The Humanoid Hub(@TheHumanoidHub):UMI, but for humanoid hands. UMI-style capture already works great for simple grippers. For a high-DOF hand, where the action space is huge and contact force carries the important signal, matching the data collector to the hand matters even more. Chestnut just announced that pair: Aero Hand, an 18-DOF human-sized dexterous hand (tendon/linkage hybrid, tested for 3M+ cycles), and Aero UMI, a wearable exoskeleton whose kinematics exactly matches the robotic hand, with direct per-joint angle sensing accurate to 0.1°. Zero embodiment gap for human data collection. Doubles as a teleop rig.

2026.09.28 19:39

UMI, but for humanoid hands. UMI-style capture already works great for simple grippers. For a high-DOF hand, where the action space is huge and contact force carries the important signal, matching the data collector to the hand matters even more. Chestnut just announced that pair: Aero Hand, an 18-DOF human-sized dexterous hand (tendon/linkage hybrid, tested for 3M+ cycles), and Aero UMI, a wearable exoskeleton whose kinematics exactly matches the robotic hand, with direct per-joint angle sensing accurate to 0.1°. Zero embodiment gap for human data collection. Doubles as a teleop rig.