RoboParty introduces RP1 humanoid as open research platform
RoboParty Robotics has introduced the RP1 humanoid as a fully open source platform for robotics research and embodied AI development, according to a LinkedIn post by Humanoid Robotics Technology. The industry account describes access to the robot’s hardware, actuators and control systems as the platform’s central feature. It presents RP1 as a system researchers can adapt for experiments, rather than describing a particular deployment or demonstrated task.
The claimed scope of access extends beyond control software to the physical platform and its actuators. According to the post, this gives researchers flexibility to modify experimental setups and compare different control approaches. For a research platform, those are distinct uses: adapting the equipment to an experiment and using it to evaluate how alternative controllers behave.
The description of RP1 as fully open source comes from the LinkedIn account, not a technical release included in the supplied material. The post does not specify the licensing terms behind that claim. Its stated research proposition is access across hardware and control systems, with robotics experimentation and embodied AI development as the intended applications.
