AgiBot · Open
Open-sourced robotics middleware/framework released alongside AgiBot X1.
Carnegie Mellon University · Open
CMU's humanoid research stack. Focus on dynamic locomotion and manipulation.
Figure AI · Proprietary
Proprietary. Powers Figure 03. Not open-source but worth tracking as the leading commercial VLA model.
Google DeepMind · Proprietary
Foundation model approach. Deployed on Boston Dynamics Atlas and Apptronik Apollo. Robot Park training facility opened June 2026.
Hugging Face · Apache-2.0
Most active open-source humanoid stack. End-to-end learning for real-world robotics. Hugging Face ecosystem integration.
NVIDIA · NVIDIA License
GR00T 1.7 released at GTC March 2026. Reference platform and training tools. Adopters: Agility, Boston Dynamics, NEURA, 1X, Mentee.
ODRI · BSD-3
Dynamic legged robots and humanoids. Open-source hardware designs and software stack. Popular in European research.
Tiangong / BHRIC · Open
Open-sourced VLM paired with Tiangong 3.0 hardware. Enables natural language task specification.
Physical Intelligence · Proprietary
Foundation model for robot control. Not hardware-specific. Raised significant funding. Model-only, no robot hardware.
Tiangong / BHRIC · Open
China's largest embodied-AI dataset. Released alongside Tiangong 3.0.
Open Robotics / Community · Apache-2.0
The underlying middleware powering most open-source humanoids. Humble Hawksbill LTS recommended.
Stanford University · MIT
Whole-body humanoid control from human data. Shadowing and imitation learning approach.
TRLC · TBA
Open-source dev kit for AI-native robotics. Claims data collection to autonomous policy deployment in under 1 day.
Unitree · Open
Open-sourced January 2026. Vision-Language-Action model for humanoid control.