Trossen AI kits and Glide profile: ALOHA-style stations with prices

Contents

1. What Trossen sells
2. Published evidence
3. Strengths and limits
4. Pricing
5. Questions to ask Trossen Robotics
6. Sources

Type	Commercial ALOHA-style kits
Pricing	Published
Website	trossenrobotics.com

ALOHA showed that two leader arms, two follower arms and four cameras were enough to teach a robot fine bimanual tasks⁠1Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost HardwarearXiv · 23 Apr 2023. Teams that want that station without building it have bought the kit from Trossen Robotics, which the ALOHA authors link to⁠2ALOHA: a low-cost open-source hardware system for bimanual teleoperationZhao, Kumar, Levine and Finn.

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

Not the right fit for: Teams on a hobby budget, or teams whose task needs a multi-fingered hand.

What Trossen sells

The original kit, Aloha Stationary, is marked discontinued and points to the Trossen AI line⁠3Aloha Stationary (discontinued)Trossen Robotics. That line has four platforms, which Trossen describes as Aloha V2-compatible: the WidowX AI arm at $4,545.95, the single-arm Solo AI, the bimanual Stationary AI and the wheeled Mobile AI at $33,695.95⁠4Trossen AI: Stationary, Mobile, Solo and WidowX AITrossen Robotics.

The Stationary AI kit is listed at $23,995.95. It includes two leader-follower WidowX AI arm pairs, four Intel RealSense D405 cameras, a 10-inch touchscreen and the frame; the desk is not included. The page lists LeRobot, ROS 2, MuJoCo and NVIDIA Isaac among supported software and gives an average production time of two to three weeks⁠5Stationary AI kitTrossen Robotics.

Glide is a separate leader arm with passive, encoder-only joints and a spring balance. A single arm is $2,495, a pair $4,990 and a pair with the Cockpit station $6,995. It controls kinematically similar arms in joint space and a UR3e in Cartesian space⁠6Glide leader arm and Cockpit stationTrossen Robotics. Trossen also lists an open-source data collection SDK and states 20% off a first order for qualifying academic labs and startups⁠76Trossen Robotics: products, data collection SDK and cloudTrossen RoboticsGlide leader arm and Cockpit stationTrossen Robotics.

Published evidence

The evidence is the research lineage. ALOHA reached 80 to 90% success on six fine tasks from about ten minutes of demonstrations each⁠1Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost HardwarearXiv · 23 Apr 2023. Those results were obtained on the original hardware, not on the current kits.

Strengths and limits

Strengths

• Publishes prices: $4,545.95 for a single WidowX AI arm, $23,995.95 for Stationary AI and $33,695.95 for Mobile AI.
• A complete station: Stationary AI includes four arms, four Intel RealSense D405 cameras, a touchscreen and the frame.
• Glide has no motors, only encoders and a spring balance, and also drives a UR3e in Cartesian space.
• States 20% off a first order for qualifying academic labs and startups.

Limits

• About a hundred times the parts cost of an SO-101 pair.
• The older Aloha Stationary kit is discontinued, so published ALOHA tutorials may not match the current hardware exactly.
• Degrees of freedom, payload and reach are not stated on the product pages we read.

Choose another option if: A $230 arm pair is enough to prove the pipeline (SO-101), or you already own the robot and only need a controller (GELLO).

Pricing

Stationary AI $23,995.95, Mobile AI $33,695.95, WidowX AI arm $4,545.95, Glide $2,495 per arm or $6,995 as a pair with Cockpit.

Questions to ask Trossen Robotics

• What are the degrees of freedom, payload and reach of the WidowX AI arm?
• Which published ALOHA and LeRobot tutorials run unchanged on Stationary AI?
• What is the current lead time, and what does the warranty cover?
• Can Glide drive our existing arm, and in joint or Cartesian space?

See how the Trossen kits compares with the other options in the rig comparison table.

Sources

1. Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost Hardware. arXiv, 23 Apr 2023. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
2. ALOHA: a low-cost open-source hardware system for bimanual teleoperation. Zhao, Kumar, Levine and Finn. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
3. Aloha Stationary (discontinued). Trossen Robotics. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
4. Trossen AI: Stationary, Mobile, Solo and WidowX AI. Trossen Robotics. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
5. Stationary AI kit. Trossen Robotics. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
6. Glide leader arm and Cockpit station. Trossen Robotics. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
7. Trossen Robotics: products, data collection SDK and cloud. Trossen Robotics. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.

Further reading

• Buyer's guide · Updated quarterlyTeleoperation hardware in 2027: controllers, kits and rigs comparedNine ways to put a robot under a person's control, from a $230 pair of printed arms to a $24,000 bimanual station, compared on what they cost and what they record, followed by the line most hardware budgets leave out, the operators.
• Guide · Leader arms and kitsRobot teleoperation kits: SO-101, GELLO and the ALOHA line comparedA leader arm is the simplest teleoperation controller and the one that records the cleanest data. The kits differ by a factor of a hundred in price. This guide sets out what the money buys.
• ProfileSO-101 profile: the $230 leader and follower pairAn open-source arm pair that takes a team from nothing to a trained policy for about $230 in parts. Its limits are payload and transfer.