LeRobot: An Open-Source Library for End-to-End Robot Learning

ICLR 2026 Conference Submission22004 Authors

Keywords: robot learning, open source, robotics

TL;DR: An open-source, scalabe and accessible library for end-to-end robot learning with real-world robots support

Abstract:

Robotics is undergoing a significant transformation powered by advances in high-level control techniques based on machine learning, giving rise to the field of robot learning.
Recent progress in robot learning has been accelerated by the increasing availability of affordable teleoperation systems, large-scale openly available datasets, and scalable learning-based methods.
However, development in the field of robot learning is often slowed by fragmented, closed-source tools designed to only address specific sub-components within the robotics stack.
In this paper, we present lerobot, an open-source library that integrates across the entire robotics stack, from low-level middleware communication for motor controls to large-scale dataset collection, storage and streaming.
The library is designed with a strong focus on real-world robotics, supporting accessible hardware platforms while remaining extensible to new embodiments.
It also supports efficient implementations for various state-of-the-art robot learning algorithms from multiple prominent paradigms, as well as a generalized asynchronous inference stack.
Unlike traditional pipelines which heavily rely on hand-crafted techniques, lerobot emphasizes scalable learning approaches that improve directly with more data and compute.
Designed for accessibility, scalability, and openness, lerobot lowers the barrier to entry for researchers and practitioners to robotics while providing a platform for reproducible, state-of-the-art robot learning.

Primary Area: infrastructure, software libraries, hardware, systems, etc.

Submission Number: 22004