THE COLLECTION / MOBILE ROBOTS
Wheeled bases and mobile manipulators for navigation, mapping and home-robot research.
Mobile robotLi Yiteng / Wu Zhiyong8 GitHub stars, snapshot Oct 30, 2026
3D-printed · 16 actuators
A 3D-printed dual-arm mobile robot with a motorized vertical lift, built for embodied AI research and real-world manipulation.
Mobile robotk1000dai
3D-printed · actuators not documented
A dual-arm mobile manipulator with a lift and gripper, designed for robotics research in manipulation and mobile robotics.
Mobile robotNRdrgz
3D-printed · 4 actuators
A mecanum-wheel mobile robot with printable parts for manual control and autonomous navigation.
Mobile robotKORokoro.rOBOt project
3D-printed · actuators not documented
A palm-sized robot covered by a capsule, with a simple structure and parts assembled by fitting them together.
Mobile robotNVIDIA
3D-printed · actuators not documented
A mobile robot with 3D-printable CAD files, a bill of materials and assembly instructions.
Mobile robotSIGRobotics-UIUC1,497 GitHub stars, snapshot Oct 30, 2026
3D-printed · actuators not documented
A mobile manipulator with a three-wheel omni-drive base, an SO-ARM101 arm, and workspace and wrist RGB cameras.
Mobile robotGioSunrider
3D-printed · actuators not documented
An omnidirectional robot for entertainment, with PETG printed parts and listed motor, controller, and wheel components.
Mobile robotOpenPodcar50 GitHub stars, snapshot Oct 30, 2026
Not documented · actuators not documented
A scooter-based vehicle platform for autonomous-vehicle research, with hardware build instructions, Arduino speed control and ROS vehicle drivers.
Side by side
The maker’s own figures, with their scope. Open parts count the six parts we check on every project.
| Robot | Maker’s cost | Actuators | Build | Open parts | Can you sell it? | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlohaMiniLi Yiteng / Wu Zhiyong | About $600total, self-print | 16 | 3D-printed | 5 of 6 | Yes | 8 |
| AlohaScorpionk1000dai | Not documented | Not documented | 3D-printed | 2 of 6 | Yes | Not documented |
| Just1NRdrgz | $250complete build | 4 | 3D-printed | 3 of 6 | Yes | Not documented |
| KOROBO (2.1 Gen)KORokoro.rOBOt project | Not documented | Not documented | 3D-printed | 4 of 6 | Yes, with credit | Not documented |
| KayaNVIDIA | Not documented | Not documented | 3D-printed | 3 of 6 | Yes | Not documented |
| LeKiwiSIGRobotics-UIUC | $4995V version | Not documented | 3D-printed | 4 of 6 | Yes | 1,497 |
| OmniRobotGioSunrider | Not documented | Not documented | 3D-printed | 4 of 6 | Yes, with credit | Not documented |
| OpenPodcarOpenPodcar | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | 6 of 6 | Yes, with credit | 50 |
Before you build
Check for ROS 2 navigation support, the sensors it expects and published launch files.
Look at the documented drive, battery and what the base can carry before adding an arm.
Mobile robots depend on many packages. Recent activity on the upstream project matters.
Costs are the maker’s documented figures, with their original scope. Stars are recorded GitHub snapshots, never a quality score. Search the whole collection
