Grabette: Open System for Recording Robot Manipulation Data

The Pollen Robotics team has introduced Grabette—an open, low-cost system for recording manipulation demonstrations that does not require a robot. The device is a handheld gripper with cameras, enabling the collection of training-ready datasets in LeRobot format. The project aims to build a large publicly available manipulation database.

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Simulation for Physical AI: A Review

Gathering data for physical AI in the real world is a slow, expensive, and risky process. Simulation enables generating large volumes of photorealistic physical data through GPU parallelism. This article reviews popular simulation engines: MuJoCo, MuJoCo Warp, NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, as well as the new physics engine Newton, developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research.

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