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Universal Manipulation Interface

Universal Manipulation Interface is a data collection and policy learning framework that allows direct skill transfer from in-the-wild human demonstrations to deployable robot policies.

UMI
NameUMI
Full NameUniversal Manipulation Interface: In-The-Wild Robot Teaching Without In-The-Wild Robots
ArxivLink
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Publication DateFebruary 2024
AuthorsCheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Chuer Pan, Eric Cousineau, Benjamin Burchfiel, Siyuan Feng, Russ Tedrake, Shuran Song

The UMI paper was novel for several reasons:

  1. It completely avoids robot teleoperation and the associated latency. This lets the robot do things like reliably tossing balls.
  2. It provides a low-cost, scalable way to collect lots of data in the wild