Universal Manipulation Interface
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A handheld demonstration interface that inspired Grabette for collecting manipulation data in the wild.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 37%.
Evidence (2)
- 7Hugging Face Blog·7/21/2026open_sourceGrabette: Open handheld system for robot manipulation data
Grabette is an open, low-cost handheld gripper system for recording human manipulation demonstrations and converting them into robot-ready datasets. It is designed to make data collection easier and to support a shared, open dataset for robot learning through the Hugging Face ecosystem and LeRobot.
- 8Hacker News·7/20/2026researchXiaomi Robotics 1 scales robot policy models with data
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 is a robot policy model trained with large-scale embodiment-free pre-training on 100,000 hours of UMI trajectories, followed by post-training on real-robot data. The authors report that both pre-training and real-world robot success improve steadily as data and model size increase, suggesting predictable scaling behavior for robotics.