franka-stack
End-to-end open-source stack for real Franka robots: realtime control, GELLO/VR data collection, policy training, and guarded deployment.
Details
- External ID
- 1389363048
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- franka-stack
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21822956699974377
- Tags
- franka, gello, imitation-learning, openpi, real-time, robotics, ros2, vision-language-action
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- embodied AI and robotics platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source robotics stack for franka manipulator control
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Real-time robotics control stacks for Franka Emika Panda arms require real-time Linux kernels (PREEMPT_RT), low-level 1kHz joint impedance/torque controllers, and hardware VR/teleoperation device calibration.
What it would actually take: This stack requires a Linux environment configured with real-time PREEMPT_RT patches interfacing via libfranka (C++ 1kHz control loop), hardware driver integrations for GELLO/VR controllers, kinematics/dynamics solvers (Pinocchio), and an imitation learning pipeline (Diffusion Policy / ACT). Developing it requires robotics systems engineering, hardware-in-the-loop debugging, and deep expertise in robot dynamics and safety protocols.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #719 of 1017 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
- Phyzical_org · github · 2026-09-09 · 258 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- RoboJEV · github · 2026-09-20 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- jev-libero · github · 2026-09-19 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- ManiLoop · github · 2026-09-16 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- 🦾 Cortex AI — Large-Scale Real-World Data for General-Purpose Robotics · yc · 2025-11-08 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ULTRA · github · 2026-09-25 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Robocurve — Real-World Evaluations of Physical AI · yc · 2026-08-27 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Moving Atoms : World Models for Robots · yc · 2026-08-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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