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).
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 43 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Open robot OS / agentic framework (FABRIC + OM1) vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2024 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- OM1 (open robot operating model) repo fix
- GitHub
- OpenMind/OM1 — ~3.0k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo fix
- Pricing
- OSS free; commercial support paid vendor fix
- Funding
- $20M Series A 2025 (Pantera + others) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- Licensing
- open-core (estimate) fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 9.45 (12-mo avg 26.1) · 8 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
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
- Go runtime (recommended; Python runtime deprecated); ROS2 integration via DDS or websockets
- Backend storage
- Caller-managed
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — prebuilt binaries for Linux/macOS or build from source; connects to robot HAL/ROS2 via DDS or websockets
- 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
Similar systems
Other robotics foundation models & agent stacks in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics T1
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics + Gemini Robotics-ER (Embodied Reasoning) released Mar-2025. VLA models built on Gemini 2.0 backbone. Reference platform: Apptronik Apollo. The DeepMind line of robotics-FM, descendant of earlier RT-1 / RT-2 / RT-X work.
- Physical Intelligence (π) T1
Founded 2024 by Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) and Karol Hausman + others (ex-Google Brain Robotics). Building general-purpose robot foundation models (π0 released Oct-2024; π0.5 in 2025) trained on cross-embodiment robot trajectories. Raised $400M Series A (Nov-2024; Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive, Lux) at $2.4B val. Released π0.7 (2026-04-16) and opened its models through the Pi API beta (2026-10-13).
- 1X Technologies T2
Norway / US humanoid robot company — Eve (wheeled bimanual) + Neo (legged humanoid, consumer-targeted, late 2025 / 2026 launch). Raised $100M Series B (Jan-2024, EQT + OpenAI Startup Fund); $40M Series A (Mar-2023, OpenAI lead). Distinguishing feature: consumer-home positioning rather than industrial.
- Agility Robotics T2
Oregon-based humanoid maker; Digit is in production at GXO Logistics warehouses since Sep-2024 — claimed first humanoid in commercial service in the US. Spinout of Oregon State University. $400M+ raised (Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund participant).
- Apptronik T2
Apollo humanoid maker, spun out of University of Texas Human Centered Robotics Lab. Raised $350M Series A (Feb-2025; B Capital + Capital Factory); Mercedes-Benz manufacturing partner (Mar 2024). Partnered with Google DeepMind on Gemini Robotics (Mar 2025) — Apollo is the headline reference platform for Gemini Robotics.
- Collaborative Robotics T3
Founded 2022 by Brad Porter (ex-Amazon Robotics VP + Scale AI CTO). Stealthier than the humanoid pack; raised $100M Series B Apr-2024 (General Catalyst). Targets warehouse + healthcare collaborative robots.
Sources (42 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Open robot OS / agentic framework (FABRIC + OM1) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct OpenMind — open robot OS (OM1) + FABRIC interconnect, founded by Jan Liphardt (Stanford)… vendor
- Claims / benefits OM1 launched 2024; FABRIC interconnect; $20M Series A 2025 vendor
- Modalities vision + language + action vendor
- Created 2024 (founded) vendor
- Latest release OM1 (open robot operating model) repo
- License MIT repo
- GitHub OpenMind/OM1 — ~3.0k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Mindshare Niche; growing as 'open robot OS' narrative gains traction vendor
- Funding $20M Series A 2025 (Pantera + others) vendor
- Customers / scale Robot maker partners; research community vendor
- Pricing OSS free; commercial support paid vendor
- Data handling OSS — your infra vendor
- Deployment Self-hosted only — prebuilt binaries for Linux/macOS or build from source; connects to r… repo
- HQ US (Bay Area) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Jan Liphardt (founder; Stanford) vendor
- Reproducibility OSS — fully reproducible repo
- Code/weights release OSS MIT repo
- API surface Go runtime (recommended; Python runtime deprecated); ROS2 integration via DDS or websock… repo
- Backend storage Caller-managed repo
- Multi-tenancy Per-robot single-tenant repo
- Encryption Self-host — caller-controlled repo
- Versioning OM1 v-versioning repo
- Namespace primitives per-robot repo
- Import / export Full OSS — portable repo
- Validated verticals research + early commercial humanoids vendor
- Time to running Days (Linux/ROS robot + install) vendor
- Anti-fit Niche; small ecosystem vs Isaac / ROS; commercial adoption unproven vendor
- Optimised for Open robot OS layer agnostic to humanoid maker + LLM vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure ROS; LeRobot adjacency; FABRIC interconnect vendor
- Pros OSS MIT; $20M Series A; clear 'Android of robots' positioning. vendor
- Cons Tiny ecosystem vs NVIDIA Isaac / ROS; commercial adoption unproven. vendor
- Project & sources openmind.org; github.com/OpenMind-Labs/OM1 vendor
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform repo
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":25.4,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":26.1,"openrank_current":9.45,"partici… third-party
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