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A modular data glove built for robot learning. ENSURING’s Magic Glove uses quick-release sensor modules, combining 15 motion-tracking units, 1,000+ tactile sensing points, and real-time 6-axis force data. The modular design is the interesting part here: sensors can be swapped or reconfigured depending on the task, making it a... show more

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20,983 views • 1 year ago

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40,203 views • 2 months ago

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Ilir Aliu

42,864 views • 7 months ago

Most of today's AI can see the world, but it doesn’t **feel** it. Capturing the sense of touch is crucial for dexterous robotic manipulation, user modeling, and understanding physical interactions. Introducing OpenTouch: bringing full-hand tactile sensing into real-world AI🖐️ OpenTouch is collected in-the-wild using tactile sensing gloves, hand pose tracking gloves, and egocentric glasses. It includes: • 5 hours of real-world data, • 3 hours densely annotated contact-rich interactions, • 2,900 curated interaction clips, • across 800 objects, 14 environments, and 29 grasp types. all open at:

Most of today's AI can see the world, but it doesn’t feel it. Capturing the sense of touch is crucial for dexterous robotic manipulation, user modeling, and understanding physical interactions. Introducing OpenTouch: bringing full-hand tactile sensing into real-world AI🖐️ OpenTouch is collected in-the-wild using tactile sensing gloves, hand pose tracking gloves, and egocentric glasses. It includes: • 5 hours of real-world data, • 3 hours densely annotated contact-rich interactions, • 2,900 curated interaction clips, • across 800 objects, 14 environments, and 29 grasp types. all open at:

Paul Liang

47,158 views • 4 months ago

Robotics is still data starved. Collecting high-quality robot demonstrations remains brutally slow and expensive. Introducing COBALT: A cloud-native teleoperation platform designed for large-scale robot learning. We are democratizing data collection by leveraging the hardware everyone already owns: the smartphone All you need is to download an app (today)! Read on for more!

Robotics is still data starved. Collecting high-quality robot demonstrations remains brutally slow and expensive. Introducing COBALT: A cloud-native teleoperation platform designed for large-scale robot learning. We are democratizing data collection by leveraging the hardware everyone already owns: the smartphone All you need is to download an app (today)! Read on for more!

Animesh Garg

104,331 views • 3 months ago

1/7 Physical AI has a data problem. More compute alone won’t teach a robot how to move, grasp, react, or recover from mistakes. LLMs had the entire internet to learn from. Robots need something different: huge amounts of real action data. That’s where Axis Robotics gets interesting. $AXIS is building a data engine for Physical AI, turning robot training into something people can contribute to directly through a browser. The loop is straightforward: Generate → Collect → Process → Deploy → Correct → Repeat. What looks simple on the surface could become something much bigger underneath: a scalable way to produce the training data robots need to become genuinely useful in the physical world. The real unlock for Physical AI might not be another bigger model. It might be better data.

1/7 Physical AI has a data problem. More compute alone won’t teach a robot how to move, grasp, react, or recover from mistakes. LLMs had the entire internet to learn from. Robots need something different: huge amounts of real action data. That’s where Axis Robotics gets interesting. $AXIS is building a data engine for Physical AI, turning robot training into something people can contribute to directly through a browser. The loop is straightforward: Generate → Collect → Process → Deploy → Correct → Repeat. What looks simple on the surface could become something much bigger underneath: a scalable way to produce the training data robots need to become genuinely useful in the physical world. The real unlock for Physical AI might not be another bigger model. It might be better data.

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18,903 views • 9 days ago

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Collecting data is a PAAAAAAAIN❗ If only there were a solution out there... (𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 😱) Jannik Grothusen, researchers and founder in stealth mode 👀 from TU Munich, has created a new tool that helps collect data for robots to learn how to perform tasks. It’s inspired by a device from Stanford, but it’s even better! Here’s why: ✅ It can collect and process data in real-time, meaning no delays. ✅ It’s super easy to control, so collecting data is much faster and simpler. ✅ It can be used with different robot parts because of its smart, modular design. Best of all, this amazing tool is 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲, so anyone can use it or improve it! Github: The system is inspired by Cheng Chi; Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI). Credit: Jannik Grothusen

Ilir Aliu

47,397 views • 1 year ago

🔥 JUST IN: Open-source robotics dataset from 100% real-world scenarios! 🤯 Chinese robotics company AGIBOT just released AGIBOT WORLD 2026, an open-source dataset systematically covering key embodied AI research directions. Built entirely from real-world environments: commercial spaces, and homes. Collected using AGIBOT G2 robots in free-form collection mode, providing structured, accurately annotated, high-quality data. Digital twin technology creates 1:1 scale replicas in simulation matching the real environments. Both real-world and simulation data are open-sourced. The AGIBOT G2 platform collects multiple data types simultaneously: RGB(D) cameras, tactile sensors, force sensors, LiDAR, IMU, and full-body joint states. Whole-body control coordinates arms, waist, and hands for complex tasks. First-person teleoperation lets operators control the robot from its perspective. The tasks covered are fine-grained manipulation, ultra-long-horizon tasks, spatial navigation, dual-arm coordination, and multi-agent/human-robot collaboration. The dataset includes error-recovery trajectories with annotations. Most datasets only show successful demonstrations. AGIBOT includes failures and how the robot recovers, teaching models how to handle mistakes. After collection, data is tested through policy training and real-robot deployment to ensure quality. Then processed through industrial quality control with multiple screening and cleaning rounds. Making it open-source accelerates embodied AI research by giving researchers access to high-quality real-world robot data at scale. 🇨🇳 Learn more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

🔥 JUST IN: Open-source robotics dataset from 100% real-world scenarios! 🤯 Chinese robotics company AGIBOT just released AGIBOT WORLD 2026, an open-source dataset systematically covering key embodied AI research directions. Built entirely from real-world environments: commercial spaces, and homes. Collected using AGIBOT G2 robots in free-form collection mode, providing structured, accurately annotated, high-quality data. Digital twin technology creates 1:1 scale replicas in simulation matching the real environments. Both real-world and simulation data are open-sourced. The AGIBOT G2 platform collects multiple data types simultaneously: RGB(D) cameras, tactile sensors, force sensors, LiDAR, IMU, and full-body joint states. Whole-body control coordinates arms, waist, and hands for complex tasks. First-person teleoperation lets operators control the robot from its perspective. The tasks covered are fine-grained manipulation, ultra-long-horizon tasks, spatial navigation, dual-arm coordination, and multi-agent/human-robot collaboration. The dataset includes error-recovery trajectories with annotations. Most datasets only show successful demonstrations. AGIBOT includes failures and how the robot recovers, teaching models how to handle mistakes. After collection, data is tested through policy training and real-robot deployment to ensure quality. Then processed through industrial quality control with multiple screening and cleaning rounds. Making it open-source accelerates embodied AI research by giving researchers access to high-quality real-world robot data at scale. 🇨🇳 Learn more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

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