Teleoperation Hardware

Profiles

One profile per option reviewed: what it does, the evidence it publishes, how it is priced and when to choose something else.

  1. 1. RoboPilots

    Trained remote pilots

    Best for: Teams that have a robot and a way to drive it, and would rather not recruit, train and schedule the people who do the driving.

  2. 2. SO-101 leader and follower arms

    Open-source leader-follower kit

    Best for: A first dataset and a first trained policy on the smallest budget, with software that records and uploads episodes out of the box.

  3. 3. GELLO

    Open-source leader arm

    Best for: Teams that already own a Franka, UR5 or xArm and want joint-space control of it for a few hundred dollars.

  4. 4. Trossen AI kits and Glide

    Commercial ALOHA-style kits

    Best for: Labs and startups that want a supported bimanual leader-follower station delivered in weeks, with published prices.

  5. 5. Meta Quest 3

    VR headset and hand controllers

    Best for: A low-cost, widely supported way to drive an arm or a humanoid’s upper body by hand pose, including from another building.

  6. 6. Apple Vision Pro

    Mixed-reality headset with hand tracking

    Best for: Bimanual dexterous hands and humanoid upper bodies, where bare-hand finger tracking without controllers is the point.

  7. 7. MANUS Metagloves Pro

    Commercial finger-tracking glove

    Best for: Teams driving a multi-fingered robot hand that want a supported commercial glove with a ROS 2 integration.

  8. 8. DOGlove

    Open-source haptic glove

    Best for: Research teams that want finger capture with force feedback and are willing to build the glove themselves.

  9. 9. AirExo

    Open-source arm exoskeleton

    Best for: Whole-arm demonstrations on a research arm, including collection away from the robot.

  10. 10. UMI gripper

    Handheld capture gripper

    Best for: Collecting many gripper demonstrations quickly, in real places, with no robot on site.