enactic/openarm

A fully open-source humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments.

Hardware, IoT & roboticsMDX#bilateral-teleoperation#genesis#humanoid-robot#imitation-learning#machine-learning

4.1 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments. It ships CAD, URDF, a CAN library, ROS2, Isaac Lab and MuJoCo integrations, plus data collection tools.

Useful for

Build a bimanual setup for teleoperation and real-world data collection
Train an imitation learning policy in Isaac Lab or MuJoCo
Reproduce experiments in the standardized OpenArm Cell environment

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

15 stars so far today, about 21 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 4 per day, so that's 5.4× as much.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
Hacker News: “OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm” — 214 points, 5 days ago.
Recent forks include notable developers: @jaekwon (822 followers), @jeniferGoncalvesDaSilvaDev (331 followers), @millette (306 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 3,453
Stars in a day: 21
Forks: 374
Issues and pull requests: 559
Watchers: 50
Language: MDX
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: 1.1 · October 31, 2025
Created: September 29, 2024
Last push: September 14, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm214 points, September 13, 2026

Spotted in

September 18, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
September 17, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
September 16, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
September 15, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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