{"id":"almond-axol","manufacturer":"Almond","model":"Axol","country":"US","description":"Axol is a dual-arm robot (no legs, and no head in the base configuration) from San Francisco startup Almond, built for teams developing physical AI. It has two 7-DoF arms with 860 mm reach and starts at 9,499 dollars. It mounts on a table, a cart or a mobile base with a lift.","catalog_status":"shipping","specifications":{"height_cm":null,"weight_kg":null,"payload_kg":6.5,"dof":14,"speed_ms":null,"battery_h":null},"capabilities":["sort"],"source":{"url":"https://www.almond.bot/","verified_at":null,"verified_fields":[],"review_status":"requires_current_source_check"},"evidence":{"manufacturer_review":null,"mera_field_test":{"status":"not_published","report_url":null,"measured_at":null},"verification_note":"A manufacturer documentation check does not verify field performance, inventory or MERA compatibility."},"knowledge":{"summary":"Axol is a dual-arm robot (no legs, and no head in the base configuration) from San Francisco startup Almond, built for teams developing physical AI. It has two 7-DoF arms with 860 mm reach and starts at 9,499 dollars. It mounts on a table, a cart or a mobile base with a lift.","sections":[{"h":"Design and technology","p":["Each arm has 7 DoF, 860 mm reach and a 6.5 kg peak payload, with a 500 Hz control rate. Full 180° wrist pitch and yaw reduce shoulder singularities and enlarge the usable workspace, according to Almond. Cables are routed internally, the build uses steel, aluminium and TPU, and FAKRA GMSL 2.0 passthroughs support wrist cameras.","Every Axol includes two 2-finger grippers with swappable tips and a 1,500 W power supply. Options include cameras (two wrist, one head), NVIDIA compute (ZED Box Orin, Jetson AGX Orin or Jetson Thor), a Meta Quest 3 for teleoperation, and mounts: Owl Mount, Ox Cart or the Jelly Mobile base. Jelly Mobile (7,999 dollars) is a holonomic base with a 2.4 kWh battery for 4 to 10 hours, a 610 mm lift and 0.7 m/s drive."]},{"h":"Software and AI","p":["Axol is driven over a single USB-C link from a Linux machine running Python 3.12+. The open-source SDK and CLI include a bimanual IK solver, a CAN motor interface, ZED camera streaming, LeRobot bindings and WebXR VR teleoperation, and datasets are recorded in LeRobot format. There is no official ROS package, but the Python API can be wrapped in a ROS 2 node.","Almond also sells Mantis UMI, a pair of handheld data-collection grippers geometrically identical to Axol's (from 1,799 dollars), and a data collection service billed per hour of usable data."]},{"h":"Applications","p":["Almond lists contact-rich bimanual manipulation, policy learning and deployment, VR teleoperation and data collection, and manipulation research. Axol is a platform for companies and labs that train their own models."]},{"h":"Company","p":["Almond was founded in San Francisco in 2025 and went through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch. Its founders are Saba Khalilnaji (CEO, formerly a logistics engineer at DoorDash) and Shawn Patel (CTO); YC lists a team of six. The robot is assembled in the USA."]},{"h":"Price and availability","p":["Axol starts at 9,499 dollars with grippers (8,549 dollars without), is in stock and ships from San Francisco within a week. Almond also offers customization and on-site repair in the SF Bay Area."]}],"timeline":[["2025","Almond founded; Y Combinator Spring 2025 batch"],["2026-10","Axol on sale from 9,499 dollars, shipping within a week"]],"faq":[["How much does the Almond Axol cost?","From 9,499 dollars with grippers, 8,549 dollars without."],["Is Axol a humanoid?","It is a legless dual-arm torso; with the Jelly Mobile base and a head camera it resembles a wheeled semi-humanoid."],["Does Axol work with LeRobot?","Yes, the SDK has LeRobot bindings and records datasets in that format."],["What is Axol's payload?","6.5 kg peak per arm."],["Does Axol support ROS?","There is no official ROS package, but the Python API can be wrapped in a ROS 2 node."]],"sources":[{"title":"Almond Axol - Dual-Arm Robot for Physical AI","publisher":"Almond","url":"https://www.almond.bot/","date":"2026-10"},{"title":"Almond: A dual-arm robot built for physical AI","publisher":"Y Combinator","url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/almond-2","date":"2026-10"},{"title":"Axol documentation","publisher":"Almond","url":"https://docs.almond.bot","date":"2026-10"}],"updated":"2026-10-10"},"mera":{"rental_with_operator":false,"sale_in_offer":false,"availability":"confirmation_required","shop_url":null},"url":"https://merarobotics.com/blog/humanoids/almond-axol","inquiry_url":"https://merarobotics.com/en/start?service=purchase&robot=almond-axol"}