Song Shuran: robotics data bottleneck is reusability, not quantity

At an ETH talk, Song Shuran argued the robotics data bottleneck is reusability, not quantity—600GB from a week of collection may be unusable. His UMI approach uses a handheld gripper with a GoPro to collect portable data, augmented with audio and force per channel.

2026-10-13 ~ 2026-10-13 · 2 related posts

• Shuran Song's UMI recipe: handheld gripper + GoPro, then add sound, force and hands one channel at a time — le_james94 · 2026-10-13
• Shuran Song: robot data is not a quantity problem — a week of pick-and-place logs 600GB yet is nearly useless elsewhere — le_james94 · 2026-10-13