XLeRobot

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:27:30 +0800

Vector-Wangel/XLeRobot

XLeRobot 🤖

🚀 Bringing Embodied AI to Everyone - Cheaper Than an iPhone! 📱
💵 Starts from $660 cost and ⏰ <4hrs total assembly time!!

Built upon the giants: LeRobot, SO-100/SO-101, Lekiwi, Bambot

📰 News

2025-09-09: Developer Assembly kit ready for purchase in China. World-wide purchase link out in 2 days.
- Non-profit, only for more convenient accessiblity. I personally don’t earn any from this.
2025-09-09: Joined Embodied AI Home Robot Hackathon (Oct 25–26, Bay Area) held by SEEED x Nvidia x Huggingface as mentor! Register HERE.
2025-08-30: XLeRobot 0.3.0 Release with final outfit touch up and household chores showcase demos.
2025-07-30: Control XLeRobot in real life with keyboard/Xbox controller/Switch joycon in the wild anywhere. All bluetooth, no wifi needed and zero latency.
2025-07-08: Simulation with updated urdfs, control scripts (support Quest3 VR, keyboard, Xbox controller, switch joycon), support for new hardware and cameras, RL environment. Get started in 15 min.
2025-07-01: Documentation website out for more orgainized tutorials, demos and resources.
2025-06-13: XLeRobot 0.2.0 hardware setup, the 1st version fully capable for autonomous household tasks, starts from 660$.

💵 Total Cost 💵

[!NOTE] Cost excludes 3D printing, tools, shipping, and taxes.

Price (Buy all the parts yourself)	US	EU	CN
Basic (use your laptop, single RGB head cam)	~$660	~€680	~¥3999
↑ Stereo dual-eye RGB head cam	+$30	+€30	+¥199
+ RasberryPi	+$79	+€79	+¥399
↑ RealSense RGBD head cam	+$220	+€230	+¥1499

🚀 Get Started 🚀

[!NOTE] If you are totally new to programming, please spend at least a day to get yourself familiar with basic Python, Ubuntu and Github (with the help of Google and AI). At least you should know how to setup ubuntu system, git clone, pip install, use intepreters (VS Code, Cursor, Pycharm, etc.) and directly run commands in the terminals.

💵 Buy your parts: Bill of Materials
🖨️ Print your stuff: 3D printing
🔨 ~~Avengers~~: Assemble!
💻 Software: Get your robot moving!

Contribute

👋 Want to contribute to XLeRobot? Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance on how to get involved!

Main Contributors

Gaotian/Vector Wang
Zhuoyi Lu: RL sim2real deploy, teleop on real robot (Xbox, VR, Joycon)
Nicole Yue: Documentation website setup
Yuesong Wang: Mujoco simulation

This is just a small brick in the pyramid, made possible by LeRobot, SO-100, Lekiwi, and Bambot. Thanks to all the talented contributors behind these detailed and professional projects.

Looking forward to collaborating with anyone interested in contributing to this project!

About me

Gaotian/Vector Wang

I am a CS graduate student at Rice University RobotPi Lab, focusing on robust object manipulation, where we propse virtual cages and funnels and physics-aware world models to close the Sim2real gap and achieve robust manipulation under uncertainties. One of my papers, Caging in Time, has recently been accepted by International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

I built XLeRobot as a personal hobby to instantiate my research theory, also to provide a low-cost platform for people who are interested in robotics and embodied AI to work with.

Citation

If you want, you can cite this work with:

@misc{wang2025xlerobot,
    author = {Wang, Gaotian and Lu, Zhuoyi},
    title = {XLeRobot: A Practical Low-cost Household Dual-Arm Mobile Robot Design for General Manipulation},
    howpublished = "\url{https://github.com/Vector-Wangel/XLeRobot}",
    year = {2025}
}

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🪧 Disclaimer 🪧

[!NOTE] If you build, buy, or develop a XLeRobot based on this repo, you will be fully responsible for all the physical and mental damages it does to you or others.

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