ALOHA (A Low-cost Open-source Hardware System for Bimanual Teleoperation)

ALOHA is an open-source bimanual teleoperation system developed at Stanford, consisting of two ViperX 300 robot arms and two WidowX 250 leader arms mounted on a shared frame with an integrated wrist camera. It was designed to collect high-quality demonstration data at low cost — the original build is under $20,000 — and underpins the ACT policy experiments. Mobile ALOHA extends the platform with a wheeled base, enabling whole-body loco-manipulation tasks such as cooking and cleaning. ALOHA datasets are publicly available and have become a de-facto benchmark for bimanual manipulation research. Learn more at SVRC Data Services.