--- title: Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data description: Grabette is an open-source, low-cost handheld gripper system (~490€ BOM) designed to record robot manipulation demonstrations without needing an actual robot.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/grabette-an-open-system-to-record-robot-manipulation-data-h8hju0i38 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data | daily.dev og:description: Grabette is an open-source, low-cost handheld gripper system (~490€ BOM) designed to record robot manipulation demonstrations without needing an actual robot.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/grabette-an-open-system-to-record-robot-manipulation-data-h8hju0i38 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h8hjU0I38.png og:image:alt: Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data **[Hugging Face](https://daily.dev/sources/huggingface)** · 6 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grabette is an open-source, low-cost handheld gripper system (~490€ BOM) designed to record robot manipulation demonstrations without needing an actual robot. It uses two cameras (fisheye + RGBD/depth) and an IMU to capture 6-DoF trajectories, then processes recordings automatically via a browser-based pipeline that runs SLAM, converts data to LeRobot format, and uploads datasets to the Hugging Face Hub. The companion Gripette (~120€) is the motorized gripper that executes learned policies on a robot arm. The project is fully open source (hardware CAD, software, pipeline) and robot-agnostic. The broader goal is to crowdsource a large, diverse manipulation dataset that any lab or individual can contribute to, lowering the barrier from 'I have a task' to 'I have a training-ready dataset.' ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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