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LeRobot
🤗 LeRobot: Making AI for Robotics more accessible with end-to-end learning
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About LeRobot
LeRobot is an open-source framework from Hugging Face for training robotic systems using end-to-end learning. It provides pre-built models, datasets, and training pipelines to reduce the barrier to entry for robotics AI development. The framework handles data collection, model training, and deployment workflows in Python.
Best for
Researchers and engineers building robot learning systems who want accessible tooling and pre-trained baselines.
Use cases
- Training vision-based robot control policies from demonstration data
- Benchmarking robotic learning approaches across standardized tasks
- Prototyping robot behaviors without building training infrastructure from scratch
Notes
24,565 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- Backed by Hugging Face with active community support and 24k+ GitHub stars
- End-to-end learning approach reduces manual feature engineering for robot tasks
- Includes pre-trained models and public datasets to accelerate experimentation
Cons
- Requires Python expertise and familiarity with PyTorch or similar frameworks
- Limited to simulation or controlled environments for initial training
- Real-world deployment still requires domain-specific hardware integration and safety validation
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 0.7.0 (released 5 Nov 2026)
- Days since the last commit
- 0
- GitHub forks
- 6,027
- GitHub stars
- 28,719
- Days to a first reply on issues
- 0.5
- Open issues
- 268
- Releases in the last 90 days
- 1
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Stars and usage
How LeRobot is growing
24,565 to 28,719
Health and security
Is LeRobot looked after, and what do its setup files show
Health score
91 out of 100
| Part | Points | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Recent activity | 30 of 30 | Last push 0 days ago |
| Releases | 7.5 of 15 | 1 release in 90 days |
| Issue replies | 20 of 20 | First reply in 0.5 days (median) |
| Maintainer | 15 of 15 | Owned by an organisation |
| Official source | Not counted | MCP servers only |
Alternatives
Alternatives to LeRobot
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| OctoAlternative to this | Open source | Named in the listing | Not dated |
| OpenPIAlternative to this | Open source | Named in the listing | Not dated |
| SmolVLAAlternative to this | Open source | Named in the listing | Not dated |
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Sources
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Changelog
What changed
Released 0.7.0
Released 0.6.1
Released 0.6.0
Released 0.5.1
Released 0.5.0
Released 0.4.4
Released 0.4.3
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Released 0.4.1
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Released 0.3.3
Open-source & AI alternatives
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Octo
Community
Octo is a transformer-based robot policy trained on a diverse mix of 800k robot trajectories.
OpenPI
Community
Open-source VLA models from Physical Intelligence, including π₀ and π₀.5 — flow-based vision-language-action models pretrained on large-scale robot data with fine-tuning support.
SmolVLA
Community
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Pairs with
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DiVLA
Community
A continuous diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action model that integrates diffusion policies into autoregressive VLMs for robust and precise continuous robotic control.
OpenVLA
Community
OpenVLA: An open-source vision-language-action model for robotic manipulation.
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