Projects
Origin stories and ongoing histories of individual open-source robotics projects — how they started, what they changed, and where they're headed. A narrower, faster-moving companion to History's decades-spanning industry sweep.
Amazing Hand
An 8-DOF, fully 3D-printed robot hand from Pollen Robotics with every actuator self-contained inside it, costing under €200 — a simplified, open-source take on academic dexterous-hand research.
Open Duck Mini
A sub-$400, 3D-printable bipedal robot that learns to walk via reinforcement learning, built by a Pollen Robotics engineer as a Disney BDX-droid-inspired side project — and later chosen to demo on-device AI at Google I/O.
The History of LeRobot
From an ex-Tesla engineer's PyTorch library to a $100 robot arm, a 25,000-star open-source project, and 0.6.0's world models — how Hugging Face's LeRobot became a reference stack for AI-driven robot learning.