Asimov Is An Open Source Humanoid Robot For The Rest Of Us

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Asimov Is An Open Source Humanoid Robot For The Rest Of Us

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by: Tyler August

May 16, 2026

Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for thinking you need pockets as deep as a car company to get into humanoid robotics — and maybe that was true once, but now Asimov v1 is here. It doesn’t have a positronic brain, and you’ll have to code in the Three Laws for yourself, but at least you have the freedom to, because Asimov is open source. No word on if this robot can write a symphony — though we’ve seen software that can — and its 5 kg personal best for squats and 18 kg single-arm lat raises aren’t going to impress the bros at the gym. But hey, at least now you have someone to shake your chair for sim gaming. If you’re wondering what the deal with these androids is, well, so were we.

4 thoughts on “Asimov Is An Open Source Humanoid Robot For The Rest Of Us”

1. Just what we need. A bunch of easy to hack foreign robots that are humanoid shaped and left powered on all day waiting for there owners instruction.

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Reply 2. $15K BOM is more than buy it now free shipping ready to use Unitree G1

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1. These guys for 13k a pop?

Report comment;) It’s not exactly cheap: the kit version comes with a target price of $15,000 USD, but they do provide the Bill of Materials on the GitHub repository so you can try and hunt down some deals. Still, compared to the millions poured into these sorts of robots in the early days, we have to consider it accessible. With 25 total degrees of freedom, you’ll have to source a lot of actuators, but at least the onboard compute will be easy to get. Rather than begging CERN for spare positrons, you’ only need a Raspberry 5 and a Radaxa CM5.