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Robots for Nous Research's open-source agent. Some were built for Hermes; the rest run from a CLI, SDK or MCP server any agent can use. Not all tested with Hermes.

Built for Hermes (3)Works with any agent (19)Weekend installParts catalog: Hermes Workshop

Built for Hermes Agent

The source repo names Hermes Agent as the brain.

Hermes Gadget desktop simulator with a round device screen and conversation panel

Hermes Gadget: an ESP32 or Raspberry Pi voice body for your Hermes Agent

Desk · Easy

JARVIS desk bot with glowing eyes on a desk

JARVIS Desk Bot: a talking ESP32 desk robot for your AI agent

Desk · Medium

Caduceus, a foil-wrapped foam-board robot, in front of a screen showing Hermes Agent

Caduceus: a voice robot body for Hermes Agent, wired up over MCP

Humanoid · Medium

Works with any agent

Each README has commands an agent can run for you.

Run SmolVLA on an SO-101 so it follows plain-English tasks: media published by Hugging Face — SmolVLA blog

SO-101 / LeRobot: Run SmolVLA on an SO-101 so it follows plain-English tasks

Arm · Hard · $230

Fine-tune Physical Intelligence's π0 model for your robot: media published by Physical Intelligence — π0 blog

Fine-tune Physical Intelligence's π0 model for your robot

Arm · Hard

Try NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid foundation model: media published by NVIDIA Isaac GR00T

Try NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid foundation model

Humanoid · Hard

Train a Diffusion Policy on your own robot demos: media published by Diffusion Policy repo (Chi et al.)

Train a Diffusion Policy on your own robot demos

Sim · Medium

ESP32 iPhone agent demo video frame and app screens

Let an AI agent use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32

Sim · Medium · $7

Train a walking policy for Unitree Go2, H1 or G1 in sim: media published by unitreerobotics/unitree_rl_gym

Unitree: Train a walking policy for Unitree Go2, H1 or G1 in sim

Quad · Hard

Make an RC car drive itself with Donkeycar: media published by Donkeycar docs

Make an RC car drive itself with Donkeycar

Wheeled · Medium

Ask your robot questions in plain English with NASA JPL's ROSA: media published by nasa-jpl/rosa

Ask your robot questions in plain English with NASA JPL's ROSA

Sim · Easy

Set up Reachy Mini as a talking desk companion: media published by Hugging Face × Pollen — Reachy Mini blog

Reachy Mini: Set up Reachy Mini as a talking desk companion

Humanoid · Easy

Collect robot training data with a handheld UMI gripper: media published by real-stanford/universal_manipulation_interface

Collect robot training data with a handheld UMI gripper

Arm · Hard

Build ToddlerBot, a low-cost open humanoid for learning: media published by hshi74/toddlerbot

Build ToddlerBot, a low-cost open humanoid for learning

Humanoid · Hard

Pick and place in a real home with zero training (OK-Robot): media published by ok-robot/ok-robot

Pick and place in a real home with zero training (OK-Robot)

Wheeled · Hard

Build a GELLO controller to teleop a robot arm cheaply: media published by wuphilipp/gello_software

Build a GELLO controller to teleop a robot arm cheaply

Arm · Medium

Tell Stretch 3 to pick up objects around your home: media published by hello-robot/stretch_ai

Tell Stretch 3 to pick up objects around your home

Wheeled · Hard

johnboiles on GitHub

Roomba hacks: Bring an old Roomba into Home Assistant with a $5 ESP8266

Vacuum · Medium · $6

Run ROS 2 Humble and Nav2 on a Mini Pupper: media published by mangdangroboticsclub/mini_pupper_ros

Run ROS 2 Humble and Nav2 on a Mini Pupper

Quad · Medium

waveshareteam on GitHub

Drive a Waveshare UGV rover from your browser with live AI vision

Wheeled · Easy

Reachy Mini next to a laptop and a plush fox, running the local baby companion app

Turn Reachy Mini into a fully local baby companion

Humanoid · Medium

AIfred setup: robot arm, USB camera, OptiTrack and desk projector

AIfred: a robot arm + projector that puts ChatGPT on your desk

Arm · Hard

Give Hermes a body this weekend

Three steps, copied from each project's README.

  1. 1. Install Hermes Agent

    If you don't run Hermes yet, the install script sets it up and the hermes command starts a chat.

    • $ curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
    • $ hermes

    From the NousResearch/hermes-agent README

  2. 2. Try a voice body with no hardware

    Hermes Gadget runs the same device code in a desktop simulator. Pair it, chat with it, then flash a real ESP32-S3 board later. The full steps are in the Hermes Gadget install kit.

    • $ python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
    • $ hermes-gadget devserver --pairing
    • $ hermes-gadget sim --url ws://127.0.0.1:8765/gadget --board sim-466x466-round

    From the Adolanium/hermes-gadget-sdk README

  3. 3. Give it motors over MCP

    Caduceus shows the pattern: a small Python MCP server talks to an ESP32 over Wi-Fi, and you register it with Hermes. Swap in your own robot's tools. For a ROS robot, ROS-MCP-Server works with any MCP client.

    • $ hermes mcp add caduceus-robot --command "python3 ~/caduceus_mcp.py"
    • $ hermes mcp list

    From the devorun/caduceus-robot README

Parts notes in the Hermes Workshop

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