LeRobot by Hugging Face
Robotics framework in Developer tools
Free library for imitation and reinforcement learning on robots, praised for lowering the barrier to entry. Critics call it young and amateur, and say it changes often.
Free library for imitation and reinforcement learning on robots, praised for lowering the barrier to entry. Critics call it young and amateur, and say it changes often.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easier entry into robot learning
“Not the best professionnal lib (still young and amateur) but really good to start doing imitation learning / reinforcement learning projects.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?” “it has really democratized the field and has made it much easier to get into the subject”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Xiaomi-Robotics-1” “LeRobot also makes it easier to train these.”
Comment from 19 Jun 2026 in “Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Young, amateur library
“Not the best professionnal lib (still young and amateur) but really good to start doing imitation learning / reinforcement learning projects.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?” Bundles too much beyond the core
“LeRobot IMO is some of this but also contains the dataset + ML code”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROS 2 | 11 | 25 | 31% | 6 | — | — |
| LeRobot by Hugging FaceThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Lerobot banked on having full DL control of each joint so they wouldn't have to do that properly”
“even LeRobot (without proper fingers) can fold clothes now”
“it has really democratized the field and has made it much easier to get into the subject”
“LeRobot IMO is some of this but also contains the dataset + ML code”
“LeRobot also makes it easier to train these.”
“LeRobot will change all the time and I'll be unaware of what changed.”
“So I looked at Huggingface Lerobot project.”
“Not the best professionnal lib (still young and amateur) but really good to start doing imitation learning / reinforcement learning projects.”
“it was a fun project to put together the kit and get the follower arm to follow the leader”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.