Top Python Robotics repositories on GitHub
Control, perception, simulation, and ROS-ecosystem code. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Python.
Ranked by stars across 1,258 Python repositories tagged robotics. Refreshed daily.
- 1commaai/openpilot★ 63,685 · ⑂ 11,375
openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.
- driver-assistance-systems
- robotics
- advanced-driver-assistance-systems
- 2AtsushiSakai/PythonRobotics★ 30,548 · ⑂ 7,408
Python sample codes and textbook for robotics algorithms.
- python
- robotics
- algorithm
- path-planning
- control
- animation
- 3harvard-edge/cs249r_book★ 28,365 · ⑂ 3,587
Machine Learning Systems: Foundations, Scaling, Agentic AI, and Physical AI (Vols I–IV) • Harvard CS249r | https://mlsysbook.ai
- artificial-intelligence
- cloud-ml
- computer-systems
- courseware
- deep-learning
- edge-machine-learning
- 4zauberzeug/nicegui★ 16,219 · ⑂ 950
Create web-based user interfaces with Python. The nice way.
- gui
- python
- webapp
- robotics
- toolkit
- frontend
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- 5earthtojake/text-to-cad★ 16,164 · ⑂ 1,674
A library of agent skills for CAD, CAE and CAM
- agents
- ai-agents
- cad
- text-to-cad
- mechanical-engineering
- robotics
- 6DLR-RM/stable-baselines3★ 13,823 · ⑂ 2,183
PyTorch version of Stable Baselines, reliable implementations of reinforcement learning algorithms.
- reinforcement-learning
- reinforcement-learning-algorithms
- machine-learning
- gym
- openai
- baselines
- 7kornia/kornia★ 11,367 · ⑂ 1,316
🐍 Geometric Computer Vision Library for Spatial AI
- computer-vision
- image-processing
- machine-learning
- pytorch
- deep-learning
- neural-network
- 8isaac-sim/IsaacLab★ 8,173 · ⑂ 3,903
Unified framework for robot learning with multi-physics/renderer support
- robot-learning
- robotics
- omniverse-kit-extension
- isaac-sim
- 9newton-physics/newton★ 5,659 · ⑂ 688
An open-source, GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp, specifically targeting roboticists and simulation researchers.
- physics-simulation
- robotics
- nvidia-warp
- newton-physics
- 10real-stanford/diffusion_policy★ 4,570 · ⑂ 839
[RSS 2023] Diffusion Policy Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion
- robotics
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- 11MichaelGrupp/evo★ 4,318 · ⑂ 797
Python package for the evaluation of odometry and SLAM
- slam
- odometry
- evaluation
- metrics
- robotics
- trajectory
- 12google-deepmind/mujoco_menagerie★ 4,087 · ⑂ 565
A collection of high-quality models for the MuJoCo physics engine, curated by Google DeepMind.
- mujoco
- robotics
- 13facebookresearch/map-anything★ 3,751 · ⑂ 283
MapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction
- 3d-reconstruction
- ai
- calibration
- depth-completion
- depth-estimation
- image-to-3d
- 14starVLA/starVLA★ 3,695 · ⑂ 484
StarVLA: A Lego-like Codebase for Vision-Language-Action Model Developing
- robotic-foundation-model
- robotics
- vision-language-action-model
- world-action-model
- 15MarkFzp/act-plus-plus★ 3,668 · ⑂ 648
Imitation learning algorithms with Co-training for Mobile ALOHA: ACT, Diffusion Policy, VINN
- imitation-learning
- robotics
- 16pytorch/rl★ 3,573 · ⑂ 487
A modular, primitive-first, python-first PyTorch library for Reinforcement Learning.
- ai
- control
- decision-making
- distributed-computing
- machine-learning
- marl
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- 17huangjunsen0406/py-xiaozhi★ 3,478 · ⑂ 736
Open-source AI assistant ecosystem with MCP integrations, multimodal workflows, IoT support, and cross-platform voice interaction.
- esp32
- esp32-s3
- xiaozhi-esp32
- mcp
- mcp-server
- python
- 18NVIDIA/skills★ 3,379 · ⑂ 403
Agent Skills for NVIDIA products — install into Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents to run Physical AI, robotics, simulation, CUDA, and RAG workflows end to end.
- agent-skills
- agentic-ai
- ai-agents
- claude-code
- codex
- coding-agents
- 19mani-skill/ManiSkill★ 3,341 · ⑂ 543
Manipulation Skill Framework, an open source GPU parallelized robotics simulator and benchmark
- reinforcement-learning
- robotics
- robot-manipulation
- embodied-ai
- robot-learning
- simulation
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