HandUMI.
Collect robot training data without the robot. Record demonstrations with your own hands, anywhere; each episode retargets to multiple robot platforms. No leader arm, no robot in the loop. And when you do want one, the same hardware teleoperates it directly.
works with quest / pico
Collect data anywhere
HandUMI mounts on your hand and records everything a policy needs: SE(3) wrist pose from a VR headset, no offline SLAM step; true gripper width measured by a servo encoder, not estimated from images; and wrist-view fisheye video.
Around 8× cheaper than a bimanual leader-follower rig, and with no robot to haul you collect where the task happens: kitchen, warehouse, field.
A better way to teleoperate
The same units double as a teleoperation interface: your hands drive AgileX PiPER or OpenArm directly, with no leader arms to buy per operator. Natural pinch control makes precision work tractable, like plugging USB-C into a keyboard, notoriously hard with leader-follower puppeteering.
Episode control is hands-free: say “start recording”, recognized offline, and work with both hands busy.
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What you get
- Two assembled and calibrated units: fisheye camera, servo gripper, swappable fingertips, power supply, and USB-C cabling
- Open-source software pipeline: capture, calibration review, validation, replay, retargeting
- Robot-agnostic episodes for PiPER, OpenArm, TRLC-DK1, I2RT YAM, Metal Arm, and other parallel-jaw arms; datasets come out LeRobot-compatible
- Teleoperation on AgileX PiPER and OpenArm, with hands-free voice control that works offline
Tracking runs on a Meta Quest or PICO 4 Ultra, which you supply; we do not sell headsets. One headset serves any number of units, so if you own one already, you are set.
Prices in USD. Flat $30 shipping per order, delivery in 7 to 15 business days; import duties not included. Questions? Write to us.