PolyUMI wins Best Device Track at CoRL UMI Arena: open visual-tactile-audio rig
GeorgiaChal · x · 2026-11-15
PolyUMI won Best Device Track at the CoRL 2026 UMI Arena workshop. Built by Northwestern, TU Darmstadt and collaborators, it's an open-source platform for scalable visual-tactile-audio demonstration collection and robot deployment: a lightweight wireless handheld gripper records synchronized wrist-camera, optical tactile, contact-audio and proprioceptive data without a tethered workstation. The same sensing finger transfers to the robot end effector, preserving sensing geometry between demonstration and policy execution. The team also introduces VisTA, a token-level multimodal model for learning contact-rich manipulation from these heterogeneous observations.
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