Open-source mobile manipulators compared
A factual comparison of open-source mobile manipulators used for research, teleoperation and imitation-learning data. Each figure comes from the project's own pages or a public paper, linked in the last column. Last checked on 12 November 2026.
Side by side
| Platform | Made by | Arms | Base and compute | Lift | Software | Published cost | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAMRobot 2.0 | Botshare, Berlin | Two OpenArm 2.0 arms, or your own arms on the OpenArm-Ready Platform | Wheeled base, two hub motors, Jetson Orin NX 8 GB, RPLIDAR S3, Orbbec Gemini 336L | 350 mm (DOLD Hexalift V4), shoulder height 1.00 to 1.35 m | ROS 2, ros2_control, MoveIt 2, Gazebo | List prices from EUR 5,500 (DIY base kit) to EUR 23,000 (Premium Embodied AI Kit), excl. VAT; founder prices by date | Pre-order page, GitHub |
| Mobile ALOHA | Stanford University (Z. Fu, T. Z. Zhao, C. Finn), CoRL 2024 | Two follower arms with leader arms for whole-body teleoperation | Wheeled base, onboard laptop with RTX 3070 Ti | Not stated in our sources | Not stated in our sources | About USD 32,000 for the full system | VentureBeat, arXiv 2603.09051, Table I |
| TidyBot++ | Princeton University and Stanford University, CoRL 2024 | One arm; BOM versions for Kinova Gen3, Franka and ARX5 | Holonomic base with powered casters | Not stated in our sources | Not stated in our sources | Mobile base USD 5,206 to 6,273 in the published BOM, arm not included | TidyBot++ BOM, arXiv 2412.10447 |
| XLeRobot | G. Wang and contributors, open-source project, 2025 | Two low-cost SO-100 / SO-101 type arms, built on LeRobot | Wheeled base; external PC in the reference build | Not stated in our sources | LeRobot | About USD 660 in parts | GitHub, Documentation |
| Mobile OpenArm X1 | NVatom, co-developed with OpenArm | OpenArm arm and gripper setup, 16 DoF | 4WD omnidirectional base with LiDAR, 360 degree waist rotation | Not stated in our sources | ROS 2 | Hardware cost USD 9,000 for the Education Edition | ROS Discourse announcement |
Costs are as published by each project: some are parts or bill-of-materials costs, others are system or sale prices, so they are not directly comparable. "Not stated in our sources" means we did not find the figure in the linked sources. If a figure is wrong or out of date, email info@botshare.ai and we will correct it.
About OpenAMRobot
OpenAMRobot is an open-source mobile manipulator by Botshare: a mobile base, a 350 mm lift and two OpenArm 2.0 arms on ROS 2, sold as a DIY kit or assembled and bench-tested in Berlin. Designs, firmware and software are published under MIT, CERN-OHL-P-2.0 and CC BY 4.0. Botshare Ltd is registered in Limassol, Cyprus, has its workshop in Berlin and is a member of NVIDIA Inception. It is not related to BOTSHARE, the robot leasing platform in China.
Open-source mobile manipulators compared
A factual comparison of open-source mobile manipulators used for research, teleoperation and imitation-learning data. Each figure comes from the project's own pages or a public paper, linked in the last column. Last checked on 12 November 2026.
Side by side
| Platform | Made by | Arms | Base and compute | Lift | Software | Published cost | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAMRobot 2.0 | Botshare, Berlin | Two OpenArm 2.0 arms, or your own arms on the OpenArm-Ready Platform | Wheeled base, two hub motors, Jetson Orin NX 8 GB, RPLIDAR S3, Orbbec Gemini 336L | 350 mm (DOLD Hexalift V4), shoulder height 1.00 to 1.35 m | ROS 2, ros2_control, MoveIt 2, Gazebo | List prices from EUR 5,500 (DIY base kit) to EUR 23,000 (Premium Embodied AI Kit), excl. VAT; founder prices by date | Pre-order page, GitHub |
| Mobile ALOHA | Stanford University (Z. Fu, T. Z. Zhao, C. Finn), CoRL 2024 | Two follower arms with leader arms for whole-body teleoperation | Wheeled base, onboard laptop with RTX 3070 Ti | Not stated in our sources | Not stated in our sources | About USD 32,000 for the full system | VentureBeat, arXiv 2603.09051, Table I |
| TidyBot++ | Princeton University and Stanford University, CoRL 2024 | One arm; BOM versions for Kinova Gen3, Franka and ARX5 | Holonomic base with powered casters | Not stated in our sources | Not stated in our sources | Mobile base USD 5,206 to 6,273 in the published BOM, arm not included | TidyBot++ BOM, arXiv 2412.10447 |
| XLeRobot | G. Wang and contributors, open-source project, 2025 | Two low-cost SO-100 / SO-101 type arms, built on LeRobot | Wheeled base; external PC in the reference build | Not stated in our sources | LeRobot | About USD 660 in parts | GitHub, Documentation |
| Mobile OpenArm X1 | NVatom, co-developed with OpenArm | OpenArm arm and gripper setup, 16 DoF | 4WD omnidirectional base with LiDAR, 360 degree waist rotation | Not stated in our sources | ROS 2 | Hardware cost USD 9,000 for the Education Edition | ROS Discourse announcement |
Costs are as published by each project: some are parts or bill-of-materials costs, others are system or sale prices, so they are not directly comparable. "Not stated in our sources" means we did not find the figure in the linked sources. If a figure is wrong or out of date, email info@botshare.ai and we will correct it.
About OpenAMRobot
OpenAMRobot is an open-source mobile manipulator by Botshare: a mobile base, a 350 mm lift and two OpenArm 2.0 arms on ROS 2, sold as a DIY kit or assembled and bench-tested in Berlin. Designs, firmware and software are published under MIT, CERN-OHL-P-2.0 and CC BY 4.0. Botshare Ltd is registered in Limassol, Cyprus, has its workshop in Berlin and is a member of NVIDIA Inception. It is not related to BOTSHARE, the robot leasing platform in China.