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Hugging Face releases Grabette, an open system for recording robot manipulation data

Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data

What happened

Hugging Face has released Grabette, a low-cost, open-source handheld gripper system for recording robot-manipulation demonstrations without a robot or teleoperation rig. It has a wide-angle fisheye camera and an RGB-D camera for policy-view recording and 6-DoF trajectory tracking, respectively. The hardware bill of materials is about €490; the companion robot-side gripper, Gripette, costs about €120.

Why it matters

The source describes the full open pipeline from handheld-gripper recording to LeRobot datasets, helping readers assess how the barrier to collecting manipulation data is changing.

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