Directory

The robotics web, organized

A hand-picked directory of the sites worth bookmarking — by category. Suggest a site via Submit a Tip.

News & Media

IEEE Spectrum Robotics Deep editorial coverage from the IEEE spectrum.ieee.org The Robot Report Robotics business & engineering news therobotreport.com Robotics 24/7 Supply chain & robotics applications robotics247.com Robohub Community news from the research world robohub.org TechCrunch Robotics Startup & funding coverage techcrunch.com Automated Warehouse Warehouse & logistics automation automatedwarehouseonline.com DroneDJ Drone industry news dronedj.com

Humanoid Companies

Boston Dynamics Atlas, Spot & Stretch bostondynamics.com Figure General-purpose humanoids figure.ai Agility Robotics Digit — warehouse humanoid agilityrobotics.com Apptronik Apollo humanoid apptronik.com Unitree Humanoids & quadrupeds unitree.com 1X Technologies Home humanoids 1x.tech Sanctuary AI Dexterous general-purpose robots sanctuary.ai Tesla AI Optimus humanoid program tesla.com

Industrial & Automation

ABB Robotics Industrial arms & automation new.abb.com FANUC Industrial robots & CNC fanucamerica.com KUKA Industrial robots & systems kuka.com Yaskawa Motoman Industrial robotic arms motoman.com Universal Robots Collaborative robot arms universal-robots.com A3 — Association for Advancing Automation Industry association & statistics automate.org

Research Labs & Institutes

MIT CSAIL Computer science & AI lab csail.mit.edu CMU Robotics Institute The original robotics department ri.cmu.edu Stanford Robotics Stanford robotics research robotics.stanford.edu Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Robot learning research bair.berkeley.edu ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab Legged robots & autonomy rsl.ethz.ch Toyota Research Institute Robotics & automated driving R&D tri.global Google DeepMind Robot learning & foundation models deepmind.google NASA JPL Robotics Space & planetary robotics www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov arXiv cs.RO Latest robotics preprints arxiv.org

Simulators & Dev Tools

ROS The Robot Operating System ros.org Gazebo Open-source robot simulator gazebosim.org NVIDIA Isaac Sim GPU-accelerated simulation developer.nvidia.com MuJoCo Physics engine for robot learning mujoco.org PyBullet Python physics simulation pybullet.org Webots Open-source desktop simulator cyberbotics.com Foxglove Robotics data visualization foxglove.dev Hugging Face LeRobot Open robot-learning models & datasets huggingface.co

Learning & Courses

Modern Robotics (Northwestern) The classic mechanics course + free book modernrobotics.northwestern.edu MIT OpenCourseWare Free robotics course materials ocw.mit.edu The Construct Hands-on ROS training theconstruct.ai Articulated Robotics Build a ROS robot from scratch articulatedrobotics.xyz Robotics Stack Exchange Q&A for robotics developers robotics.stackexchange.com

Kits & Hardware

RobotShop The robot marketplace robotshop.com SparkFun Sensors, boards & kits sparkfun.com Adafruit Electronics & learning guides adafruit.com Pololu Motors, drivers & robot parts pololu.com DFRobot Maker & education robotics dfrobot.com Hiwonder Educational robot kits & arms hiwonder.com

Competitions

FIRST Robotics K-12 robotics competitions firstinspires.org RoboCup Robot soccer & rescue leagues robocup.org VEX Robotics Classroom & competition robotics vexrobotics.com RoboMaster DJI's university robot combat league robomaster.com BattleBots Televised combat robotics battlebots.com

Conferences

ICRA IEEE Int’l Conference on Robotics & Automation ieee-ras.org IROS Int’l Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems ieee-ras.org RSS Robotics: Science and Systems roboticsconference.org Automate North America’s largest automation show automateshow.com CES Where consumer robots debut ces.tech

Communities & Forums

r/robotics Reddit's robotics community reddit.com ROS Discourse Official ROS community forum discourse.ros.org Hackaday Robots Robot builds & hacks hackaday.com Robotics Worldwide Academic mailing list robotics-worldwide.org

Frequently asked questions

What are the best robotics websites?

It depends what you need — IEEE Spectrum and The Robot Report for news, arXiv cs.RO and lab sites for research, ROS.org and Gazebo for development, RobotShop and SparkFun for parts, and r/robotics or ROS Discourse for community. This directory groups the sites worth bookmarking by category.

Which companies make humanoid robots?

The most prominent humanoid makers today include Boston Dynamics (Atlas), Figure, Tesla (Optimus), Agility Robotics (Digit), Apptronik (Apollo), Unitree, 1X, and Sanctuary AI — all linked in the Humanoid Companies section above.

How do I get my website listed in this directory?

Suggest it through our Submit a Tip page. We curate by usefulness to the robotics community, not pay-to-list, so genuinely helpful robotics sites are welcome.