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Closed but seeded the entire VLA category."},{"id":"openvla","name":"OpenVLA","org":"Stanford / Berkeley / Toyota Research","category":"foundation_model","parameters":"7B","released":"2024-06","license":"MIT","paperUrl":"https://openvla.github.io","codeUrl":"https://github.com/openvla/openvla","demoUrl":"https://huggingface.co/openvla/openvla-7b","notes":"Open replication of RT-2 trained on Open X-Embodiment. The reference open VLA before pi-0; still widely fine-tuned for academic robotics work."},{"id":"octo","name":"Octo","org":"Berkeley AI Research","category":"foundation_model","parameters":"93M","released":"2024-05","license":"MIT","paperUrl":"https://octo-models.github.io","codeUrl":"https://github.com/octo-models/octo","demoUrl":null,"notes":"Small generalist transformer policy (93M and 27M variants) trained on 800K Open X-Embodiment trajectories. 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First commercial humanoid foundation model in production."},{"id":"figure-02","name":"Figure 02","org":"Figure AI","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2024-08","license":"commercial","paperUrl":"https://www.figure.ai/news/introducing-figure-02","codeUrl":null,"demoUrl":"https://www.figure.ai","notes":"5'6\", 70kg humanoid with onboard NVIDIA compute. Shipping in BMW and other industrial pilots. Helix VLA runs locally on the robot."},{"id":"1x-neo","name":"1X NEO","org":"1X Technologies","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2025-10","license":"commercial (consumer)","paperUrl":"https://www.1x.tech/neo","codeUrl":null,"demoUrl":"https://www.1x.tech","notes":"First humanoid pitched as a household consumer product. Soft, lightweight (30kg) with tendon-driven joints for safety around people. Pre-orders opened late 2025."},{"id":"tesla-optimus-gen3","name":"Optimus Gen 3","org":"Tesla","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2025-10","license":"commercial","paperUrl":"https://www.tesla.com/AI","codeUrl":null,"demoUrl":"https://www.tesla.com/AI","notes":"Third-generation Tesla humanoid with redesigned hand (22 DoF). Tesla manufacturing factory deployment claimed for 2026, external sales 2027."},{"id":"apptronik-apollo","name":"Apollo","org":"Apptronik","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2024-08","license":"commercial","paperUrl":"https://apptronik.com/apollo","codeUrl":null,"demoUrl":"https://apptronik.com","notes":"Industrial humanoid pilots with Mercedes and GXO logistics. Built on Apptronik's prior Astra arm work. NASA partnership."},{"id":"unitree-g1","name":"Unitree G1","org":"Unitree","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2024-05","license":"commercial","paperUrl":"https://www.unitree.com/g1","codeUrl":"https://github.com/unitreerobotics","demoUrl":"https://www.unitree.com/g1","notes":"Lowest-priced commercially available humanoid (entry around $16K). Popular for academic research and home tinkering. SDK and Python bindings published."},{"id":"unitree-h1","name":"Unitree H1","org":"Unitree","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2023-12","license":"commercial","paperUrl":"https://www.unitree.com/h1","codeUrl":"https://github.com/unitreerobotics","demoUrl":"https://www.unitree.com/h1","notes":"Larger sibling to G1. Holds the unofficial humanoid sprint record (3.3 m/s). Common research platform for whole-body control papers."},{"id":"boston-dynamics-atlas-electric","name":"Atlas (Electric)","org":"Boston Dynamics","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2024-04","license":"commercial (research / pilot)","paperUrl":"https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/","codeUrl":null,"demoUrl":"https://bostondynamics.com/atlas/","notes":"All-electric Atlas successor to the hydraulic platform. Hyundai pilots in automotive manufacturing. Range of motion exceeds human anatomy."},{"id":"agility-digit","name":"Digit","org":"Agility Robotics","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2023-09","license":"commercial","paperUrl":"https://agilityrobotics.com/products/digit","codeUrl":null,"demoUrl":"https://agilityrobotics.com","notes":"Bipedal humanoid optimized for warehouse case-handling. RaaS pricing with Amazon and GXO deployments. Bird-leg morphology (knees backward) for energy efficiency."},{"id":"sanctuary-phoenix","name":"Phoenix","org":"Sanctuary AI","category":"humanoid","parameters":null,"released":"2023-05","license":"commercial","paperUrl":"https://www.sanctuary.ai/phoenix","codeUrl":null,"demoUrl":"https://www.sanctuary.ai","notes":"Hydraulic-driven hands with 21 DoF per hand, the highest dexterity in any commercial humanoid. Now part of Apptronik post-2025 acquisition."},{"id":"open-x-embodiment","name":"Open X-Embodiment","org":"Google DeepMind + 21 institutions","category":"dataset","parameters":null,"released":"2023-10","license":"CC-BY-4.0","paperUrl":"https://robotics-transformer-x.github.io","codeUrl":"https://github.com/google-deepmind/open_x_embodiment","demoUrl":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/jxu124/OpenX-Embodiment","notes":"Standardized cross-embodiment dataset spanning 22 robot embodiments and 1M+ trajectories. The pretraining substrate behind Octo, OpenVLA, and many followups."},{"id":"droid","name":"DROID","org":"Stanford / Berkeley / Toyota Research / Google","category":"dataset","parameters":null,"released":"2024-03","license":"CC-BY-4.0","paperUrl":"https://droid-dataset.github.io","codeUrl":"https://github.com/droid-dataset/droid","demoUrl":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/KarlP/droid","notes":"76K teleoperated trajectories across 564 scenes and 86 tasks, all on Franka arms. Largest single-embodiment manipulation dataset. Used as the high-quality slice in pi-0 training."},{"id":"agibot-world","name":"AgiBot World","org":"AgiBot","category":"dataset","parameters":null,"released":"2024-12","license":"CC-BY-NC-4.0","paperUrl":"https://agibot-world.com","codeUrl":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/agibot-world/AgiBotWorld-Alpha","demoUrl":"https://agibot-world.com","notes":"Million-trajectory dataset on AgiBot G1 humanoid. 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Foundational for skill generalization research; included in Open X-Embodiment."},{"id":"isaac-lab","name":"Isaac Lab","org":"NVIDIA","category":"simulator","parameters":null,"released":"2024-03","license":"BSD-3-Clause","paperUrl":"https://isaac-sim.github.io/IsaacLab/","codeUrl":"https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacLab","demoUrl":"https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac-sim","notes":"GPU-accelerated robot learning framework on Isaac Sim. Supersedes Isaac Gym. Used for sim-to-real RL training of locomotion and manipulation policies."},{"id":"mujoco-playground","name":"MuJoCo Playground","org":"Google DeepMind","category":"simulator","parameters":null,"released":"2025-01","license":"Apache-2.0","paperUrl":"https://playground.mujoco.org","codeUrl":"https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco_playground","demoUrl":"https://playground.mujoco.org","notes":"JAX-based MuJoCo training suite with battery-included locomotion and manipulation environments. Designed for massively parallel sim-to-real RL."},{"id":"genesis","name":"Genesis","org":"Genesis Embodied AI","category":"simulator","parameters":null,"released":"2024-12","license":"Apache-2.0","paperUrl":"https://genesis-embodied-ai.github.io","codeUrl":"https://github.com/Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis","demoUrl":"https://genesis-embodied-ai.github.io","notes":"Universal physics engine claiming 80M FPS on a single RTX 4090. Bundled generative pipeline auto-creates scenes from text. Open-sourced by a 19-lab collaboration."}]}