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OpenMANIPULATOR

  • Software
  • Robot arms and industry
  • Framework

ROS 2 packages for the ROBOTIS OpenMANIPULATOR robot arm platform, providing interfaces and tools to control the robot, connect its sensors, and build physical AI applications.

Made by ROBOTIS, South Korea (checked on github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT (opens in a new tab)).

Source on GitHub: github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/open_manipulator (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit d31000d (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit d31000d (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Provides the official ROS 2 interfaces and tools for controlling the OpenMANIPULATOR robot.
  • Supports integration with the robot's sensors.
  • Intended for developing physical AI applications, including ones using the LeRobot framework.
  • Links to documentation for the OMY and OpenMANIPULATOR-X robots.
  • Points to Physical AI Tools, simulation models, tutorial videos, datasets and pre-trained models, and a Docker image.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit d31000d.

Getting started

Difficulty
Beginner

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
28 Sept 2026 on main
Latest release
5.1.3 (28 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Robots on Robotheca that use it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.