Alternatives

Patchwork alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Patchwork

SOTA fast and robust ground segmentation using 3D point cloud (accepted in RA-L'21 w/ IROS'21)

85
Quality
89
Trust
584
Stars
#1

ProjectAirSim

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 86

Project AirSim is Microsoft's evolution of AirSim, an advanced simulation platform for building, training, and testing autonomous systems in high-fidelity virtual environments

708 starsJun 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add iamaisim/ProjectAirSim
#2

Rko Lio

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 85

A Robust Approach for LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Without Sensor-Specific Modelling

580 starsJun 3, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add PRBonn/rko_lio
#3

Open3d Slam

Similarity 121Trust 84Strong 79

Pointcloud-based graph SLAM written in C++ using open3D library.

614 starsMay 5, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add leggedrobotics/open3d_slam
#4

Apm Planner

Similarity 119Trust 80Strong 74

APM Planner Ground Control Station (Qt)

548 starsApr 18, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add ArduPilot/apm_planner
#5

Genz Icp

Similarity 115Trust 82Strong 81

GenZ-ICP: SOTA robust LiDAR odometry (IEEE RA-L 2025)

671 starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonROS
$ npx skills add cocel-postech/genz-icp
#6

Autorally

Similarity 115Trust 68Needs review 50

Software for the AutoRally platform

784 starsMar 3, 2023 pushrobotics-iotC++Robotics
$ npx skills add AutoRally/autorally
#7

Symforce

Similarity 115Trust 96Excellent 100

Fast symbolic computation, code generation, and nonlinear optimization for robotics

1.6K starsJun 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++Computer Vision
$ npx skills add symforce-org/symforce
#8

Ros Gz

Similarity 114Trust 87Strong 84

Integration between ROS (1 and 2) and Gazebo simulation

522 starsJun 8, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add gazebosim/ros_gz
#9

Isaac Ros Nvblox

Similarity 114Trust 87Strong 80

NVIDIA-accelerated 3D scene reconstruction and Nav2 local costmap provider using nvblox

707 starsMay 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add NVIDIA-ISAAC-ROS/isaac_ros_nvblox
#10

DynamixelSDK

Similarity 113Trust 84Strong 79

ROBOTIS Dynamixel SDK (Protocol1.0/2.0)

591 starsMay 6, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add ROBOTIS-GIT/DynamixelSDK
#11

Mcl 3dl

Similarity 112Trust 85Strong 75

A ROS node to perform a probabilistic 3-D/6-DOF localization system for mobile robots with 3-D LIDAR(s). It implements pointcloud based Monte Carlo localization that uses a reference pointcloud as a map.

597 starsDec 22, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add at-wat/mcl_3dl
#12

Aruco Ros

Similarity 110Trust 82Promising 67

Software package and ROS wrappers of the Aruco Augmented Reality marker detector library

598 starsSep 19, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add pal-robotics/aruco_ros
#13

Dwa Planner

Similarity 110Trust 80Promising 67

ROS implementation of DWA(Dynamic Window Approach) Planner

590 starsOct 6, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add amslabtech/dwa_planner
#14

Lidar Slam Detection

Similarity 110Trust 78Promising 55

LSD (LiDAR SLAM & Detection) is an open source perception architecture for autonomous vehicle/robotic

753 starsJan 1, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++Robotics
$ npx skills add w111liang222/lidar-slam-detection
#15

Ublox

Similarity 109Trust 80Promising 66

A driver for ublox gps

530 starsSep 26, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add KumarRobotics/ublox
#16

Turtlebot3 Simulations

Similarity 109Trust 80Promising 66

Simulations for TurtleBot3

509 starsJul 14, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3_simulations

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