Pixel: A Co-Designed Full-Stack Robot System for Learning General-Purpose Mobile Manipulation

General-purpose mobile manipulation requires a combination of capable robot hardware, scalable demonstration collection, expressive whole-body control, and effective policy learning. Yet these components are often developed independently, creating mismatches that limit the capabilities of the complete system. We present Pixel, a co-designed full-stack system for learning general-purpose mobile manipulation. Pixel combines a low-cost wheeled humanoid with human-aligned kinematics and compliant grippers, multiple teleoperation and robot-free human data-collection interfaces, a unified whole-body controller, and a common policy learning pipeline across human and robot demonstrations. A hierarchical learning stack further enables language-conditioned visuomotor control and long-horizon task execution. We evaluate the system across hardware, data collection, and policy learning, and demonstrate mobile-manipulation behaviors requiring dexterity, active perception, navigation, and whole-body coordination. We hope that Pixel provides an integrated and extensible foundation for studying how robot hardware, data, control, and learning can be designed together for robot learning. More results at https://pixel-robot.com/pixel

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arXiv (Cornell University)
Published
2026-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2611.03648
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Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
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Pixel: A Co-Designed Full-Stack Robot System for Learning General-Purpose Mobile Manipulation

Deepak Pathak, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Jason Liu, Tony Tao
arXiv (Cornell University)
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
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Pixel: A Co-Designed Full-Stack Robot System for Learning General-Purpose Mobile Manipulation

Deepak Pathak, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Jason Liu, Tony Tao
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Abstract

General-purpose mobile manipulation requires a combination of capable robot hardware, scalable demonstration collection, expressive whole-body control, and effective policy learning. Yet these components are often developed independently, creating mismatches that limit the capabilities of the complete system. We present Pixel, a co-designed full-stack system for learning general-purpose mobile manipulation. Pixel combines a low-cost wheeled humanoid with human-aligned kinematics and compliant grippers, multiple teleoperation and robot-free human data-collection interfaces, a unified whole-body controller, and a common policy learning pipeline across human and robot demonstrations. A hierarchical learning stack further enables language-conditioned visuomotor control and long-horizon task execution. We evaluate the system across hardware, data collection, and policy learning, and demonstrate mobile-manipulation behaviors requiring dexterity, active perception, navigation, and whole-body coordination. We hope that Pixel provides an integrated and extensible foundation for studying how robot hardware, data, control, and learning can be designed together for robot learning. More results at https://pixel-robot.com/pixel

arXiv (Cornell University)
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
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Pixel: A Co-Designed Full-Stack Robot System for Learning General-Purpose Mobile Manipulation — Deepak Pathak, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS