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Robotics is advancing really fast lately, with AI inference, different controllers, software, and parts always changing. I wanted a place that supports many device types, Raspberry Pi, NVDA Jetson, Arduino, ESP32, hardware sources, and maximizes for printability. Instructables, Github, and Thingiverse are currently popular but aren't really focused on robotics, So I built orobot.io to try and make printing robots as standardized and accessible as possible. It uses a lot of Agent built content custom to each project, and every project is designed to be used by humans or your agent.Features:- Photos and Estimated Prices for all projects- Links back to source GitHub projects- LLMs write descriptions and tips on how to build- View + Download 3d printable STL files in browser- BOM purchase links are kept up to date with LLMs checking Amazon link health- LLMs write Javascript install and controller wrappers custom to each project so a single one-click install works across many frameworks and controller types- Public skill files, clis, and prompts let your agent do everything it needs to walk you through the complexity.It's still pretty new, so somethings are broken, and there's a lot more I want to build. But I'm very interested to have people try it out let me know if they want to use something like this and give me feedback about where they ran into problems so I can fix it. Thank you HN!

HN · launched May 14, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 33%) · 0 views

Niche: 3d printing software and utilities · 42 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Marketplace
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial A web catalog of 3D printable robots with STL viewers and bills of materials is completely vibe-codeable, but building an in-browser robotics IDE that remotely controls heterogeneous hardware microcontrollers (ESP32, Jetson, Pi) requires specialized robotics and embedded IoT infrastructure.

What it would actually take: The frontend can be built with Next.js, Three.js (for 3D STL viewing), and a blockly/Monaco code editor. The difficult engineering component is the real-time IoT communication layer (WebSockets, WebRTC, or MQTT brokers) paired with embedded firmware daemons and micro-ROS agents running on Raspberry Pi, Jetson, and ESP32 boards to safely execute code and stream sensor/camera data back to the browser without intolerable latency. This requires seasoned embedded software engineering and distributed IoT systems expertise.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Reachy Mini, Stack-chan, Android phone as robot face

Concerns raised: Servo library compatibility across controller boards, Deprecated ROS packages and firmware version conflicts, Scattered GitHub dependencies and documentation, Whether LLM agents catch deprecated libraries in generated code

Feature requests: Support for multiple AI services (Claude, GPT, OpenRouter, HuggingFace, Gemini), Edge voice AI models with API connection to large language models, Unified BOM normalization and one-click purchasing, Automated dependency resolution and deprecated package fixes

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 213 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #88 of 214 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.

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