GitHub

The world's largest code-hosting platform, where nearly all paper code and open-source robotics projects live.

GitHub is a code-hosting platform, acquired by Microsoft in 2018. It isn't the same thing as Git: Git is a version-control tool that records every change to code locally, while GitHub puts Git repositories in the cloud and adds collaboration features on top. Each project is a “repository,” containing code, documentation (a README), an open-source license, and issue discussions (Issues). Most paper code, model-training frameworks, simulation environments, and robot SDKs in embodied AI are open-sourced on GitHub, so after reading a paper, checking its official repository is the first step toward reproducing it. The typical workflow is to run git clone to pull a repository locally, install dependencies and download weights as the README describes, and run the example scripts; when something breaks, searching the Issues tab first often turns up someone who has already hit the same problem.

ExampleHugging Face's LeRobot code lives at github.com/huggingface/lerobot; after git clone, installing it is just a matter of following the README.

Also called

GitHub Repository

Related

Open-Source License (Apache 2.0 / MIT / Non-commercial) · LeRobot · arXiv Preprint · Open-weight Model · Hugging Face

Sources

GitHub Docs: What is GitHub?（Git 与 GitHub 的区别） (Chinese)