Product profile
OpenYAM
OpenYAM is Anvil Robotics' open mobile-base hardware project referenced in its devkit configurations. It supports research and development work around mobi...
Facts
- Company
- Anvil Robotics
- Product type
- robotic_arm
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- desktop manipulation and robot-learning data collection
- Website
- https://shop.anvil.bot/products/openyam
About OpenYAM
OpenYAM is an open-hardware desktop robot arm sold by Anvil Robotics for manipulation development and data collection. Anvil publishes the mechanical CAD and offers the arm as a robot kit, with a separate Quest Teleop Kit for operator demonstrations.
The platform supports ROS 2, Foxglove and LeRobot workflows, while its control bus is documented at 500 to 1,000 hertz. It is a manipulation development system, with no mobile base in the documented product configuration.
Market context
robot, Desktop Manipulator, open_source_desktop_manipulator, industrial_robot, 2026-08-21, Desktop Manipulator, industrial_robot, desktop_manipulator, industrial_robot, controlled_category_mapping_2026-08-21, false
Summary
Type: Mobile base
Core: Open hardware
Function: Mobility
Audience: Developers
Specifications
- commercial_status
- developer_platform
- mobility_class
- mobile_manipulator
- operating_environment
- indoor_structured
- operational_role
- research_development; manipulation
Operations
- Environment
- robotics research laboratories, light-industrial development workstations
- Primary user
- robotics researchers, physical AI development teams
- Role
- desktop manipulation, teleoperation data collection
- Interaction model
- teleoperated, developer_programmed
- Mobility class
- fixed-base manipulator
- Product detail
- robot, Desktop Manipulator, open_source_desktop_manipulator, industrial_robot, 2026-08-21, Desktop Manipulator, industrial_robot, desktop_manipulator, industrial_robot, controlled_category_mapping_2026-08-21, false