Dominique Nowak Lab Recruits for Open Source UMI-like Gripper Project
DominiqueCAPaul · x · 2026-08-26
Dominique Nowak announced that @ginokreis will be joining the team to work on a bachelor's thesis in the coming months. The project will focus on developing UMI-like (Universal Manipulation Interface) grippers, and the results will be open-sourced.
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