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OM1: Modular by Design Hardware-Agnostic by Default. Your gateway to next-gen robotics | DEM306

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 04, 2026 · Product Launches

OpenMind's OM1 is an open-source, hardware-agnostic orchestration layer bringing LLM cognition to robots.

“we are building software that brings cognition to the robots”

OpenMind demoed OM1, an open-source modular software stack that acts as a hardware-agnostic layer connecting diverse robots (Unitree, Booster, TurtleBot) to cloud-based cognitive infrastructure, using LLMs to drive movement, speech, and autonomy features like SLAM, navigation, and obstacle avoidance. It matters as an example of LLM-driven embodied AI middleware, but as a niche conference demo it represents an emerging trend rather than a critical industry-wide signal.

robotics open-source llm-agents embodied-ai middleware

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