OpenAMRobot v0.0.1 launches open-source ROS 2 mobile robot platform

Botsahare_Company has released OpenAMRobot v0.0.1, the first public product-level version of its open-source mobile robotics platform. Built entirely around ROS 2 Jazzy, the platform targets robotics research, education, rapid prototyping, and early-stage embodied AI development. The release includes a complete differential-drive mobile robot hardware design with mechanical CAD files, a manufacturing bill of materials, and electrical documentation. On the software side, it features Teensy 4.0 firmware running micro-ROS, a Gazebo Harmonic simulation environment, full Nav2 autonomous navigation stack with LiDAR SLAM, and AprilTag-based auto-docking. The platform also provides a web-based operator interface with Blockly no-code programming, camera streaming, telemetry, and an initial voice and LLM command workflow—offering a rare, all-in-one open-source stack for both traditional robotics and AI experimentation.

OpenAMRobot is still early-stage, with known limitations in functional safety, physical docking reliability, and industrial readiness. The developers have organized the codebase into separate repositories for hardware, software, firmware, UI, and documentation, and this v0.0.1 release is a frozen archive that ensures reproducibility. They welcome community feedback on ROS 2 package architecture, Nav2 configuration and testing, auto-docking reliability, hardware and firmware structure, and the Blockly and operator interface workflows. This release lowers the barrier for researchers and hobbyists to build and program their own intelligent mobile robots without expensive proprietary systems, and its built-in LLM command support hints at a future where open-source hardware and AI are tightly integrated.