Axol
9 499 USD
Almond AI, Inc.
Axol is Almond AI’s open, dual-arm robot for physical AI research — not a full humanoid, since it has no legs or head. It offers two 7-DOF arms with 860mm of reach and up to 6.5kg of payload per arm, built for real-world manipulation work rather than staged demos. It ships in stock from San Francisco starting at $9,499, with a fully open-source SDK and built-in VR teleoperation support.
Skill Score
2
Specifications and details:
| Availability | In production |
|---|---|
| Nationality | US |
| Website | https://www.almond.bot/ |
| Degrees of freedom, overall | 14 |
| Degrees of freedom, hands | 2 |
| Height [cm] | 61 |
| Max speed (km/h) | 2.5 |
| Strength [kg] | 6.5 |
| Weight [kg] | 19.5 |
| Runtime pr charge (hours) | N/A |
| Safe with humans | Yes |
| CPU/GPU | ZED Box Orin NX (100 TOPS, 16GB), Jetson AGX Orin (275 TOPS, 64GB), or top-tier Jetson Thor T5000 (Blackwell, 2070 FP4 TFLOPS, 128GB) |
| Ingress protection | N/A |
| Camera resolution | 2× ZED X One S Fisheye (wrist), 1× ZED X Mini global-shutter (head) |
| Connectivity | 2× internal FAKRA GMSL 2.0 (wrist camera feeds), USB-C (500Hz CAN control), XT90 power connector |
| Operating system | N/A |
| LLM integration | N/A |
| Latency glass to action | N/A |
| Motor tech | Electric servo/BLDC actuators, consistent with the 500Hz CAN-controlled joint design |
| Gear tech | Harmonic or planetary reduction gearing |
| Main structural material | Steel, aluminum, and TPU |
| Number of fingers | 2 per gripper |
| Main market | Physical AI research teams, Research & education, robotics startups |
| Color | Black |
| Manufacturer | Almond AI, Inc. |
Description
Axol is not a humanoid robot in the traditional sense. It has no legs, no head, and no walking gait. Instead, Almond AI built it as a dual-arm manipulation robot, meant to bolt onto a table or cart and get straight to work. Because it skips the complexity of full-body humanoid design, Axol can focus entirely on what its arms do.
Almond AI built Axol out of real frustration, not abstract ambition. Its founders spent a year putting commercial robots to work in grocery stores and factories. Again and again, those robots hit the same walls: limited reach, overheating motors, and cables that wore out and failed. Singularities also kept forcing the arms to stop and awkwardly reposition themselves. So, instead of tolerating those limits, the team designed their own robot from scratch. Axol is essentially the robot Almond wished it already had.
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Physically, Axol trades a humanoid shape for real working capability. Each arm has seven degrees of freedom and reaches out 860 millimeters, which is longer than most comparable dual-arm robots. Additionally, the wrists rotate through a full 180 degrees in both pitch and yaw. As a result, Axol avoids many of the awkward stops and resets that shorter-range arms run into. Each arm can also lift up to 6.5 kilograms at its peak, with a steady 4 kilograms as its everyday working load. Meanwhile, swappable two-finger grippers let users adapt the hands to different tasks without buying a whole new robot. Because everything bolts onto a simple mounting pattern, teams can also add a mobile base, cameras, or extra compute as their project grows.
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Openness is central to how Almond built Axol. The company ships it with a fully open-source SDK, so teams can inspect and modify the low-level control themselves. It also supports VR teleoperation out of the box, so someone can drive the arms directly from a headset. Consequently, teams can start collecting real manipulation data almost immediately, rather than spending months building tooling first. Pricing starts under $10,000, which is unusually accessible for a robot with this much reach and payload. Right now, Axol is in stock and ships from San Francisco, not stuck in a pre-order queue. So, for teams building physical AI systems today, Axol is ready to work now, not just someday.
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