Tools and Directories

European Commission portal listing research jobs and fellowships, including robotics.

General job search filtered to robotics roles across companies worldwide.

Robotics innovation hub listing member company job openings, events and internships.

Official careers site including NVIDIA's robotics and Isaac platform teams.

Long-running academic mailing list where robotics PhD, postdoc and faculty jobs are posted.

Community forum category where robotics companies post open engineering roles.

Careers page for TRI's robotics research groups, including internship listings.

Startup job board with filterable robotics engineering roles and equity details.

Community job board highlighting robotics openings, often at inclusive employers.

Careers page for Alphabet's moonshot lab, which has hosted several robotics projects.

Daily feed of new robotics research preprints on arXiv.

Curated papers and code for embodied AI research, a fast-growing robot learning area.

A big list of free and open tools used across robotics engineering workflows.

List of open source robot projects you can build or study, from arms to mobile bases.

Curated list of ROS 2 tools, tutorials, packages, and learning material.

Visual graph tool for exploring related robotics research papers from one seed paper.

Browse thousands of open source robotics repositories tagged by topic on GitHub.

Pretrained robot policy and vision-language-action models shared by the community.

IEEE's guide to real robots with specs, videos and side-by-side comparisons.

International Federation of Robotics site with market stats and industry reports.

Robotics research papers linked directly to their open source code implementations.

New robotics products and startups launching, browsable by upvotes and comments.

Search engine listing thousands of ROS and ROS2 software packages.

The main ROS documentation wiki with tutorials, package pages and community info.

AI-powered search engine for robotics research papers with citation graphs.

Encyclopedia list of notable real-world robots organized by type and era.

Free open source precision agriculture GPS guidance and autosteer software for tractors.

Open source autopilot software supporting copters, planes, rovers and boats.

ArduPilot documentation for building and programming autonomous ground rovers.

Open source autopilot firmware for underwater ROVs, part of the ArduPilot family.

Popular open source flight controller firmware for FPV racing and freestyle drones.

Tiny open source quadcopter platform popular for research and education.

Marine robotics components: thrusters, ROVs, sensors and open electronics.

Open source companion computer OS for underwater and marine robots from Blue Robotics.

Umbrella foundation hosting open source drone software projects like PX4 and MAVLink.

Modular open software field robotics platform for agricultural robot developers.

Open source CNC farming robot with full build plans and software.

Community hub of documented DIY robot builds, including drones and field robots.

Lightweight open messaging protocol most drone autopilots use to talk to ground stations.

Free toolkit for turning drone photos into maps and 3D models.

Free open source hardware and software project for unmanned aerial vehicles.

Open source flight control software used in drones, VTOL and ground vehicles.

Free ground control station app for planning and flying PX4 and ArduPilot drones.

Nonprofit network supporting drone and robotics use for humanitarian and development work.

Free student version of Ansys engineering simulation tools for structural and fluid analysis.

Free educational licenses for Autodesk's CAD and simulation software suite.

Free open source 3D modeling and rendering tool, also used for robot simulation assets.

Free browser-based circuit simulator great for learning electronics basics.

Fully free and open source parametric 3D CAD modeler for mechanical design.

Free FreeCAD extension for simulating robot arm kinematics and trajectories.