OpenMind OM1
OpenMind — open robot OS (OM1) + FABRIC interconnect, founded by Jan Liphardt (Stanford). Pitched as the 'Android of robots': any humanoid + any LLM + the same OS layer. Raised $20M Series A (Pantera + others, 2025).
At a glance
- Type
- Open robot OS / agentic framework (FABRIC + OM1)
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2024 (founded)
- Latest release
- OM1 (open robot operating model)
- License
- MIT
- GitHub
- github.com/OpenMind-Labs/OM1
- Pricing
- OSS free; commercial support paid
- Funding
- $20M Series A 2025 (Pantera + others)
Taxonomy
- storage
- weight
- retrieval
- parametric-recall
- persistence
- parametric-permanent
- update
- agent-controlled
- unit
- trajectory
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- training-time
When to use
Optimised for: Open robot OS layer agnostic to humanoid maker + LLM
Anti-fit: Niche; small ecosystem vs Isaac / ROS; commercial adoption unproven
Pros & cons
Pros
OSS MIT; $20M Series A; clear 'Android of robots' positioning.
Cons
Tiny ecosystem vs NVIDIA Isaac / ROS; commercial adoption unproven.
Claims & capabilities
OM1 launched 2024; FABRIC interconnect; $20M Series A 2025
Technical surface
- API surface
- Python + ROS APIs
- Backend storage
- Caller-managed
- Deployment
- Self-host; runs on Linux/ROS-class robots
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Per-robot single-tenant
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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- 1X Technologies T2
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- Collaborative Robotics T3
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