Proud to share what our team and I have been building over the past few months — TwinDEX: a twinned system with two co-designed three-finger dexterous manipulators, one wearable for data collection, one for robot deployment. Identical kinematics, identical contact surfaces,… Show more

No on-robot training data. Yet the robot autonomously completed a 24-step chemistry experiment. X Square just unveiled TwinDEX: a matched pair of 3-finger, 9-DoF manipulation interfaces. One is wearable, used by humans to collect demonstrations. The other is deployed… Show more

Seeing that completing long horizon tasks is a data problem -- that with good tools like these co-designed isomorphic dexterous data collection tools, you can accomplish long horizon tasks with less data than we might have expected

A lot of robot learning pipelines treat embodiment mismatch as a software problem. Collect data with one device, retarget the motion to another robot, and try to deal with the differences later. TwinDEX flips that idea around. This system is from a Chinese robotics company… Show more

Robot data doesn’t always scale just by collecting more data. A Chinese robotics team is exploring a different approach: TwinDEX, using a wearable data-collection device paired with structurally matched dexterous robot hardware. This allows humans to demonstrate complex tasks… Show more

I used to assume a more human-like robot hand would always be the better design. TwinDEX from a Chinese robotics team made me reconsider that. Their system uses three fingers rather than trying to replicate a full five-finger hand. And honestly, for robot learning, that makes… Show more