robot
2021 · elephantrobotics.com · 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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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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Smaller, better, and cheaper: $20
2014 · raspberrypi.org · its alternatives →
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Makerarm▲5The first robotic arm that makes anything, anywhere
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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DollarAI.Store▲119Use the exact tool you need, exactly when you need it for $1
2024 · mv-macht-schlau.de · its alternatives →
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Full featured, low code, license fee free RPA platform!
2021 · kronnika.io · its alternatives →
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Building and deploying navigation algorithms on a home robot vacuum cleaner
Apr 2026 · indraneelpatil.github.io · its alternatives →
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The world's smartest standing desk, now $1,200 cheaper
2015 · stirworks.com · its alternatives →
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OpenAI Gym environments for an open-source quadruped robot (SpotMicro) - nicrusso7/rex-gym
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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