OpenArm: Open-Source 7-DOF Humanoid Arm for Physical AI Research
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-03
Team enactic has open-sourced OpenArm, a 7-DOF humanoid arm on GitHub designed for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments.
Key features include:
- Safe Interaction: Built with high backdrivability and compliance for safe human-robot interaction.
- Global Reproducibility: Introduces the OpenArm Cell, a standardized environment with unified background, lighting, and camera placement, enabling researchers worldwide to reproduce physical AI experiments under consistent evaluation conditions.
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