Trossen Robotics Makes THE Official Aloha Kits
What Our Kits Provide
With every Aloha Research Kit you're getting a lab in a box. We take care of the hardware so you can start tackling data collection and data model development to power your machine learning and robotic automation projects.
Project Goals
☑ A Robotic Bimanual Teleoperational Research System
☑ Fine-Grain Controls for a Variety of Training Tasks
☑ Low-Cost Research-Grade Hardware
☑ Repairability
☑ Easy to Assemble and Get Started
☑ User-Friendly
☑ Capture Video for Machine Learning and Data Models
Aloha Hardware
Available in Stationary and Mobile Versions
Whether you are focused on tabletop activities,
or navigating the real world, we have a kit for you.
Trossen Robotics Makes THE Official Aloha Kits
Aloha Team
A cross-collaborative team from three universities.
Tony and Zipeng are the lead researchers on the Aloha Projects.
Tony Z. Zhao
PhD Student, Stanford University
Zipeng Fu
PhD Student, Stanford University
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Vikash Kumar
Adjunct Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Sergey Levine
Associate Professor
U.C. Berkeley
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: What are the Aloha Kits designed to do?
A: Aloha Kits are designed to gather the data necessary to develop machine learning models by researchers and engineers at your organization. The Aloha Kits can perform mimicry as a playback of your tasks and come with ACT/ACT++, machine learning policy architectures designed by researchers at Stanford, as well as a simple pre-trained “Hello ALOHA” task policy. This serves as a demonstration of the Kit’s capabilities, and as a baseline for further policy and architecture development.
Q: What data do Aloha Kits gather?
A: An Aloha Kit can record many sources of data. Both Stationary and Mobile kits come with 2 Leader Arms and 2 Follower arms and 3-4 Intel RealSense stereo depth cameras. You can derive joint positions and speed from each servo and image data from each camera. For the Mobile, you can also derive linear and angular speeds from the base motor encoders.
Q: What is the data used for?
A: The data gathered using the Aloha Kit hardware is used for feeding into machine learning models, neural networks or language models. These models can then be used for custom robotic automation applications you develop.
Q: Are the Aloha Kits rated for a commercial or production environment?
A: While we design our hardware for long-term repeated use, it is not designed nor intended for production or commercial environments.