OpenManipulator-X

OpenManipulator-X is an open-source robotic arm platform from ROBOTIS. It combines open hardware, ROS-compatible software and modular Dynamixel actuators, making it a compact manipulator for education, research, prototyping and physical-AI experimentation.

Market context

Common research manipulator stack integrated with TurtleBot3 and standalone teaching labs.

Facts

Website: https://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/platform/openmanipulator_x/overview/
HQ: Seoul, South Korea
Segment: Development Platform

Events

2017-09-21 - Demonstration - ROBOTIS introduces OpenMANIPULATOR at ROSCon 2017 - ROBOTIS introduced OpenMANIPULATOR at ROSCon 2017 on September 21, 2017. ROBOTIS presented OpenMANIPULATOR as a full open robot platform. The milestone connected OpenMANIPULATOR-X to the ROS developer ecosystem.

Articles

2026-04-20 - ROBOTIS and the Move Up the Stack - An actuator company with deep roots in open robotics is now expressing its stack as a humanoid system. - Korthos: /research/robotis-and-the-move-up-the-stack

OpenManipulator-X canonical Korthos profile