yumi: a hacky $50 UMI gripper for YAM robots to collect, train and deploy
k7agar · x · 2026-10-23
k7agar and collaborators built yumi, a hacky $50 UMI-style handheld gripper for YAM robot arms (camera excluded — borrowed from another YAM). Workflow: collect demonstration data quickly → visualize → train & deploy. A low-cost, open approach to robot imitation-learning data collection.
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