Teleoperation
VR Teleoperation
VR teleoperation is the control of a robot through a virtual-reality headset and tracked hand controllers or hand tracking, with the operator's head and hand motions retargeted to the robot's cameras and end effectors, often with stereoscopic video feedback for depth perception. Consumer headsets such as the Meta Quest have made it a widespread low-cost interface, and systems like Open-TeleVision and AnyTeleop popularized it for bimanual data collection.
Why it matters for physical AI
Immersive teleoperation is one of the highest-throughput ways to collect dexterous bimanual demonstrations, directly feeding the demonstration-hungry imitation pipelines behind current robot foundation models.
Build physical AI
Put these concepts to work on real hardware
Axol is a dual-arm robot built for physical AI — teleoperate it, collect demonstrations, and deploy learned policies out of the box.