Agilex COBOT Magic (COBOT Magic)

Every robot learning project eventually reaches the same impasse: the model architecture is ready, but there are not enough real demonstrations for it to learn from. Scripting a robot through a task is slow and rarely looks like the way a person would do it. Guiding the machine by hand, driving, reaching, grasping and coordinating both hands in one fluid sequence, is what turns a laboratory idea into a usable dataset. The Agilex COBOT Magic (COBOT Magic) is built around that second approach. It is an open-source robotic system that uses Mobile ALOHA to control both a mobile base and its robotic arms, so that an operator's whole-body demonstration of a task can be recorded and carried into model training in simulated and real-world environments.

Robots Europa, based in Dublin, supplies the COBOT Magic to universities, research institutes and industrial development teams across the European Union and the DACH region. We prepare quotations for the standard configuration and the optional components, coordinate delivery to your laboratory or site, and remain your point of contact for technical support once the system is in use.

Background

AgileX Robotics and its open-source ecosystem

AgileX Robotics was founded in 2016 and describes its mission as advancing innovation in embodied intelligence and accelerating the global commercialisation of robotics through full-stack robotic technologies and an open-source ecosystem. That philosophy is visible throughout the COBOT Magic. Rather than a closed appliance, it is a platform assembled from components the manufacturer also develops and documents in its own right, most notably the AgileX Tracer, a differential motion wheeled robot that serves as the mobile base. For research groups, this matters: the hardware is a known quantity, the software is open, and work done on the platform can be shared, reproduced and extended by other laboratories using the same stack.

Mobile ALOHA: whole-body teleoperation for data collection

Mobile ALOHA is a whole-body remote operation data collection system developed by Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao and Chelsea Finn at Stanford University. Its central idea is that a person can operate a mobile, bimanual robot directly, moving the base and both arms together, while the system records what happens. Those recordings become demonstrations for imitation learning and related methods. The COBOT Magic takes this concept and packages it as a supplied system: four robotic arms, two wrist cameras and one top camera mounted on an AgileX Tracer base, with stronger robotic arms and powerful industrial computers that suit it to complex tasks such as dual-arm operations. The result is a tool intended for both industry and research, supporting work that ranges from simple pick-and-place to demanding sequences such as cooking and organising objects.

Technical Specifications

Specifications are as published by the manufacturer and are confirmed against the datasheet at quotation.

The manufacturer has not published the battery capacity, the maximum speed, the IP rating, the operating temperature, the power supply voltage, the weight of the complete system, the model of the standard onboard computer or the communication interfaces; Robots Europa confirms these with you at quotation.

What makes the COBOT Magic different from a single-arm research robot?

A single arm on a fixed bench is an excellent instrument for studying grasping, but many of the tasks that interest embodied AI researchers are neither stationary nor one-handed. Opening a container while holding it steady, carrying an object across a room before placing it, or preparing food all require two hands working together and a body that can move between locations. The COBOT Magic addresses exactly this combination. Its arms are mounted on a mobile base, its cameras cover both a top view and the view from each wrist, and the 14 + 2 DOFs give a wide space of motion in which to collect diverse data.

The second difference lies in how the robot is taught. Because the system follows the Mobile ALOHA approach, the emphasis is on whole-body teleoperation: an operator demonstrates the task, and the demonstration is the data. This shifts effort away from hand-coding behaviours and towards curating good examples, which is the workflow that modern learning methods, including VLA frameworks and world models, are designed to exploit. The Mobile Aloha software environment supports data and model training across simulated and real-world environments, so a team can iterate between the two without changing platform.

Finally, the system sits comfortably within existing robotics software practice. Support for ROS 1 (Melodic, Noetic) and ROS 2 (Foxy, Humble), together with full SDK documentation and examples, means that perception, navigation and control work already written for ROS can be brought across rather than rebuilt.

Which optional components should be added to the COBOT Magic?

The standard configuration comprises the AgileX Tracer base, the four AgileX-customised arms, the three Orbbec Dabai depth cameras and the 1000W mobile power station. Three items are offered as an optional configuration. The APQ-X7010 industrial PC, specified with GPU 4060 and i7-9700-32g-4T, provides onboard computing for teams that intend to run perception and learned policies on the robot itself. The CH110 IMU adds inertial sensing, which is useful where the motion of the base needs to be logged alongside the camera and arm data. The 11.6" 1080p display gives operators a local screen for monitoring and configuration.

Which of these are worth including depends on where your computation will run, how much state information your datasets should contain and how the system will be operated day to day. We recommend discussing your compute requirements with Robots Europa before the quotation is finalised, so that the configuration matches your training pipeline.

Who is the COBOT Magic for?

The clearest audience is academic research: university laboratories and research institutes working on imitation learning, bimanual manipulation and embodied intelligence, who need a reproducible mobile manipulation platform aligned with a well-known teleoperation method. For these groups, the open-source software and the ROS compatibility are as important as the hardware itself.

Industrial research and development teams form the second segment. Companies exploring whether learned dual-arm skills can be transferred to logistics, assembly support or service tasks can use the COBOT Magic to build internal datasets and evaluate policies before committing to a production solution. The manufacturer explicitly positions it as a versatile tool for both industry and research.

A third group is teaching: advanced courses and doctoral programmes in robotics benefit from a platform on which students can collect their own demonstrations and train models end to end. Organisations whose projects call for a single arm, a different base or a lighter educational platform may find a better match elsewhere in the Cobots range or among the wider AgileX products, and Robots Europa is glad to help compare the options.

What is the COBOT Magic used for?

1. Demonstration data collection: recording whole-body teleoperated demonstrations of real tasks for imitation learning.
2. Pick-and-place research: studying grasping and placement with wrist and top camera views of every movement.
3. Dual-arm manipulation: developing coordinated two-handed skills that a single arm cannot perform.
4. Household and service tasks: working on complex sequences such as cooking and organising objects.
5. VLA and world model training: feeding recorded data into vision-language-action frameworks and world models.
6. Simulation and real-world transfer: training in simulated environments and validating behaviour on the physical robot.

Pricing and Availability

Robots Europa supplies the COBOT Magic on quotation, configured to the standard specification or with the optional industrial PC, IMU and display as your project requires. Delivery, customs and support are arranged together with the quotation, so that the terms for your institution or company are clear from the outset. To begin, tell us about your intended application, your software environment and the components you wish to include. The quotation request for the Agilex COBOT Magic is available on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Mobile ALOHA?

Mobile ALOHA is a whole-body remote operation data collection system developed by Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao and Chelsea Finn at Stanford University. The COBOT Magic uses it to control both the mobile base and the robotic arms.

Which mobile base does the COBOT Magic use?

The standard configuration uses the AgileX Tracer, a wheeled differential motion robot from AgileX Robotics.

How many arms and cameras does the system have?

The hardware is based on four 6 DOF lightweight robot arms customised by AgileX, with three Orbbec Dabai depth cameras: two on the wrists and one at the top.

Which versions of ROS are supported?

The system supports ROS 1 (Melodic, Noetic) and ROS 2 (Foxy, Humble), with full SDK documentation and examples.

Can the COBOT Magic be used for training VLA models?

Yes. The Mobile Aloha software environment supports data and model training across simulated and real-world environments, including robot learning with VLA frameworks and world models.

Is an onboard computer included?

The APQ-X7010 industrial PC, with GPU 4060 and i7-9700-32g-4T, is listed as an optional component. Robots Europa will advise on the computing configuration that suits your training pipeline.

Where can I buy the Agilex COBOT Magic (COBOT Magic) and what does it cost?

You can obtain the COBOT Magic from Robots Europa, which supplies customers across the EU and the DACH region. The cost depends on the configuration you choose, so please request a quotation on this page.

Summary

Robot learning is only as good as the demonstrations behind it, and the COBOT Magic is designed to make those demonstrations natural to give and straightforward to record. By combining the Mobile ALOHA approach to whole-body teleoperation with an AgileX Tracer base, four AgileX-customised arms, three depth cameras and an open, ROS-compatible software stack, it gives research and industrial teams a single platform on which to collect data, train models and test them in the real world. For laboratories in the EU and the DACH region that want to move from algorithm to dataset to working policy, a quotation from Robots Europa on this page is the starting point.