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Anvil OpenARM 2.0

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About Anvil OpenARM 2.0

Anvil OpenARM 2.0 is Anvil Robotics' manufactured variant of the open-source OpenArm bimanual manipulation project developed by Enactic. It provides two seven-axis arms for teleoperation, robot learning and manipulation research. Anvil's version changes the wrist-joint arrangement to expand flexion and extension near the body, and uses revised wiring and cable retention for repeated data collection.

Anvil sells a fully assembled robot with power-distribution units, CAN-to-USB adapters and cabling. Its Devbox, grippers and cameras are separate purchases. The current store price is US$5,600, and Anvil states that it no longer produces its earlier OpenARM 1.0. The OpenArm project's manufacturer directory lists Anvil as an independent supplier whose hardware has not been evaluated by the project team.

02 APR 2026

Anvil Robotics raises $6.5M to build a modular hardware and software platform for physical AI teams

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: Physical-AI research and development laboratories
  • Control modes: Teleoperated
  • Multimodal data collection

    Claimed - Record synchronized manipulation demonstrations from four 60 fps camera modules and export them in MCAP or LeRobot formats. - environment: Physical-AI research and development laboratories

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  • Remote and shared control

    Claimed - Control the physical OpenARM 2.0 bimanual platform through Quest controllers or a leader-follower configuration. - environment: Physical-AI research and development laboratories

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Observed use

Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

  • MiraiBit Physical-AI R&D environment

    2026-09-07 - Research Experiment - Trained With - Physical - MiraiBit operates OpenARM 2.0 as a physical teleoperation and manipulation-data collection environment for embodied-AI training and evaluation.

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Timeline

  • Anvil launches integrated OpenARM and OpenYAM Physical AI devkits

    2026-04-06 - Product Launch - The company publicly launched integrated devkits that bundle robot hardware, software, controls, cameras, and teleoperation workflows into a ready-to-run stack Launch materials position the kits around faster data collection and end-to-end model training, with configurations including OpenARM and OpenYAM-based setups The launch post says Anvil had already shipped more than 100 robots to over 50 teams, including NVIDIA, Path Robotics, co.bot, Zeon Systems, and almond.bot

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Context

Market context

OpenARM is an open-source research robot arm platform for development and experimentation in manipulation and control tasks.

  • Target environment: Research labs and development workshops.
  • Workflow context: Manipulation research, control development and robotic arm experimentation using an open-source hardware platform.
  • Customer context: Robotics researchers and developers building and testing manipulation systems.
  • Deployment model: Open-source hardware product for research and development.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercially available open-source research arm with a growing developer community.
  • Adoption constraints: Designed for research rather than production deployment.
  • Market position: An open-source manipulation platform for research and development.
  • Adjacent products: PiPER, NERO, research robot arms

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