Hand-held skill interface enables portable data collection for dexterous robot hands

DexPort records executed commands from the same hand hardware used at deployment, and policies trained on those commands lift average task success from 11% to 64%.

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Amber Xie · Jiawei Fu · Xiaofeng Guo · Carmelo Sferrazza · Guanya Shi · Haozhi Qi

Amazon FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics) · Stanford University · UC San Diego

Research Digest··3 min read
Illustration: Hand-held skill interface enables portable data collection for dexterous robot hands
The authors present DexPort, a hand-held interface for collecting demonstrations for high-degree-of-freedom robot hands.

DexPort reuses the deployment hand's hardware and control interface, so each demonstration records native commanded joint targets and resulting states.

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