AgileX Pika

AgileX Robotics' handheld data-collection kit that records manipulation demonstrations without needing a real robot.

Pika is an embodied-AI data-collection product from AgileX Robotics, similar in concept to UMI: rather than using a real robot, a person holds a gripper-equipped capture device to perform the task, recording footage and motion at the same time. According to the official open-source repository, it consists of the Pika Sense capture device, the Pika Gripper (the same gripper used for inference deployment), a positioning base station, and a data backpack, recording 6-DoF pose, depth, ultra-wide RGB images, and gripper opening state; the SDK documentation shows Sense carries a fisheye camera, a RealSense depth camera, and a Vive Tracker for localization. The collection and deployment grippers share the same camera layout, so once a policy is trained on collected data, the Pika Gripper can be mounted on a robot arm's end effector to execute it directly. The newer Pika Pro kit adds an egocentric head-mounted capture device called Pika EGO.

ExampleA typical workflow: a collector holds Pika Sense and repeatedly performs “put the cup in the sink” in a real kitchen, trains a diffusion policy on the recorded wrist footage and gripper pose, then mounts the Pika Gripper on a robot arm to execute it.

Also called

Pika Sense, Pika Gripper, Pika Pro

Related

Handheld Gripper Data Collection · Universal Manipulation Interface · Robot-free (Embodiment-free) Data Collection · Capture-Execution Isomorphism · AgileX Robotics · FastUMI

Sources

agilexrobotics/pika_ros (GitHub)
agilexrobotics/pika_sdk (GitHub)
AgileX Pika 产品页 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09