UCLA roboticist's wild idea of swapping human hands for robot hands leads to TRIMI
DennisHongRobot · x · 2026-11-10
UCLA robotics professor DennisHong teases TRIMI (CoRL 2026): since human and robot hands differ, robots struggle to learn from human demos. His joking question — "what if we cut off our hands and replaced them with robot hands?" — led to the system, which reportedly does three things, to be revealed in follow-ups.
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