Robotics & physical AI AI agent tools
10 robotics & physical AI tools in the AgentScout directory, each with a link-checked listing. Embodied agents, ROS and simulation stacks, and hardware-control tools that turn a language goal into motion on a robot or a simulated world.
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There are 10 robotics & physical AI tools: 7 open source, 2 free or freemium, 1 pricing on the maker's site.
Quick answer: the top picks on this list, ranked by GitHub stars and listing maturity, are RPent, ROS MCP Server and IoT DC3, out of 10 tools listed below. At a glance: 7 open-source, 9 free or freemium and 7 local or self-hosted across 10 link-checked tools (last verified ).
Verified on : every tool link on this page was checked by our daily link check. No paid placements.
Ranked comparison (top 10)
| # | Tool | Pricing | Best for | Open source | Runs locally | GitHub stars |
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| 1 |  RPent | Open source | robotics & physical AI | Yes | Self-hosted | 1,640 |
| 2 |  ROS MCP Server | Open source | connect tools via MCP | Yes | Self-hosted | 1,507 |
| 3 |  IoT DC3 | Open source | automate workflows | Yes | Self-hosted | 1,268 |
| 4 |  Metabot | Open source + cloud | robotics & physical AI | Yes | Self-hosted | 998 |
| 5 |  RP1 | Open source | robotics & physical AI | Yes | Self-hosted | 984 |
| 6 |  Viam | Open source + cloud | robotics & physical AI | Yes | Self-hosted | 178 |
| 7 |  Telekinesis Agentic Skill Library | Freemium | write code, build an agent | No | 86 | |
| 8 |  Bubbaloop | Open source | connect tools via MCP | Yes | Self-hosted | 30 |
| 9 |  Ascendo | See site | robotics & physical AI | No | ||
| 10 |  RobotTraining.jobs | Freemium | connect tools via MCP, research the web | No |
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Ascendo
Ascendo deploys specialized physical AI agents for field-service teams. It connects an agent to robots, simulation, or physical-world control.
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RPent
RPent is agentic infrastructure for the physical world, connecting language agents to embodied systems
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RP1
RP1 is an open-source full-stack platform for agentic humanoid robots. It connects an agent to robots, simulation, or physical-world control.
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IoT DC3
IoT DC3 is an open-source industrial IoT runtime for physical AI, connecting devices to agent workflows
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Metabot
Metabot is XVI Robotics' infrastructure for supervised, self-improving agent organizations that run physical and software agents together.
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Viam
Software platform for building and operating robots and smart machines.
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ROS MCP Server
Connects Claude and other models to ROS robots.
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Telekinesis Agentic Skill Library
Python library of 250+ perception, vision and robotics skills plus a Physical AI agent that turns natural-language prompts into reviewable robot code.
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Bubbaloop
Kornia's open-source single-binary agent runtime with an MCP server that orchestrates cameras, sensors and robots on Jetson, Raspberry Pi or Linux through chat.
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RobotTraining.jobs
Free job board and remote MCP server for paid robot-training work (teleoperation, demonstration recording, AV and drone test operations): AI assistants can search open roles, hourly pay and hiring data with no key or account.
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Top robotics & physical AI repos on GitHub (8)
| Repo | GitHub stars | Licence | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|
| RPent ↗ | 1,640 | — | — |
| ROS MCP Server ↗ | 1,507 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-09-23 |
| IoT DC3 ↗ | 1,268 | — | — |
| Metabot ↗ | 998 | — | — |
| RP1 ↗ | 984 | — | — |
| Viam ↗ | 178 | GNU AGPL v3.0 | 2026-10-27 |
| Telekinesis Agentic Skill Library ↗ | 86 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-10-23 |
| Bubbaloop ↗ | 30 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-05-21 |
8 repos. Stars and licence come from each repo, checked when the listing was last verified.
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