Almond
About
About Almond
Almond combines two independent seven-axis arms with software for recording demonstrations and training manipulation policies. Axol’s internally routed cabling and wrist-camera connections support a compact hardware arrangement, while the software stack includes a Python SDK, command-line tools, bimanual inverse kinematics and LeRobot bindings.
Its WebXR teleoperation interface streams hand and elbow poses from a compatible headset and includes recording modes for collecting task examples. Almond also offers handheld data-collection grippers that can capture manipulation demonstrations without the robot. Customers can request modifications for mobile bases, lifting columns or other hardware, and the company offers task-specific data collection. The resulting offering spans the physical platform, teleoperation and the training data used to develop bimanual behaviour.
Products
- Axol
- Mantis UMI
Mantis UMI
Observed use
- Almond Robotics robot embodiment (model unspecified) with Tobi
Physical Demo - Embedded - Twolabs demonstrated Tobi lighting and serving a birthday candle using an Almond Robotics robot embodiment.
Source
Team
- Saba Khalilnaji - Founder - Co-founded Almond and develops its dual-arm robot and physical-AI platform.
- Shawn Patel - Founder - Co-founded Almond and develops Axol for manipulation research and industrial deployment.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-13 - Product Launch - Physical Intelligence opens Pi API beta to more robot developers
Teams can upload their robot data, launch fine-tuning on PI-managed compute and infrastructure, and run the resulting models through hosted inference. Early users include Argon Robotics, which trained a dish-racking policy within 35 hours, and General Instinct, which trained a server-assembly policy within three days. Beta participation is by application; most showcased applications use cloud-hosted inference, with network connectivity identified as an area for improvement.
Source - 2026-06-10 - Product Launch - Almond launches Axol dual-arm robot for physical-AI teams
Axol provides 860 mm reach and a 4 kg sustained payload for dual-arm manipulation work. The launch offered a standalone robot and an Axol Kit with cameras and compute. Almond said first customer orders were delivering during launch week and provided an open-source SDK.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Physical Intelligence
Pi API Collaboration - Almond uses the Pi API to train Axol to deburr spacers for its own assembly.
Context
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Context tags
- Robot arm OEM - Stack Layer - Profile source material supports Robot arm OEM context.
- Robot learning - Capability - Profile source material supports Robot learning context.
- Force-controlled manipulation - Capability - Profile source material supports Force-controlled manipulation context.