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title: "asimov-1: v1 of Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot"
description: "Menlo Research has published Asimov 1, an open-source humanoid robot project on GitHub."
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published_at: "2026-10-21"
updated_at: "2026-10-21"
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# asimov-1: v1 of Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot

## Retrieval answer

Menlo Research has published Asimov 1, an open-source humanoid robot project on GitHub.

Menlo Research has published Asimov 1, an open-source humanoid robot project on GitHub. The repository includes mechanical and electrical CAD, wiring-harness material, schematics and PCB files, a MuJoCo simulation model, and onboard software. The project uses CERN-OHL-S-2.0 for hardware material and GPL-2.0 for software.

Asimov 1 is specified as a 1.2 m, 35 kg biped with 25 actuated degrees of freedom. Its listed onboard compute is a Raspberry Pi 5 for media and networking plus a Radxa CM5 for motion control. The repository lists a monocular 2 MP camera, IMUs, microphone array, speaker, and CAN buses; lidar and a 360 camera are not included in the DIY kit.

Menlo offers an unassembled DIY kit for $20,000 and says it is shipping now. Builders can alternatively self-source parts using the BOM, assembly material, and fabrication manifest. The repository's roadmap marks an Asimov Edge component and a locomotion policy as future work. The source does not establish autonomous deployment performance, real-world reliability, or independently verified training results.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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