Product profile
OpenYAM
OpenYAM is Anvil Robotics' open-source desktop manipulator for light industrial and robot-learning work. The CNC and sheet-metal arm is sold as a kit and w...
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 at 500 to 1,000 hertz. Paired with Anvil’s control software, the arm has demonstrated fine manipulation tasks such as tying zip ties.
Market context
robot, Desktop Manipulator, open_source_desktop_manipulator, false, industrial_robot, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, Desktop Manipulator, industrial_robot, true, verified existing controlled taxonomy; no Other; humanoid and semi-humanoid labels retained unchanged, 74, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, desktop_manipulator, industrial_robot, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, 2, controlled_category_mapping_2026-08-21, false, 0.211, true
Summary
Type: Desktop arm
Core: OpenYAM
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Robot developers
Specifications
- architecture
- operational role: research_development; manipulation
- commercial_status
- developer_platform
- mobility_class
- mobile_manipulator
- operating_environment
- indoor_structured
Operations
- Deployment environment
- robotics research laboratories, light-industrial development workstations
- Primary user
- robotics researchers, physical AI development teams
- Workflow
- desktop manipulation, teleoperation data collection
- Interaction model
- teleoperated, developer_programmed
- Mobility class
- fixed-base manipulator
- Product detail
- robot, Desktop Manipulator, open_source_desktop_manipulator, false, industrial_robot, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, Desktop Manipulator, industrial_robot, true, verified existing controlled taxonomy; no Other; humanoid and semi-humanoid labels retained unchanged, 74, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, desktop_manipulator, industrial_robot, 2026-08-28T09:51:18.361Z, 2, controlled_category_mapping_2026-08-21, false, 0.211, true